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
Woods, Tyler, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Estimating the Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Worker Outcomes in the US Service Sector, 2017-2023." SSM-Population Health 31 (September 2025): 101830.
Norris, Pippa. "Professors are the enemy: Two faces of academic freedom." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP25-004, July 2025.
Jacoby, Ryan J., Dalton L. Klare, Caroline H. Armstrong, Susanne S. Hoeppner, Jennifer Lerner, and Sabine Wilhelm. "Risk-aversion with both high and low ambiguity: Elevated OCD symptom severity and intolerance of uncertainty are associated with less risk-taking in an OCD patient sub-sample." Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 46 (July 2025): 100955.
Abrams, Leah, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "New Technology, Older Workers: How Workplace Technology is Associated with Indicators of Job Retention." Journal of Aging & Social Policy (June 2025).
Lynn, Jonathan, Rachel Y. Kim, Sicun Gao, Daniel Schneider, Sachin S. Pandya, and Min Kyung Lee. "Regulating Algorithmic Management: A Multi-Stakeholder Study of Challenges in Aligning Software and the Law for Workplace Scheduling." FAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (23 June 2025): 547-572.
De Jong, Jorrit, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, Quinton Mayne, and Nick Vachon. "The Data-Informed City: A Conceptual Framework for Advancing Research and Practice." Information Polity (June 22, 2025).
Bloome, Deirdre. "Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms." Sociological Methods & Research (2025).
Walt, Stephen. "Israel Can’t Be a Hegemon." Foreign Policy, June 16, 2025.
Waardenburg, Maurits, Martijn Groenleer, and Jorrit de Jong. "Performance Management in Collaborative Governance: A Review of the Literature and Synthesis of the Challenges." Public Performance & Management Review (16 June 2025): 1-33.
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.
Walt, Stephen. "Ukraine’s Drone Attack Doesn’t Matter." Foreign Policy, June 9, 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.
Aldy, Joseph. "Trump Deregulatory Acts Focus on Costs, Not Overall Well-Being." Environmental Forum, 42.3, May-June 2025, 15.
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. "The Realist Case for Global Rules." Foreign Policy, May 29, 2025.
Moses, Jacob D., J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, and Krishanu Saha. "Introducing Perspectives from the Global Observatory for Genome Editing." The CRISPR Journal (23 May 2025).
Jasanoff, Sheila, et al. "A Reset for Bioethics: A Statement from the Global Observatory for Genome Editing." The CRISPR Journal (22 May 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.
Worsham, Rachel, Elise Swanson, and Christopher Norio Avery. "Going the Distance or Growing More Remote? The Academic Impacts of Course Modality following Pandemic-Era Investments." EdWorkingPaper, May 2025.
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson. "How the China trade shock impacted U.S. manufacturing workers and labor markets, and the consequences for U.S. politics." Washington Center for Equitable Growth (May 2025): 1-20.
Mitter, Rana. "The Once and Future China: How Will Change Come to Beijing?" Foreign Affairs. May/June 2025, 52-65.
Dynan, Karen, and Douglas Elmendorf. "Putting US Fiscal Policy on a Sustainable Path." NBER Working Paper Series, May 2025.
Sun, Shuo, Rafaella Cazé de Medeiros, Julianne D. Brooks, Joseph Newhouse, Lee H. Schwamm, Sebastien Haneuse, and Lidia Moura. "Patterns of Anti-Seizure Medication Non-adherence in Post-Stroke Prophylaxis Among Older Adults." April 25, 2025.
Harley, Alicia G., and William C. Clark. "Building Capacity to Govern Cooperatively in Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Lessons from scholarship and practice." Sustainability Science Program Working Paper Series, April 22, 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.
Ahuja, Ketan, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Industrial policy for competitiveness in the energy transition." Green Intersections: The global embedding of climate change in policy. Ed. Heather Grabbe and Simone Tagliapietra. Brussels: Bruegel Blueprint Series, 2025, 53-74.
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).
Greenspon, Jacob, and Gordon H. Hanson. "Local Energy Access and Industry Specialization: Evidence from World War II Emergency Pipelines." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2025.
Aldy, Joseph. "Significant Health and Economic Costs Come From Wildfire Smoke." Environmental Forum, 42.15, March/April 2025, 15.
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.
Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina, Maria Kuecken, Eliana La Ferrara, and Elsa Artadi. "Understanding Child Sex Trafficking by Use of Victim-Level Data." Economic Development and Cultural Change 73.3 (April 2025): 1501-1526.
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.
Aguirre, Emilie, Julie Yen, and Julie Battilana. "An Organizational Theory of Corporate Law." The Journal of Corporation Law 50.3 (March 31, 2025): 567-616.
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).