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
Zhang, Yuting, Seo Hyon Baik, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Use Of Intelligent Assignment To Medicare Part D Plans For People With Schizophrenia Could Produce Substantial Savings." Health Affairs 34.3 (March 2015): 454-460.
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.
Peterson, Paul E. "No Child Left Behind and Testing Help Hold Schools Accountable." Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2015.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "How Much Selection Is Left in Medicare Advantage?" American Journal of Health Economics 1.1 (Winter 2015): 1-26.
Chingos, Matthew M., and Paul E. Peterson. "Experimentally Estimated Impacts of School Vouchers on College Enrollment and Degree Attainment." Journal of Public Economics 122 (February 2015): 1-12.
Hanna, Rema, and Paulina Oliva. "The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City." Journal of Public Economics 122 (February 2015): 68-79.
Chandra, Amitabh, Julia Thornton Snider, Wu Yanyu, Anupam Jena, and Dana Goldman. "Robot-Assisted Surgery For Kidney Cancer Increased Access To A Procedure That Can Reduce Mortality And Renal Failure." Health Affairs 34.2 (February 2015): 220-228.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Coming of AIDS." Pangyrus, January 28, 2015.
Peterson, Paul E. "A Rescue Plan for the Black Family." New York Daily News, January 19, 2015.
Chandra, Amitabh, Dhruv Khullar, and Thomas Lee. "Addressing the Challenge of Gray-Zone Medicine." New England Journal of Medicine 372.3 (January 2015): 203-205.
Pager, Devah, and David S. Pedulla. "Race, Self-Selection, and the Job Search Process." American Journal of Sociology 120.4 (January 2015): 1005-1054.
Jennings, Jennifer L., David Deming, Christopher Jencks, Maya Lopuch, and Beth E. Schueler. "Do Differences in School Quality Matter More Than We Thought? New Evidence on Educational Opportunity in the Twenty-first Century." Sociology of Education 88.1 (January 2015): 56-82.
Monroe, Burt L., Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts, Maya Sen, and Betsy Sinclair. "No! Formal Theory, Causal Inference, and Big Data Are Not Contradictory Trends in Political Science." PS: Political Science & Politics 48.1 (January 2015): 71-74.
Monroe, Burt L, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E Roberts, Maya Sen, and Betsy Sinclair. "No! Formal Theory, Causal Inference, and Big Data Are Not Contradictory Trends in Political Science." PS: Political Science and Politics 48.1 (January 2015): 71-74.
Cortes, Kalena, Joshua Goodman, and Takako Nomi. "Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra." Journal of Human Resources 50.1 (Winter 2015): 108-158.
Hehir, J. Bryan, Peterson, Rodney and Twiss, Barney, eds. Religion and Public Policy: Human Rights, Conflict and Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pritchett, Lant, and Amanda Beatty. "Slow Down, You’re Going Too Fast: Matching Curricula to Student Skill Levels." International Journal of Educational Development 40 (January 2015): 276-288.
Snellman, Kaisa, Jennifer M. Silva, Carl B. Frederick, and Robert D. Putnam. "The Engagement Gap: Social Mobility and Extracurricular Participation among American Youth." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 657.1 (January 2015): 194-207.
Sen, Maya. "Is Justice Really Blind? Race and Appellate Review in U.S. Courts." Journal of Legal Studies 44.S1 (January 2015): S187-S229.
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.
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.
Sanghavi, Prachi, Anupam B. Jena, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Alan M. Zaslavsky. "Outcomes After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Treated by Basic vs Advanced Life Support." JAMA Internal Medicine 174.12 (December 2014).
Levy, Dan, and Josh Bookin. "Cold Calling and Web Postings: Do They Improve Students’ Preparation and Learning in Statistics?" Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 14.5 (December 2014): 92-109.
Ayanian, John, Bruce Landon, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Alan Zaslavsky. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities among Enrollees in Medicare Advantage Plans." New England Journal of Medicine 371.24 (December 2014): 2288-2297.
Wright Rigueur, Leah. The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. "The Political Legacy of American Slavery." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-057, December 2014.
Clark, Robert L., Joseph P. Newhouse, and David M. Cutler. "Health Insurance and the American Public Sector Labor Market." Journal of Health Economics 38 (December 2014): 62-64.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Introduction." Moral Hazard in Health Insurance. Ed. Amy Finkelstein. Columbia University Press, December 2014.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "The Fire This Time." NewBlackMan (in Exile), November 27, 2014.
Avery, Christopher. "The Amherst Telementoring Program for High-Achieving, Low-Income Students: Results of a Pilot Study with a Randomized Controlled Trial." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-055, November 2014.
Goldman, Dana, Amitabh Chandra, and Darius Lakdawalla. "It’s Easier to Measure the Cost of Health Care than Its Value." Harvard Business Review. November 18, 2014.
Wilson, William Julius. "The Travails of Urban Field Research." Review of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman, and This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, by Zandria F. Robinson. Contemporary Sociology, 43.6, November 2014: 824-828.
Bilmes, Linda J. "A Call for a National Strategy on Veterans." Cognoscenti, November 11, 2014.
Hausmann, Ricardo. "Gender Gap Report 2014." World Economic Forum, November 2014.
Chen, Christopher, Gabriel Scheffler, and Amitabh Chandra. "Readmission Penalties and Health Insurance Expansions: A Dispatch from Massachusetts." Journal of Hospital Medicine 9.11 (November 2014): 681–687.
Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja. "Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-052, October 2014.
Wernerfelt, Nils, David Slusky, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-050, October 2014.
Rogers, Todd, Katherine L. Milkman, and Kevin G. Volpp. "Commitment Devices: Using Initiatives to Change Behavior-Reply." The Journal of the American Medical Association 312.15 (October 2014): 1592-1593.
Kraft, Matthew A., and Todd Rogers. "The Underutilized Potential of Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Evidence from a Field Experiment." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-049, October 2014.
Jencks, Christopher. "On America's Front Lines." Review of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman. The New York Review of Books, 61.15, October 9, 2014: 34-36.
Wilson, William Julius. "Marginality, Ethnicity and Penality: A Response to Loïc Wacquant." Ethnic & Racial Studies 37.10 (October 2014): 1712-1718.
Yasaitis, Laura C., Thomas Bubolz, Jonathan Skinner, and Amitabh Chandra. "Local Population Characteristics and Hemoglobin A1c Testing Rates among Diabetic Medicare Beneficiaries." PLoS ONE 9.10 (October 2014): 1-8.
Cohodes, Sarah R., and Joshua S. Goodman. "Merit Aid, College Quality, and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6.4 (October 2014): 251-285.
Stevenson, David G., Stacie B. Dusetzina, A. James O'Malley, Susan L. Mitchell, Barbara J. Zarowitz, Michael E. Chernew, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Haiden A. Huskamp. "High-Risk Medication Use by Nursing Home Residents Before and After Hospitalization." Medical Care 52.1 (October 2014): 884-890.
Frey, Erin, and Todd Rogers. "Persistence: How Treatment Effects Persist After Interventions Stop." Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1.1 (October 2014): 172-179.
Peterson, Paul E. "How the Education Spendthrifts Get Away With It." Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 09/22/2014.
Goodman, Joshua, Michael Hurwitz, Jonathan Smith, and Julia Fox. "The Relationship Between Siblings’ College Choices: Evidence from One Million SAT-Taking Families." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-043, September 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.
Goodman, Joshua. "The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure, and Human Capital Accumulation." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28.4 (Fall 2014): 193-212.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Susan Crawford. The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance. Jossey-Bass, 2014.