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
Hanson, Gordon H., and Matthew J. Slaughter. "America Needs More Immigration to Defeat Inflation." Foreign Affairs (December 19, 2022).
Kalt, Joseph P. "American Indian Self-Determination Through Self-Governance: The Only Policy That Has Ever Worked." Testimony before the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, December 15, 2022.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "How to save the WTO with more flexible trading rules." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs, December 2022.
Saghafian, Soroush. "Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø 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." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø 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?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-027, December 2022.
Borjas, George, and David J. G. Slusky. "Health, Employment, and Disability: Implications from the Undocumented Population." American Journal of Health Economics 8.1 (Winter 2022): 1-29.
Chandra, Amitabh, Jennifer Kao, Kathleen L. Miller and Ariel D. Stern. "Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-024, December 2022.
Kreider, Amanda R., Timothy J. Layton, Mark Shepard and Jacob Wallace. "Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices: Evidence from Medicaid." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-025, December 2022.
Carlana, Michela, and Lucia Corno. "Shaping gender-stereotypical beliefs: the role of parents and peers." IFS Working Paper Series, December 2022.
MartÃnez Orbegozo, Eva Flavia, Jorrit de Jong, Hannah Riley Bowles, Amy Edmondson, Anahide Nahhal, and Lisa Cox. "Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations." The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 58.4 (December 2022): 595-645.
Moore, Don A., and Max H. Bazerman. "Leadership & overconfidence." Behavioral Science & Policy 8.2 (2022): 59-69.
Khachiyan, Arman, Anthony Thomas, Huye Zhou, Gordon Hanson, Alex Cloninger, Tajana Rosing, and Amit K. Khandelwal. "Using Neural Networks to Predict Microspatial Economic Growth." American Economic Review: Insights 4.4 (December 2022): 491-506.
Wolff, Alan Wm., Robert Z. Lawrence, and Gary Clyde Hufbauer. "Have trade agreements been bad for America?" Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs, December 2022.
Kakani, Pragya, Michael Chernew and Amitabh Chandra. "The Contribution of Price Growth to Pharmaceutical Revenue Growth in the U.S.: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 47.6 (December 2022): 629-648.
Sevtsuk, Andres, Rounaq Basu, Dylan Halpern, Anne Hudson, Kloe Ng, and Jorrit de Jong. "A tale of two Americas: Socio-economic mobility gaps within and across American cities before and during the pandemic." Cities 131 (December 2022): 104006.
Gilman, Hollie Russon, Archon Fung, and Mark Schmitt. "Designing for Community Engagement: Toward More Equitable Civic Participation in the Federal Regulatory Process." Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; New America, December 2021.
Glaeser, Edward L., Caitlin S. Gorback, and James M. Poterba. "How Regressive are Mobility-Related User Fees and Gasoline Taxes?" NBER Working Paper Series, December 2022.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Ian Goldin. "Urban Rebirth: Economic Considerations for Reconstruction in Kharkiv and Ukraine." December 2022.
Smith, Sandra Susan. "How Pretrial Incarceration Diminishes Individuals' Employment Prospects." Federal Probation 86.3 (December 2022): 11-18.
Jay, Jonathan, Felicia Heykoop, Linda Hwang, Jorrit de Jong, and Michelle Kondo. "Use of smartphone mobility data to analyze city park visits during the COVID-19 pandemic." Landscape and Urban Planning 228 (December 2022): 104554.
Aiyar, Yamini, Rolf Alter, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics." Public Sector Economics Journal (December 2022): 456-458.
Kalt, Joseph P., Amy Besaw Medford, and Jonathan B. Taylor. "Economic and Social Impacts of Restrictions on the Applicability of Federal Indian Policies to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Research Report, December 2022.
Corno, Lucia, Eliana La Ferrara, and Justine Burns. "Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa." American Economic Review 112.12 (December 2022): 3848-3875.
Cunningham, Edward. "Jiang Zemin Propelled China’s Economic Rise in the World, Leaving his Successors to Deal with the Massive Inequality that Followed." The Conversation, December 1, 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Let the WTO Referee Carbon Border Taxes." Project Syndicate, November 29, 2022.
Schafer, Benjamin C., Jong-hyoung Kim, Joost J. Vlassak, and David W. Keith. "Analytical models for the design of photophoretically levitating macroscopic sensors in the stratosphere." November 2022.
Wang, Huiyao, and Joseph S. Nye. "Power Shifts in the Twenty-First Century." Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century: CCG Global Dialogues. Ed. Huiyao Wang, and Lu Miao. Springer Nature, 2022, 131-145.
Atkinson, Mariam K., and Soroush Saghafian. "Who Should See the Patient? On Deviations from Preferred Patient-Provider Assignments in Hospitals." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-037, November 2022.
Hanson, Gordon H., Pia Orrenius, and Madeline Zavodny. "US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-023, November 2022.
Rosengard, Jay K. "The World’s Best-Kept Financial Inclusion Secret Revealed: The Untold Success Story of BRI Microbanking Since 1895." Ash Center Policy Briefs Series, November 2022.
Hankinson, Michael and Justin de Benedictis Kessner. "How Self-Interest and Symbolic Politics Shape the Effectiveness of Compensation for Nearby Housing Development." November 18, 2022.
Saghafian, Soroush, Linda D. Song, Joseph P. Newhouse, Mary Beth Landrum, and John Hsu. "The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery: Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-031, November 2022.
Deep, Akash, Mojahedul Islam Nayyer, and Thillai Rajan A. "The performance of PPP and publicly procured road projects: evidence from India." Assessing the Performance Advantage of Public-Private Partnerships. Ed. Stefan Verweij, Ingmar van Meerkerk, and Carter Casady. Edward Elgar, 2022, 156-183.
Bazerman, Max H. Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. Princeton University Press, 2022.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Discontents of Truth & Trust in 21st Century America." Daedalus 151.4 (Fall 2022): 25-42.
Andrabi, Tahir, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja. "Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-020, November 2022.
Ho, Lisa Y., Emily Breza, Marcella Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Fatima Cody Stanford, Renato Fior, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Louis-Maël Jean, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, and Esther Duflo. "The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-021, November 2022.
Yemiscigil, Ayse, Dana Born, Scott Snook, and Emily Pate. "Authentic leader(ship) development and leaders' psychological well-being: an outcome-wide analysis." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 43.8 (2022): 1287-1307.
Kim, Jong-hyoung, Lishuai Jin, Benjamin C. Schafer, Quan Jiao, Katia Bertoldi, David W. Keith, and Joost J. Vlassak. "Ultralight and ultra-stiff nano-cardboard panels: mechanical analysis, characterization, and design principles." November 2022.
Ribeiro, Andre F., Frank Neffke, and Ricardo Hausmann. "What Can the Millions of Random Treatments in Nonexperimental Data Reveal About Causes?" SN Computer Science 3.6 (November 2022): 421.
Wang, Huiyao, Graham Allison, and Chen Li. "Thucydides’s Trap Revisited: Prospects for China–US Relations." Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century. Ed. Huiyao Wang, and Lu Miao. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Cuddy, Brian, and Fredrik Logevall, eds. The Vietnam War in the Pacific World. UNC Press, 2022.
Chenoweth, Erica, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Stephen P. Roll, and Matthew V. Zahn. "Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?" NBER Working Paper Series, November 2022.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Christopher Wiley Shay. "Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.1." Journal of Peace Research 59.6 (November 2022): 876-889.
Chenoweth, Erica. "Gandhi's Century." Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges. Ed. Howard, Veena R.. Lexington Books, 2022, 47-64.
Costa, Priscila, Andréia Cascaes Cruz, Annelise Alves, Martinez Calazans Rodrigues, and Ronald Ferguson. "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children and their caregivers." Child: care, health and development 48.6 (November 2022): 1001-1007.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Reflections on the post-Covid city." Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 15.3 (November 2022): 747-755.
Bai, Jie, Ludovica Gazze, and Yukun Wang. "Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry." The Review of Economics and Statistics 104.6 (November 2022): 1121-1137.
Harknett, Kristen, and Daniel Schneider. "Mandates Narrow Gender Gaps In Paid Sick Leave Coverage For Low-Wage Workers In The US." Health Affairs 41.11 (November 2022): 1575-1582.