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
Apgar, William, and Kermit Baker. "The Evolving Home Building Industry and Implications for Consumers." Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W06-2, 2006.
Braga, Anthony A. "The Crime Prevention Value of Hot Spots Policing." Psicothema 18.3 (2006): 630-637.
Wilson, William Julius. "Foreword." The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950. Ed. Francille Rusan Wilson. University of Virginia Press, 2006.
G贸mez-Ib谩帽ez, Jos茅 A, and Gin茅s de Rus, eds. Competition in the Railway Industry: An International Comparative Analysis. Edward Elgar, 2006.
Howell, William G., and Paul E. Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell. The Education Gap: Vouchers And Urban Schools, Revised Edition. Brookings Institution, 2006.
Fiorina, Morris P., Paul E. Peterson, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer. The New American Democracy, 5th Edition. Pearson/Longman, 2006.
Peterson, Paul E., ed. Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. Hoover Institution, 2006.
Peterson, Paul E. "The A+ Plan." Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. Ed. Paul E. Peterson. Hoover Institution, 2006.
Peterson, Paul E., Nathan Torinus and Brad Smith. "School Choice in Milwaukee Fifteen Years Later." Charter Schools Against the Odds: An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K鈥12 Education. Ed. Paul T. Hill. Education Next Books, 2006.
Peterson, Paul E. "Productivity of Public and Private Schools." Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm our Children. Ed. Eric Hanushek. Hoover Press, 2006.
Wilson, William Julius, and Richard P. Taub. There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. Knopf, 2006.
Elliott, Delbert S., Scott Menard, Bruce Rankin, Amanda Elliott, David Huizinga, and William Julius Wilson. Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
G贸mez-Ib谩帽ez, Jos茅 A. "An Overview of the Options." Competition in the Railway Industry: An International Comparative Analysis. Ed. Jos茅 A. G贸mez-Ib谩帽ez and Gin茅s de Rus. Edward Elgar, 2006.
Newhouse, Joseph P. Review of Aggregation and the Measurement of Health Care Costs, by Thomas Getzen. Health Services Research, 41.5, October 2006: 1955-1958.
Ferguson, Ronald. "Toward Skillful Parenting and Transformed Schools Inside a National Movement for Excellence with Equity." First Educational Equity Symposium of the Campaign for Educational Equity, Columbia Teachers College, October 2005.
Borjas, George. "Immigration Trends in the New York Metropolitan Area." Economic Policy Review (December 2005): 91-101.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Urban Colossus: Why New York is America's Largest City." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review 11.2 (December 2005): 7-24.
Ferguson, Ronald. "The Working-Poverty Trap." The Public Interest (No. 158) Winter 2005.
Newhouse, Joseph P. 鈥淢edicare鈥檚 Challenges in Paying Providers.鈥 Health Care Financing Review, 27.2 (Winter 2005-2006): 35-44.
Rosenthal, Meredith, Alan Zaslavsky, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "The Geographic Distribution of Physicians Revisited." Health Services Research 40.6 Part I (December 2005): 1931-1952.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Medicare's Challenges in Paying Providers." Health Care Financing Review 27.2 (Winter 2005-2006): 35-44.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "The Wage Effect." Boston Globe, November 11, 2005: A23.
Cook, Philip J., Jens Ludwig, Sudhir A. Venkatesh, and Anthony A. Braga. "Underground Gun Markets." NBER Working Paper 11737, November 2005.
Braga, Anthony A., and Glenn L. Pierce. "Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets in Boston: The Effects of Operation Ceasefire on the Supply of New Handguns to Criminals." Criminology and Public Policy 4.4 (November 2005): 717-748.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Inequality." Harvard Institute of Economic Research, NBER, and KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-056, October 2005.
Berry, Christopher R., and Edward L. Glaeser. "Divergence of Human Capital Levels across Cities." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-057, October 2005 (also NBER Working Paper 11617).
Braga, Anthony A. "Analyzing Homicide Problems: Practical Approaches to Developing a Policy-Relevant Description of Serious Urban Violence." Security Journal 18.4 (2005): 17-32.
Skinner, Jonathan, Amitabh Chandra, Douglas Staiger, Julie Lee, and Mark McClellan. "Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals That Disproportionately Treat Black Patients." Circulation 112.17 (October 2005): 2634-2641.
Glaeser, Edward L., Joseph Gyourko, and Raven Saks. "Why is Manhattan So Expensive?: Regulation and the Rise of House Prices." Journal of Law and Economics 48.2 (October 2005): 331-370.
Duflo, Esther, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag, and Emmanuel Saez. "Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block." NBER Working Paper No. 11680, October 2005.
Peterson, Paul E. "Education's Hidden Scandal: Schools Often Conceal High Dropout Rates for Minority Students." Charlotte Observer, September 27, 2005.
Braga, Anthony A. and Christopher Winship. "Creating an Effective Foundation to Prevent Youth Violence: Lessons Learned from Boston in the 1990s." Rappaport Institute Policy Brief PB-2005-5, September 26, 2005.
Liebman, Jeffrey. 鈥淪ocial Security Meets Race.鈥 Science, 309.5743, September 23, 2005: 1965.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Should the Government Rebuild New Orleans, Or Just give Residents Checks?" The Economists' Voice September 21, 2005.
Braga, Anthony A. "Hot Spots Policing and Crime Prevention: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials." Journal of Experimental Criminology 1.3 (September 2005): 317-342.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors?" Regulation 28.3 (Fall 2005): 24-31.
Borjas, George. "Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration." NBER Working Paper 11610, September 2005.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Andrew A. Samwick. "Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance." NBER Working Paper Series 11605, September 2005.
Wilson, William Julius. "The New Economy and Racial Opportunity." Continuing Higher Education Review 69 (Fall 2005): 42-49.
Augustine, Charles, Joseph Cavicchi, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Gradualism in Retail Restructuring." Electric Light & Power September/October 2005: 26.
Glaeser, Edward L., Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Strategic Extremism: Why Democrats and Republicans Divide on Religious Values." Quarterly Journal of Economics 120.4 (2005): 1283-1330.
Dynarski, Susan. "Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-050 (also NBER Working Paper No. W11604), August 2005.
Dehejia, Rajeev, Thomas DeLeire, and Erzo F.P. Luttmer. "Insuring Consumption and Happiness through Religious Organizations." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-047 (also NBER Working Paper No. W11576), August 2005.
Kaushal, Rainu, David Blumenthal, Eric G. Poon, Ashish K. Jha, Calvin Franz, Blackford Middleton, John Glaser, Gilad Kuperman, Melissa Christino, Rushika Fernandopulle, Joseph P. Newhouse, David W. Bates, and the Cost of National Health Information Network Working Group. "The Costs of a National Health Information Network." Annals of Internal Medicine 143.3 (August 2, 2005): 165-173.
Luttmer, Erzo F.P. "Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being." Quarterly Journal of Economics 120.3 (August 2005): 963-1002.
Reed, Mary, Vicki Fung, Richard Brand, Bruce Fireman, Joseph P. Newhouse, Joseph V. Selby, and John Hsu. "Care-Seeking Behavior in Response to Emergency Department Copayments." Medical Care 43.8 (August 2005): 810-816.
Kling, Jeffrey R., Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Lawrence F. Katz. "Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects." NBER Working Paper No. 11577, August 2005.
Jacob, Brian A., and Lars Lefgren. "What Do Parents Value in Education? An Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-043 (also NBER Working Paper 11494), July 2005.
Augustine, Charles, Joseph Cavicchi, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Competition and Regulation in the Power Industry: Can the Two Coexist?" Electric Light & Power July/August 2005: 28.
Jacob, Brian A., and Lars Lefgren. "Principals as Agents: Subjective Performance Measures in Education." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-040 (also NBER Working Paper 11463), June 2005.