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
Perkins, Dwight H. "Central Planning: East Asia's Experience." Social Capability and Long-Term Economic Growth. Ed. Koo, Bon Ho and Dwight H. Perkins. Springer, 2016.
Koo, Bon Ho, and Dwight H. Perkins, eds. Social Capability and Long-Term Economic Growth. Springer, 2016.
Jorgenson, Dale W., and Khuong M. Vu. "The Impact of ICT Investment on World Economic Growth." Telecommunications Policy 40.5 (May 2016): 381-382.
Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol. "Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 8.2 (May 2016): 125-153.
Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol. "Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 8.2 (May 2016): 125-153.
Clark, William C., Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Louis Lebel, and Gilberto C. Gallopin. "Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development." PNAS 113.17 (April 26, 2016): 4570–4578.
Clark, William C., Thomas P. Tomich, Meine van Noordwijk, David Guston, Delia Catacutan, Nancy M. Dickson, and Elizabeth McNie. "Boundary Work for Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)." PNAS 113.17 (April 26, 2016): 4615-4622.
Mukerji, Shobhini, and Michael Walton. "Learning the Right Lessons." India Infrastructure Report 2012: Private Sector in Education, April 2016.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Preface for Special Issue Honoring Gregory Chow." Frontiers of Economics in China 11.1 (March 2016): 1-6.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Timothy Cheston, Miguel Ángel Santos, and Carlo Pietrobelli. "Towards a Prosperous and Productive Chiapas: Institutions, Policies, and Public-Private Dialog to Promote Inclusive Growth." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-047, March 2016.
Collins, Ross D., Noelle E. Selin, Olivier L. de Weck, and William C. Clark. "Using Inclusive Wealth for Policy Evaluation: Application to Electricity Infrastructure Planning in Oil-Exporting Countries." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-010, March 2016.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Frank Neffke. "The Workforce of Pioneer Plants." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series and CID Working Paper (RWP16-006 and 310), February 2016.
Clark, William C., Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Louis Lebel, and Gilberto Gallopin. "Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-005, January 2016.
Rodrik, Dani. "The Elusive Promise of Structural Reform: The Trillion-Euro Misunderstanding." Milken Institute Review. 2016.
Andrews, Matthew, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock. "Doing Problem Driven Work." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-073, December 2015.
Andrews, Matthew, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock. "The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-074, December 2015.
Das, Veena, and Michael Walton. "Political Leadership and the Urban Poor." Current Anthropology 56 (October, 2015): S44-S54.
Andrews, Matthew. "Has Sweden Injected Realism into Public Financial Management Reforms in Partner Countries?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-063, October 2015.
Rodrik, Dani. Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Juma, Calestous. The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Levy, Dan, Ricardo Hausmann, Miguel Angel Santos, Luis Espinoza, and Miguel Flores. "Why is Chiapas Poor?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-049, July 2015.
Chen, Martha. "Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre." Review of Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre, by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui. Gender & Development, 23.2, July 2015: 394-397.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "Recent Declines in Labor’s Share in US Income: A Neoclassical Account." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-034, July 2015.
Bold, Tessa, Kayuki C. Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Low Quality, Low Returns, Low Adoption: Evidence from the Market for Fertilizer and Hybrid Seed in Uganda." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-033, June 2015.
Campante, Filipe R., and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130.2 (May 2015): 615-658.
Parker, Richard. "Greece on the Razor's Edge." The American Prospect. April 22, 2015.
Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol. "Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-019, April 2015.
Dobbie, Will and Jae Song. "Debt Relief and Debtor Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Consumer Bankruptcy Protection." American Economic Review 105.3 (March 2015): 1272-1311.
Eichengreen, Barry, Wonhyuk Lim, Yung Chul Park, and Dwight H. Perkins. The Korean Economy: From Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future. Harvard University Press, 2015.
Callen, Michael, Jean Imbs, and Paolo Mauro. "Pooling Risk Among Countries." Journal of International Economics (January 2015).
Rodrik, Dani. "When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, World Views, and Policy Innovations." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28.1 (Winter 2014): 189-208.
Allen, Franklin, Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, Shahrokh Fardoust, Dani Rodrik, Andrew Steer, and Arvind Subramanian. Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century. Oxford, 2014.
Perkins, Dwight H. "China's Future Performance and Development Challenges." The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China. Ed. Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-jin Wei, and Xiaobo Zhang. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Chen, Martha. "Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion." The European Journal of Development Research 26.4 (September 2014): 397-418.
John, Prachitha, Ashwin Mahalingam, Akash Deep, and A. Thillairajan. "Impact of Private Sector Participation on access and quality of services: systematic review of evidence from the electricity, telecommunications and water supply sectors." Journal of Development Effectiveness 7.1 (2015): 64-89.
Woolcock, Michael. "Culture, Politics, and Development." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-041, September 2014.
Woolcock, Michael. "Engaging with Fragile and Conflict-Affected States." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-038, July 2014.
Hanna, Rema, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 129.3 (August 2014): 1311-1353.
Chow, Gregory, and Dwight H. Perkins, eds. Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Economy. Routledge, 2014.
Perkins, Dwight H. "The Centrally Planned Economy (1949-1984)." Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Economy. Ed. Gregory Chow and Dwight H. Perkins. Routledge, 2014, 41-54.
Andrews, Matthew, Marco Cangiano, Neil Cole, Paolo de Renzio, Philipp Krause, and Renaud Seligmann. "This Is PFM." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-034, July 2014.
Chen, Martha, Roopa Madhav, and Kaplana Sharma. "Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases." The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations 50.1 (July 2014): 133-150.
Chen, Martha, and Caroline Skinner. "The Urban Informal Economy: Enhanced Knowledge, Appropriate Policies and Effective Organization." The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. Ed. Susan Parnell, and Sophie Oldfield. Routledge, 2014.
Andrews, Matthew. "Why Distributed End Users Often Limit Public Financial Management Reform Success." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-026, May 2014.
Duan, Peijun, and Anthony Saich. "Reforming China's Monopolies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-023, May 2014.
Chen, Martha. "Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges." WIEGO Working Paper (Statistics) No. 2, April 2014.
Chen, Martha. "Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers." Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, April 2014.
Pritchett, Lant, Kunal Sen, Sabyasachi Kar, and Selim Raihan. "Trillions Gained and Lost: Estimating the Magnitude of Growth Episodes." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-016, March 2014.
Rodrik, Dani. "Green Industrial Policy." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 30.3 (2014): 469-491.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Brad Cunningham, John Matovu, Rosie Osire, and Kelly Wyett. "How Should Uganda Grow?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-004, February 2014.