Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia." April 2022.
Balland, Pierre-Alexandre, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato, Elisa Giuliani, Ricardo Hausmann, Neave O'Clery, and David Rigby. "The new paradigm of economic complexity." Research Policy 51.3 (April 2022): 104450.
Ganguli, Ina, Jamal I. Haidar, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Samuel W. Stemper, and Basit Zafar. "Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2022.
Sturzenegger, Federico, and Nicolas Der Meguerditchian. "A Balance-Sheet Model of Fiscal Policy in Namibia." Red Nacionale de Investigadores en Economia (RedNIE), April 2022.
Mayne, Quinton, and Alexia Katsanidou. "Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis." European Journal of Political Research (March 2022): 1-19.
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics. Ed. Katharine G. Abraham , Ron S. Jarmin , Brian C. Moyer and Matthew D. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 249-274.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Angel Santos, Douglas Barrios, Nikita Taniparti, Jorge Tudela Pye, and Jessie Lu. "The Economic Complexity of Namibia: A Roadmap for Productive Diversification." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, March 2022.
O’Brien, Tim, Thao-Nguyên Bùi, Ermal Frasheri, Fernando Garcia, Farah Hani, Eric Protzer, Ricardo Villasmil, and Ricardo Hausmann. "What Will It Take for Jordan to Grow?" CID Faculty Working Papers Series, March 2022.
Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla, and Carmen M. Reinhart. "Shining a Light on Debt." Finance & Development 59.001 (March 2022): 10-13.
Reinhart, Carmen M. "From Health Crisis to Financial Distress." IMF Economic Review 70.1 (March 2022): 4-31.
Biasi, Barbara, David Deming, and Petra Moser. "Education and Innovation." The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth. Ed. Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 537-558.
Chen, Martha, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Michael Rogan, Marcela Valdivia, Laura Alfers, Jenna Harvey, Ana Carolina Ogando, Sarah Orleans Reed, and Sally Roever. "COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities." International Labour Review 161.1 (March 2022): 29-58.
Furman, Jason. "The Economic Consequences of the Ukraine War." Project Syndicate. February 25, 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Fighting the Last Inflation War." Project Syndicate, February 24, 2022.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Kate Markin Coleman. Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development. Brookings Institution Press, 2022.
Austin, James, Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Ed. Peter Gianiodis, Maritza Espina, and William R Meek. World Scientific, 2022, 175-196.
Domash, Alex, and Lawrence H. Summers. "How Tight Are U.S. Labor Markets?" NBER Working Paper Series, February 2022.
Djankov, Simeon, Edward Glaeser, Valeria Perotti, and Andrei Shleifer. "Property Rights and Urban Form." The Journal of Law and Economics 65.1 (February 2022): S35-S64.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Angel Santos, Douglas Barrios, Nikita Taniparti, Jorge Tudela Pye, Jose Francisco Muci, and Jessie Lu. "A Growth Diagnostic of Namibia." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, February 2022.
Horn, Sebastian, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. "Hidden Defaults." World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper Series, February 2022.
Sarin, Natasha, Lawrence Summers, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick. "Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform." Tax Policy and the Economy 36 (2022): 1-33.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Federico Sturzenegger, Patricio Goldstein, Frank Muci, and Douglas Barrios. "Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, January 2022.
Jensen, Anders. "Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System." American Economic Review 112.1 (January 2022): 213-234.
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Zhi Liu, eds. Infrastructure economics and policy: international perspectives. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021.
Basri, M. Chatib, Mayara Felix, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Tax Administration versus Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia." American Economic Review 111.12 (December 2021): 3827-3871.
Taylor, Charles A., and James Rising. "Tipping point dynamics in global land use." Environmental Research Letters 16.12 (December 2021): 125012.
Ash, Elliott, Sharun W. Mukand, and Dani Rodrik. "Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-032, November 2021.
Rodrik, Dani. "A Primer on Trade and Inequality." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-031, November 2021.
Schlenker, Wolfram, and Charles A. Taylor. "Market expectations of a warming climate." Journal of Financial Economics 142.2 (November 2021): 627-640.
Bachas, Pierre, Lucie Gadenne, and Anders Jensen. "Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-026, October 2021.
Greenspon, Jacob, and Dani Rodrik. "A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals." NBER Working Paper Series, October 2021.
Chen, Martha, and Françoise Carré. Review of Informal Women Workers in the Global South: Policies and Practices for the Formalisation of Women's Employment in Developing Economies, ed. Jayati Ghosh. Gender & Development, 29.2-3, 09/02/2021: 684-687.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Amy Finkelstein, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Arianna Ornaghi, and Sudarno Sumarto. "The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance." American Economic Review 11.9 (September 2021): 3035-3063.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Santos, Corrado Macchiarelli, and Renato Giacon. "What economic complexity theory can tell us about the EU’s pandemic recovery and resilience plans." LSE Blog. August 30, 2021.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Randy Kotti. "The Virus, Vaccination, and Voting." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-021, August 2021.
Borjas, George, and Hugh Cassidy. "The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic." August 2021.
Anderson, Weston, Charles A. Taylor, Sonali McDermid, Elisabeth Ilboudo-Nébié, Richard Seager, Wolfram Schlenker, Fabien Cottier, Alex de Sherbinin, Dara Mendeloff, and Kelsey Markey. "Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa." Nature Food 2.8 (August 2021): 603-615.
Diao, Xinshen, Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan, and Dani Rodrik. "Africa’s Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-018, July 2021.
Glaeser, Edward L., and James Poterba. "Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment." Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz. Aspen Institute Press, 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Carlo Pietrobelli, and Miguel Angel Santos. "Place-specific determinants of income gaps: New sub-national evidence from Mexico." Journal of Business Research 131 (July 2021): 782-792.
Chen, Martha, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Mike Rogan, and Marcela Valdivia. "COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World." Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), July 2021.
Jorgenson, Dale W., and Khuong M. Vu. "The G20 and the World Economy: Performance and Prospects." Journal of Policy Modeling 43.4 (July/August 2021): 770-782.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "America’s False Imbalance Syndrome." The Project Syndicate, June 2021.
Woolcock, Michael, David Lewis, and Dennis Rodgers. "The Sounds of Development: Musical Representations as (An)other Source of Development Knowledge." Journal of Development Studies 57.8 (June 2021): 1397-1412.
Furman, Jason, Melissa Kearney, and Wilson Powell III. "How Much Have Childcare Challenges Slowed the US Jobs Market Recovery?" Peterson Institute for International Economics, May 2021.
Ang, Yu Qian, Andrew Chia, and Soroush Saghafian. "Using Machine Learning to Demystify Startups’ Funding, Post-Money Valuation, and Success." Innovative Technology at the Interface of Finance and Operations. Ed. Volodymyr Babich, John R. Birge, and Hilary Gilles. Springer, Cham, 2022, 271-296.
Nedelkoska, Ljubica, Andre Assumpcao, Ana Grisanti, Matte Hartog, Julian Hinz, Jessie Lu, Daniela Muhaj, Eric Protzer, Annalee Saxenian, and Ricardo Hausmann. "The Role of the Diaspora in the Internationalization of the Colombian Economy." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, May 2021.
Masoud, Tarek, A.Kadir Yildirim, and Peter Mandaville. "Will the Pandemic Spark a Religious Revival in the Muslim World?" Washington Post. April 2, 2021.
Woolcock, Michael. "The Social Life of Articles: Some Reflections on the Making and Impact of ‘Social Capital and Economic Development’." Theory and Society 50.3 (April 2021): 381-392.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Eric Protzer, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti. "Economic Complexity Report for Western Australia." CID Working Paper Series, April 2021.