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
Dynarski, Susan. "Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion." American Economic Review 93.1 (March 2003): 279-288.
Apgar, William, and Emily Whiting. "Essential Function Bonds: An Emerging Tool for Affordable Housing Finance." KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP03-015, March 2003.
Apgar, William, and Emily Whiting. "Essential Function Bonds: An Emerging Tool for Affordable Housing Finance." Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W03-2, February 2003.
Peterson, Paul E. "The Changing Politics of Federalism." Evolving Federalisms: The Intergovernmental Balance of Power in America and Europe. Ed. Craig Parsons and Alasdair Roberts. Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, 2003, 25-42.
Harding, David J., and Christopher Jencks. "Changing Attitudes toward Premarital Sex: Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects." Public Opinion Quarterly 67.2 (Summer 2003): 211-226.
Jencks, Christopher, and Gary Burtless. "American Inequality and Its Consequences." Agenda for the Nation. Ed. Henry Aaron, James Lindsay, and Pietro Nivola. Brookings Institution, 2003.
Light, Richard J. "Writing and Students' Engagement." Peer Review 6.1 (Fall 2003).
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Accounting for Teaching Hospitals' Higher Costs and What to Do About Them." Health Affairs 22.6 (November-December 2003): 126-129.
Fernandopulle, Rushika, Timothy Ferris, Arnold Epstein, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse, Gary Pisano, and David Blumenthal. "Bridging the Gap: A Research Agenda for Crossing the 'Quality Chasm'." Health Affairs 22.2 (March-April 2003): 178-190.
Peterson, Paul E. "Schools After 20 Years." Current 454 (July-August 2003): 7-9.
Peterson, Paul E., and Martin R. West, eds. No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of School Accountability. Brookings Institution, 2003.
Fiorina, Morris P., Paul E. Peterson, and D. Stephen Voss. America's New Democracy, 2nd edition. Pearson, 2003.
Peterson, Paul E., ed. The Future of School Choice. Hoover Institution, 2003.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance, by Harold L. Wilensky. Political Science Quarterly, 118.2 Summer 2003.
Liebow, Elliot, William Julius Wilson, and Charles Lemert. Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men, 2nd edition. Rowman, 2003.
Wilson, William Julius. "The Woes of the Inner City African-American Father." Black Fathers in Contemporary American Society: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Strategies for Change. Ed. Obie Clayton, Ronald B. Mincy, and David Blankenhorn. Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.
Peterson, Paul E. "What's Next for School Vouchers." Dice Report: Journal for Institutional Comparisons 1.4 (Winter 2003): 57-61.
Dorgan, Kathleen, and Ronald Ferguson. "Success Factors in Community-Wide Initiatives for Youth Development." The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities. Ed. Stephen F. Hamilton and Mary Agnes Hamilton. Sage, 2003.
Ballantine, John, and Ronald Ferguson. "Plastic Manufacturers: How Competitive Strategies and Technology Decisions Transformed Jobs and Increased Pay Disparity Among Rank-and-File Workers." Low Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace. Ed. Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt, and Richard J. Murnane. Sage, 2003.
G贸mez-Ib谩帽ez, Jos茅 A. Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts and Discretion. Harvard University Press, 2003.
Katz, Lawrence, Jeffrey Kling, and Jeffrey Liebman. "The Early Impacts of Moving to Opportunity in Boston." Choosing a Better Life? Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment. Ed. John M. Goering and Judith D. Feins. Urban Institute, 2003.
Altshuler, Alan, and David Luberoff. Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Brookings Institution, 2003.
Peterson, Paul E. Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk? Hoover Institution, 2003.
Jacob, Brian A. "High Stakes in Chicago: Are Chicago's Rising Test Scores Genuine?" Education Next 3.1 (Winter 2003).
Peterson, Paul E. "Ticket to Nowhere: Student Achievement Remains Minimal." Education Next 3.2 (Spring 2003).
Borjas, George. "Immigration." Encyclopedia of Population. Ed. Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll. Macmillan, 2003.
Cullen, Julie, Brian A. Jacob, and Steven D. Levitt. 鈥淭he Impact of School Choice on Enrollment and Achievement: Evidence from 1,000+ Randomized Lotteries.鈥 NBER Working Paper 10113, 2003.
Ogura, Seiritsu, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise, eds. Labor Markets and Firm Benefits Policies in Japan and the United States. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Poterba, James M., Joshua Rauh, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise. "Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Savings Accounts." NBER Working Paper #9892, 2003.
Eichner, Matthew J., Mark B. McClellan, and David A. Wise. "Individual Expenditures and Medical Savings Accounts: Can They Work?" Labor Markets and Firm Benefits Policies in Japan and the United States. Ed. Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Samwick, Andrew A., and David A. Wise. "Option Value Estimation with Health and Retirement Study Data." Labor Markets and Firm Benefits Policies in Japan and the United States. Ed. Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Borjas, George. "Welfare Reform and Immigrant Population in Welfare Programs." Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants. Ed. Jeffrey G. Reitz. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2003, 289-325.
Borjas, George. "Wage Structures and the Sorting of Workers into the Public Sector." For the People: Can We Fix Public Service? Ed. John D. Donohue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.. Brookings Institution, 2003, 29-54.
Borjas, George. "Does Welfare Reduce Poverty?" Working Paper, January 2003.
Jacob, Brian A., and Stephen D. Levitt. "Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating." Quarterly Journal of Economics 118.3 (2003): 843-877.
Jacob, Brian A., and Lars Lefgren. "Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration, and Juvenile Crime." American Economic Review 93.5 (2003): 1560-1577.
Jacob, Brian A. "Getting Inside Accountability: Lessons from Chicago." Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2003. Ed. William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack. Brookings Institution, 2003.
Jacob, Brian A., and Stephen D. Levitt. "Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory." Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2003. Ed. William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack. Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
Jacob, Brian A. "A Closer Look at Achievement Gains Under High-Stakes Testing in Chicago." No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of School Accountability. Ed. Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West. Brookings Institution, 2003.
Wilson, William Julius. "Poverty, Joblessness, and the Social Transformation of the Inner City." Inside Urban Politics: Voices from America's Cities and Suburbs. Ed. Dick Simpson. Longman, 2003.
Wilson, William Julius. "Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods." The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (2nd Edition). Ed. Tracey E. Ore. McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Ferguson, Ronald. 鈥淲hat Doesn鈥檛 Meet the Eye: Understanding and Addressing Racial Achievement Gaps in High Achieving Suburban School Systems.鈥 Congressional Seminar Presentation Transcript, Consortium of Social Science Organizations (COSSA), 2003.
Glaeser, Edward L., ed. The Governance of Not-For-Profit Organizations. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Wise, David A. "Program Report: The Economics of Aging." NBER Reporter, Summer 2003.
Wise, David A. "Introduction." Labor Markets and Firm Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States. Ed. David A. Wise, Seiritsu Ogura, and Toshiaki Tachibanaki. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Altshuler, Alan. "Government Interventions." Review of Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems, by Pietro S. Nivola. Journal of the American Planning Assn., 69.4, Autumn 2003: 443-444.
Avery, Christopher, Andrew Fairbanks, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite. Harvard University Press, 2003.
Retsinas, Nicolas. "This Market is Not a Bubble." Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2002.
Liebman, Jeffrey. "The Role of Annuities in a Reformed U.S. Social Security System." AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper, December 2002.
Jacob, Brian A. 鈥淲here the Boys Aren鈥檛: Non-Cognitive Skills, Returns to School and the Gender Gap in Higher Education.鈥 Economics of Education Review 21.6 (December 2002): 589-598.