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
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.
Deming, David, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence Summers. "Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market." Strengthening America’s Economic Dynamism. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Luke Pardue. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 2024.
Autor, David, and David Deming. "Lawrence F. Katz (1959–)." The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics. Ed. Cord, Robert A.. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Borjas, George, and Hugh Cassidy. "The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics. Ed. Polachek, Solomon W., and Konstantinos Tatsiramos. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Hanson, Gordon. "The G20’s Role in Fostering Trade and Investment." New Normal, New Technology, New Financing. Ed. Ing, Lili Yan, and Dani Rodrik. ERIA and IEA, 2022, 64-75.
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics. Ed. Katharine G. Abraham , Ron S. Jarmin , Brian C. Moyer and Matthew D. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 249-274.
Biasi, Barbara, David Deming, and Petra Moser. "Education and Innovation." The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth. Ed. Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 537-558.
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cathy Hu. "Exploring the Causal Mechanisms Linking Pretrial Detention and Future Penal System Involvement." Handbook on Pretrial Justice. Ed. Christine S. Scott-Hayward, Jennifer E. Copp, and Stephen Demuth. Routledge, 2022, 88-109.
Glaeser, Edward L., and James Poterba. "Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment." Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz. Aspen Institute Press, 2021.
Bane, Mary Jo. "A House Divided." American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism. Ed. Gary J. Adler, Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks. Fordham University Press, 2019.
Wilson, William Julius. "Multiracial Cooperation." Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk. Ed. Eric Klinenberg, Sharon Marcus, and Caitlin Zaloom. Columbia University Press, 2019.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Children on the Move in the Twenty-First Century: Developing a Rights-Based Plan of Action." Humanitarianism and Mass Migration: Confronting the World Crisis. University of California Press, 2019.
Chandra, Amitabh, Benjamin Handel, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets." Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Applications and Foundations. North-Holland, 2019, 459-502.
Shepard, Mark, Timothy Layton, and Alice Ndikumana. "Health Plan Payment in Medicaid Managed Care: A Hybrid Model of Regulated Competition." Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing, and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets: Theory and Practice. Ed. Thomas McGuire and Richard van Kleef. Elsevier, 2018.
Shepard, Mark, Timothy Layton, and Ellen Montz. "Health Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces: Regulated Competition with a Weak Mandate." Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing, and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets: Theory and Practice. Ed. Thomas McGuire and Richard van Kleef. Elsevier, 2018.
McGuire, Thomas G., and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Medicare Advantage: Regulated Competition in the Shadow of a Public Option." Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Market. Academic Press, 2018, 563-598.
Risse, Mathias. "Human Rights as Membership Rights in World Society." Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder. Ed. Silja Voeneky and Gerald Neuman. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Risse, Mathias, and John W. Meyer. "Thinking about the World: Philosophy and Sociology." Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? Perspectives Integrating Philosophy and Social Science. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Wilson, William Julius. "Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto." Inequality: Classic Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Ed. David Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi. Routledge, 2018, 87-102.
Harding, David J., Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer. "Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961–1999." The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Ed. David Grusky. Routledge, 2019.
Shoag, Daniel. "Land Use Regulations and Fertility Rates." One Hundred Years of Zoning and the Future of Cities. Springer, 2018.
Chandra, Amitabh, Tyler Hoppenfeld, and Jonathan Skinner. "Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging?" Insights in the Economics of Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2017, 205-226.
Chen, Martha, and Rachel Moussie. "Turning a Blind Eye to Women in the Informal Economy." The IMF and Gender Equality: A Compendium of Feminist Macroeconomic Critiques. Bretton Woods Project, 2017.
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Du The Huynh. "Vietnam." The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies. Ed. Dorina Pojani and Dominic Stead. Springer, 2017.
Borjas, George. "Low-Skill Immigration." The US Labor Market: Questions and Challenges for Public Policy. Ed. Strain, Michael R. AEI Press, 2016, 152-165.
Chen, Martha, and Frances Lund. "Overcoming Barriers and Addressing Gender Dimensions in Universal Health Care for Informal Workers: Lessons from India and Thailand." Social Protection for Informal Workers in Asia. Ed. Sri Wening Handayani. Asian Development Bank, 2016.
Sinaiko, Anna D., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Forced to Choose, Again: The Effects of Defaults on Individuals in Terminated Health Plans." Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics. Ed. Cohen, I. Glenn, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher T. Robertson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016, 326-338.
Lerner, Jennifer S. "Psychologists in Schools of Public Policy." Career Paths in Psychology. Ed. Sternberg, R.J.. APA Press, September 2016, 103-118.
Fang, Hai, Karen N. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, Scott Rozelle, and Richard Zeckhauser. "The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law." Policy Challenges from Demographic Change in China and India. Ed. Karen Eggleston. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2016.
Farber, Henry S., and Bruce Western. "Can Increased Organizing Reverse the Decline of Unions in the United States?" The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation. Ed. Wunnava, Phanindra V.. Routledge, 2016, 323.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Urban Ecology as the New Planning Paradigm: Another Legacy of Jane Jacobs." Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary. Ed. Schubert, Dirk. Routledge, May 13, 2016, 225-232.
Wilson, William Julius. "Urban Poverty, Race, and Space." The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty. Ed. Brady, David, and Linda M. Burton. Oxford University Press, 2016, 394-413.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "The Use of Experiments in Health Care." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Ed. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Borjas, George, and Kirk. B. Doran. "How High-Skill Immigration Affects Science: Evidence from the Collapse of the USSR." Innovation Policy and the Economy. Ed. William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. NBER, 2015.
Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Performance Measurement in a Modern Police Organization." New Perspectives in Policing. National Institute of Justice and Program in Criminal Justice, Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School, 2014.
Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Managing the Boundary between Public and Private Policing." New Perspectives in Policing. National Institute of Justice and Program in Criminal Justice, Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School, 2014.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Introduction." Moral Hazard in Health Insurance. Ed. Amy Finkelstein. Columbia University Press, December 2014.
Kellerman, Barbara, and Deborah Rhode. "Women at the Top: The Pipeline Reconsidered." Women and Leadership in Higher Education. Ed. Karen Longman and Susan Madsen. Information Age Publishing, 2014.
Ferguson, Ronald, and Charlotte Danielson. "How Framework for Teaching and Tripod 7Cs Evidence Distinguish Key Components of Effective Teaching." Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems: New Guidance form the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. Ed. Thomas J. Kane, Kerri A. Kerr, and Robert C. Pianta. Jossey-Bass, July 2014.
Ferguson, Ronald, and Eric Hirsch. "How Working Conditions Predict Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes." Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems: New Guidance form the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. Ed. Thomas J. Kane, Kerri A. Kerr, and Robert C. Pianta. Jossey-Bass, July 2014.
Chen, Lincoln, Jennifer Ryan, and Tony Saich. "Introduction: Philanthropy for Health in China: Distinctive Roots and Future Prospects." Philanthropy for Health in China. Ed. Jennifer Ryan, Lincoln C. Chen, and Tony Saich. Indiana University Press, 2014, 1-15.
Wilson, William Julius. "More Than Just Race, Being Black and Poor in the Inner City." America’s Growing Inequality The Impact of Poverty and Race. Ed. Chester Hartman. Lexington Books, 2014.
Wilson, William Julius. "De Quel Ghetto The Wire Parle-t-elle?" The Wire, L'Amerique Sur Ecoute. Ed. Marie-Hélène Bacqué. La Découverte, March 2014.
Sparrow, Malcolm K. "What Does It Mean to be a Risk-based Regulator?" Beyond Finance - Financial Supervision in the 21st Century. Dutch National Bank Occasional Series, March 2014, 9-14.
Juma, Calestous. "Technology and the Reinvention of Education in Africa." Technology in Africa—2014 Digest. Ed. Tefo Mohapi. iafrikan.com, February 2014.
Wilson, William Julius. "Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces." Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. Ed. David B. Grusky. Westview Press, January 2014.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Wealth and the Self-Protection Society." In 100 Years: Leading Economists Predict the Future. Ed. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta. MIT Press, 2014.
Applbaum, Arthur Isak. "Bayeseian Inference and Contractualist Justification on Interstate 95." Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, 2nd Edition. Ed. Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman. Wiley, 2014, 219-231.
Chen, Martha. "Women in Informal Employment." Toolkit: Learning and Working in the Informal Economy. Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit, 2014.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "The Economics of Medical Care." Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 19th edition. Ed. Dennis L. Kasper, Anthony S. Fauci, Stephen L. Hauser, Dan L. Longo, J. Larry Jameson, and Joseph Loscalzo. McGraw Hill, 2013, 15e.