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
Zeckhauser, Richard, and W. Kip Viscusi. "Managed Expectations Theory: Ex Ante Likelihoods Influence Ex Post Utilities." RWP25-003, June 2025.
Bhanjdeo, Arundhita, Nivedita Narain, Surili Sheth, and Michael Walton. "Seeing like a State or Seeing the State? A Qualitative Study of a Government Program to Support Women’s Self-Help Groups in Madhya Pradesh, India." RWP25-002, June 2025.
Hodgson, Nicole R., Soroush, Saghafian, Wayne A. Martini, Arshya Feizi, and Agni Orfanourdaki. "Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Emergency Department Vertical Patient Flow Optimization." Journal of Personalized Medicine 15.6 (June 2025): 219.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations." New Dimensions of World Politics. Ed. Geoffrey L. Goodwin, and Andrew Linklater. London: Routledge, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "How Europe Should Deal With Trump." Foreign Policy, May 7, 2025.
Aigner, Ernest, Jacob Greenspan, and Dani Rodrik. "The global distribution of authorship in economics journals." World Development 189 (May 2025): 106926.
Dynan, Karen, and Douglas Elmendorf. "Putting US Fiscal Policy on a Sustainable Path." NBER Working Paper Series, May 2025.
Sweeney, Latanya. "A Systematic Review of the 109,119 Voter Registration Drops in Ohio During the Federal Law’s 90-Day Quiet Period." Technology Science (April 22, 2025): 2025041703.
Sweeney, Latanya, and Josh Visnaw. "Measuring Mistakes: A Data-Driven Assessment of Voter List Maintenance and Erroneous Deletions in Ohio’s 2024 Election." Technology Science (April 22, 2025).
Sweeney, Latanya, and Josh Visnaw. "Efficacy of Text Messaging in Activating Hard-to-Reach Voters in Rhode Island and Ohio." Technology Science (April 22, 2025).
Walt, Stephen. "How the United States Can Regain the World’s Trust." Foreign Policy, April 21, 2025.
Sankaranarayanan, Madhav, Maria Donahue, Shuo Sun, Julianne Brooks, Lee Schwamm, Joseph Newhouse, John Hsu, Deborah Blacker, and Lidia Maria Moura. "Benzodiazepine Initiation Effect on Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Post Acute Ischemic Stroke (P7-14.009)." Neurology 104.7 Supplement 1 (April 8, 2025).
Habib, Mamoon, Rafaella Cazé de Medeiros, Syed Muhammad Ahsan, Aidan McDonald Wojciechowski, Joseph Newhouse, M. Brandon Westover, Lee Schwamm, and Lidia Maria Moura. "A Claims-based Machine Learning Model to Classify Modified Rankin Scale at Stroke Discharge (P6-14.012)." Neurology 104.7 Supplement 1 (April 8, 2025).
Whetsell, Travis A., Mark Prebble, Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Kirstine Zinck Pedersen, Christopher Ansell, Hahrie Han, Patricia M. Shields, Jean Hartley, John Benington, and Mark H. Moore. "Roundtable: Perspectives on The Public." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (7 Apri l2025).
Walt, Stephen. "How to Ruin a Country." Foreign Policy, April 7, 2025.
Donahue, Maria A., Julianne D. Brooks, John Hsu, Mary Price, Deborah Blacker, Lee H. Schwamm, Joseph P. Newhouse, M. Brandon Westover, Sebastien Haneuse, and Lidia M.V.R. Moura. "Differences in patterns of outpatient epilepsy-specific medication initiation after acute ischemic stroke in the Medicare population." Epilepsia (2025 Apr 4).
Weidmann, Ben, Yixian Xu, and David Deming. "Measuring Human Leadership Skills with AI Agents." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2025.
Weidmann, Ben, Yixian Xu, and David J. Deming. "Measuring Human Leadership Skills with AI Agents." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2025.
Bosché, Michelle, Rachel Krust, Archon Fung, and Aditya S. Pawar. "Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement." American Journal of Public Health 115.4 (April 2025): 500-505.
Walt, Stephen. "Asia Is Getting Dangerously Unbalanced." Foreign Policy, April 1, 2025.
Risse, Mathias. "Reflections on Kaplan's Chapter II." Core Assumptions in Business Theory: A Wedge between Performance and Progress. Ed. Subramanian Rangan. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Risse, Mathias. "Reflections on Rajan's and Subrahmanyam's Chapters-II." Core Assumptions in Business Theory: A Wedge between Performance and Progress. Ed. Subramanian Rangan. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Dynan, Karen, and Douglas Elmendorf. "Changes in Racial Gaps in Retirement Security over Time." Reducing Retirement Inequality: Building Wealth and Old-Age Resilience. Ed. Olivia S. Mitchell, and Nikolai Roussanov. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Furman, Jason. "The Post-Neoliberal Delusion And the Tragedy of Bidenomics." Foreign Affairs, March/April 2025.
Bazerman, Max. "An Insider’s Perspective on How to Reduce Fraud in the Social Sciences." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (March 27, 2025).
Palmiano Federer, Julia, Monica Giannone, Brian Mandell, and Elan Kogutt. "Why It Worked: Moving from Success to Effectiveness in Conflict Resolution and Peace Negotiations." Negotiation Journal (2025).
Stock, James H., and Mark W. Watson. "Recovering from COVID." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, March 26, 2025.
Paternina-Caicedo, Angel, Oscar Espinosa, Sangini S. Sheth, Nathaniel Hupert, and Soroush Saghafian. "Excess Mortality Rate in Black Children Since 1950 in the United States: A 70-Year Population-Based Study of Racial Inequalities." Annals of Internal Medicine (25 March 2025).
Sanctions on Venezuela are not Driving Migration to the US Southwest Border: An Empirical Assessment
Bahar, Dany, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Sanctions on Venezuela are not Driving Migration to the US Southwest Border: An Empirical Assessment." Center for Global Development Note, March 24, 2025.
Bradt, Jacob T. and Joseph E. Aldy. "Private Benefits from Public Investment in Climate Adaptation and Resilience." March 24, 2025.
Borjas, George, and Hugh Cassidy. "Immigrant employment during the COVID-19 pandemic." Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19. Ed. Kenneth A. Couch. London: Edward Elgar, 2025.
Rao, Vijayendra, and Michael Woolcock. "Ten Consequential and Actionable ‘Social’ Contributions to the Theory, Practice, and Evaluation of Development." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, March 19, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump Is Not a Revolutionary." Foreign Policy, March 17, 2025.
Battilana, Julie, Christine M. Beckman. and Julie Yen. "On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory." Administrative Science Quarterly (2025).
Elmendorf, Doug. "House to vote on budget to prevent shutdown." LiveNOW on FOX, March 11, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "What I Got Wrong About Trump’s Second Term." Foreign Policy, March 10, 2025.
Sinha, Jayant, Robert Stavins, Jessica Seddon, and Arunabha Ghosh. "Energy, Climate, Growth." Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Growth. Ed. Suman Bery, Kapil Kapoor, and Jean-Louis Arcand. Singapore: Springer, 2025, 1-18.
Lawrence, Robert Z., and Homi Kharas. "Technology, Policy, Jobs; Multilateralism: Geopolitics, Governance, and the Global Commons." Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Growth. Ed. Suman Bery, Kapil Kapoor, and Jean-Louis Arcand. Singapore: Springer, 2025.
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.
Elmendorf, Doug. "What does the House-passed budget resolution mean?" Harvard Kennedy School, March 5, 2025.
Aldy, Joseph E., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Robert N. Stavins. "Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump’s Concert of Kingpins Won’t Work." Foreign Policy, March 3, 2025.
Lipschitz, Jessica M., Sidian Lin, Soroush Saghafian, Chelsea K. Pike, and Katherine E. Burdick. "Digital phenotyping in bipolar disorder: Using longitudinal Fitbit data and personalized machine learning to predict mood symptomatology." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 151.3 (March 2025): 434-447.
Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Simone Matecna. "Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Baum, Matthew A., Adam J. Berinsky, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Joohye Jeong, Zachary Markovich, and Teppei Yamamoto. "Dynamic Persuasion: Decay and Accumulation of Partisan Media Persuasion." March 2025.
Ashraf, Nava, Alexia Delfino, Edward L. Glaeser, and Irene Solmone. "The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Hanson, Gordon, and Enrico Moretti. "Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? Changes in the Geography of Work in the US, 1980-2021." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Gaebler, Johann D., Sharad Goel, Aziz Huq, and Prasanna Tambe. "Auditing large language models for race & gender disparities: Implications for artificial intelligence-based hiring." Behavioral Science & Policy (2025).
Robb, Katharine, Pablo Uribe, Eleanor Dickens, Ashley Marcoux, Jessica Creighton, and Jorrit de Jong. "The Impact of City-Led Neighborhood Action on the Coproduction of Neighborhood Quality and Safety in Buffalo, NY." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22.3 (March 2025): 341.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Is DOGE Sure It Wants to Fire These People?" The Atlantic, March 1, 2025.