Are Vaccination Mandates Government Overreach?
Many may judge that, in the cases of existing compulsory immunization programs and other health-related regulations, the benefits of government intervention outweigh the costs.
Research
The Relative Merits of Carbon Pricing Instruments: Taxes versus Trading
There is widespread agreement among most economists that economy-wide carbon pricing will be a necessary (although not necessarily sufficient) component of any policy that can achieve meaningful and c
Trust in Government Redux: The Role of Information Environments and Cognitive Skills
The concept of trustworthiness can be understood to involve an informal social contract where principals authorize others to act on their behalf in the expectation that the agent will fulfill their re
Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform
We argue the revenue potential from increasing tax rates on capital gains may be substantially greater than previously understood.
The 2021 Digital Services Convening
In June 2021, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the digital transformation consultancy Public Digital hosted the fourth annual Digital Services Convening.
Recommendations for the Allocation and Administration of American Rescue Plan Act Funding for American Indian Tribal Governments
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides the largest infusion of federal funding for Indian Country in the history of the United States.
Assessing the U.S. Treasury Department's Allocations of Funding for Tribal Governments under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ("the Act" or "ARPA") has resulted in the single largest infusion of federal funding for Native America in U.S. history.
Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures
The digital age presents a complex array of opportunities and threats for transnational families.
Tipping point dynamics in global land use
Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification.
Social science research to inform solar geoengineering
As the prospect of average global warming exceeding 1.5°C becomes increasingly likely, interest in supplementing mitigation and adaptation with solar geoengineering (SG) responses will almost certainl
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