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
Linos, Elizabeth, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Vince Dorie, and Jesse Rothstein. "Interventions to Bolster Benefits Take-Up: Assessing Intensity, Framing, and Targeting of Government Outreach." RWP25-001, March 2025.
Tucker-Foltz, Jamie, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Playing Divide-and-Choose Given Uncertain Preferences." RWP22-008, December 2024.
Lecaros, Ignacia, Daniela Paz Cruzat, Ricardo Pommer Muñoz, Pablo Tillan, and Michael Walton. "Can Chile Escape an Inequality Trap? …And Why It Matters for Long-Term Development and Growth." RWP24-008, November 2024.
Aldy, Joseph. "How Big is the “Biggest Climate Spending Bill Ever?” Key Factors Influencing the Inflation Reduction Act’s Clean Energy Impacts." RWP24-007, November 2024.
Linos, Elizabeth, Sanaz Mobasseri, and Nina Roussille. "Intersectional Peer Effects at Work: The Effect of White Coworkers on Black Women's Careers." RWP23-031, July 2024.
Friedman, Jeffrey A., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Strategy Is Only Partly an Illusion: “Relative Foresight” as an Objective Standard for Evaluating Foreign Policy Competence." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP24-004, May 2024.
Chinn, Menzie D., Jeffrey A. Frankel, and Hiro Ito. "The Dollar versus the Euro as International Reserve Currencies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP24-005, March 2024.
Carlana, Michela, and Lucia Corno. "Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP24-006, March 2024.
Baragwanath Vogel, Kathryn, Gordon H. Hanson, Amit Khandelwal, Chen Liu, and Hogeun Park. "Using Satellite Imagery to Detect the Impacts of New Highways: An Application to India." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP24-003, January 2024.
Borjas, George J., and Daniel S. Hamermesh. "The Mismeasurement of Work Time: Implications for Wage Discrimination and Inequality." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP24-002, January 2024.
Obolensky, Marguerite, Marco Tabellini, and Charles Taylor. "Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP24-001, January 2024.
Dickens, Eleanor, Noah Greifer, Katharine Robb, Ashley Marcoux, Jessica Creighton, Charles Allegar, and Jorrit de Jong. "The effects of a place-based intervention on resident reporting of crime and service needs: A frontier matching approach." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-033, December 2023.
Jameson, Jacob, Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman, and Nicole Hodgson. "To Batch or Not to Batch: Test-Ordering Variability in the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-032, November 2023.
Alsan, Marcella, Romaine A. Campbell, Lukas Leister, and Ayotomiwa Ojo. "Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-029, October 2023.
Saghafian, Soroush. "Effective Generative AI: The Human-Algorithm Centaur." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-030, October 2023.
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, and Elizabeth Linos. "Improving delivery of the social safety net: The role of stigma." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-022, November 2022.
Linos, Elizabeth, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Chris Larkin, Lindsay Moore, and Elspeth Kirkman. "The Formality Effect." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-009, January 2023.
Caplin, Andrew, David J. Deming, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Ben Weidmann. "Allocative Skill." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-028, September 2023.
Bachas, Pierre, Matthew Fisher-Post, Anders Jensen, and Gabriel Zucman. "Globalization and Factor Income Taxation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-027, August 2023.
Risse, Mathias. "On the Role of Solar Geoengineering in Combatting Climate Change: Harvard University vs. Indigenous Voices." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-026, August 2023.
Risse, Mathias. "A Radical Reckoning with Cultural Devastation and Its Aftermath: Reflections on Wub-e-ke-niew’s We Have the Right to Exist." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-025, August 2023.
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-009, July 2022.
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Chetty, Raj, David J. Deming, and John N. Friedman. "Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-021, August 2023.
Grossman, Joshua, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay C. Page, and Sharad Goel. "The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-023, August 2023.
Chandra, Amitabh, Carrie H. Colla, and Jonathan S. Skinner. "Productivity Variation and Input Misallocation: Evidence from Hospitals." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-024, August 2023.
Juhász, Réka, Nathan J. Lane, and Dani Rodrik. "The New Economics of Industrial Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-022, August 2023.
Norris, Pippa. "Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-020, July 2023.
Borjas, George, and Anthony Edo. "Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-019, July 2023.
Deming, David. "Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-017, June 2023.
Kreindler, Gabriel, Arya Gaduh, Tilman Graff, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World’s Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-018, June 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Dollar Rivals." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-015, June 2023.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Katherine Levine Einstein, and Maxwell Palmer. "Who Should Make Decisions? Public Perceptions of Democratic Inclusion in Housing Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-016, June 2023.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Diana Da In Lee, Yamil R. Velez, and Christopher Warshaw. "American Local Government Elections Database." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-013, September 2022 (rev. June 2023).
Feizi, Arshya, Agni Orfanoudaki, Soroush Saghafian, and Nicole Hodgson. "Vertical Patient Streaming in Emergency Departments." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-014, May 2023.
Gulesci, Selim, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman, and H. Peyton Young. "A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-013, April 2023.
Rodrik, Dani. "On Productivism." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-012, March 2023.
Deming, David. "Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-011, March 2023.
Andrabi, Tahir, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, Naureen Karachiwalla, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja. "Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-010, January 2023.
Mock, Rozalyn, Megan Willis-Jackson, Bobby Wang, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Linda Bilmes, and Brian Iammartino. "Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-006, January 2023.
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson. "Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-007, January 2023.
Gaduh, Arya, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken. "The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-008, January 2023.
Bonica, Adam, Adam Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-020, January 2023.
Hanson, Gordon H. "Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-005, January 2023.
Alsan, Marcella, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang. "The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-004, January 2023.
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-003, January 2023.
Smith, Sheila D., Joseph P. Newhouse, and Gigi A. Cuckler. "Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the Curve Continue?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-001, January 2023.
Shepard, Mark and Myles Wagner. "Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-002, January 2023.
Saghafian, Soroush. "Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-034, December 2022.
Boloori, Alireza, Soroush Saghafian, and Stephen J. Traub. "Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Human-Based Versus Algorithmic-Based Perceptions, Treatments, and Guidelines." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-026, December 2022.
Orfanoudaki, Agni, Soroush Saghafian, Karen Song, Harini A. Chakkera, and Curtiss B. Cook. "Algorithm, Human, or the Centaur: How to Enhance Clinical Care?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-027, December 2022.