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The White House lawn on a sunny day.
Feature: Is DOGE Sure It Wants to Fire These People?

Juliette Kayyem examines the negative effects that Elon Musks’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could have on the safety of everyday Americans.

River running through a densely populated area.
Feature: Private Benefits from Public Investment in Climate Resilience

Joseph Aldy finds that governmental construction of levees, which enhance resilience to flood risks amplified by climate change, increases home values by 3-4 percent.

Person sits on a bed holding a check.
Feature: Assessing Government Outreach to Bolster Benefits Take-Up

Elizabeth Linos finds that light-touch interventions significantly, consistently, and cost-effectively increase benefits take-up among low-income households, while higher-touch proactive outreach yields minimal additional take-up.

Black family happily sits on the grass in a park.
Feature: Excess Mortality Rate in U.S. Black Children Since 1950

Soroush Saghafian finds that 5 million excess deaths of Black Americans, including over 500,000 infants, could have been avoided over the past 70 years if their mortality rates were equal to those of White Americans.

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

Social science research to inform solar geoengineering

Joseph E. Aldy, Tyler Felgenhauer, William A. Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Mariia Belaia, Mark E. Borsuk, Arunabha Ghosh, Garth Heutel, Daniel Heyen, Joshua Horton, David Keith, Christine Merk, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Jesse L. Reynolds, Katharine Ricke, Wilfried Rickels, Soheil Shayegh, Wake Smith, Simone Tilmes, Gernot Wagner, and Jonathan B. Wiener. "Social science research to inform solar geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (2021): 815-818.

Keep Climate Policy Focused on the Social Cost of Carbon

Aldy, Joseph, Matthew Kotchen, Robert N. Stavins, and James H. Stock. "Keep Climate Policy Focused on the Social Cost of Carbon." Science 373.6557 (August 2021): 850-852.

Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy

Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-022, July 2020.

Policy Surveillance: Its Role in Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluating and Learning

Aldy, Joseph. "Policy Surveillance: Its Role in Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluating and Learning." Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? Ed. Harro van Asselt, Johanna Forster, David Huitema, and Andy Jordan. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 210-229.

Real World Headwinds for Trump Climate Change Policy

Aldy, Joseph. "Real World Headwinds for Trump Climate Change Policy." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 73.6 (October 2017): 376-381.

The Political Economy of Carbon Pricing Policy Design

Aldy, Joseph. "The Political Economy of Carbon Pricing Policy Design." Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, October 2017.

Policy Surveillance in the G20 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Agreement: Lessons for Climate Policy

Aldy, Joseph. "Policy Surveillance in the G20 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Agreement: Lessons for Climate Policy." Climatic Change 144.1 (September 2017 (first online September 2015)): 97-110.

Economic Tools to Promote Transparency and Comparability in the Paris Agreement

Aldy, Joseph, William Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Lara Aleluia Reis, Keigo Akimoto, Geoffrey Blanford, Carlo Carraro, Leon E. Clarke, James Edmonds, Gokul C. Iyer, Haewon C. McJeon, Richard Richels, Steven Rose, Fuminori Sano. "Economic Tools to Promote Transparency and Comparability in the Paris Agreement." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series, August 2016.

Evaluating Mitigation Effort: Tools and Institutions for Assessing Nationally Determined Contributions

Aldy, Joseph. "Evaluating Mitigation Effort: Tools and Institutions for Assessing Nationally Determined Contributions." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-068, November 2015.

Policy Surveillance in the G-20
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Agreement: Lessons for Climate
Policy

Aldy, Joseph E. "Policy Surveillance in the G-20 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Agreement: Lessons for Climate Policy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-029, June 2015.

Pricing Climate Risk Mitigation

Aldy, Joseph. "Pricing Climate Risk Mitigation." Nature Climate Change 5 (April 2015): 396-398.

The Crucial Role of Policy Surveillance in International Climate Policy

Aldy, Joseph. "The Crucial Role of Policy Surveillance in International Climate Policy." Climatic Change 126.3/4 (October 2014): 279-292.

Comparability of Effort in International Climate Policy Architecture

Aldy, Joseph, and William A. Pizer. "Comparability of Effort in International Climate Policy Architecture." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-006, February 2014.

Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars

Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars." Science 337.6098 (August 2012): 1043-1044.

Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change

Aldy, Joseph. "Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-017, May 2012.

A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package

Aldy, Joseph. "A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP11-048, December 2011.