Searching for Work with a Criminal Record
People with a criminal record face substantial demand-side employment barriers that have clear implications for whether or not they search for work and what strategies they use.
Research
Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to group performance.
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and how We Can Do it Again
In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that
The Federal Fisc
Long before the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, Harvard Magazine asked several faculty experts to write about issues that would be shaped by the national elections, that mattered to
The Impact of Medicare’s Mental Health Cost-Sharing Parity on Use of Mental Health Care Services: An Assessment of Whether Medicare Cost-Sharing Reductions for Outpatient Mental Health Services Was As
Before the implementation of cost-sharing parity in Medicare, beneficiaries faced higher cost sharing for mental health services than for other medical services.
Imagined Worlds: The Politics of Future-Making in the 21st Century
This book inquires into the use of prediction at the intersection of politics and academia, and reflects upon the implications of future-oriented policy-making across different fields.
Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood.
Reopening Scenarios
We use a five-age epidemiological model, combined with 66-sector economic accounting, to address a variety of questions concerning the economic reopening.
Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law
This essay introduces a collection of articles gathered under the theme of “law, science, and constitutions of life.” Together, they explore how revolutions in notions of what biological life is are e
Economics after Neoliberalism: Introducing the EfIP Project
The tools of contemporary economics are critical to developing a policy framework for "inclusive prosperity," which requires that we consider the whole distribution of outcomes and human prosperity br
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