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Delivery worker wearing a medical mask and carrying packages.
Feature: The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Service Workers

Daniel Schneider finds that state paid sick leave laws increased service workers’ access to paid sick leave and reduced the share of service workers who worked while sick.

A family with a father, mother, and two small children walking on a dirt path.
Feature: Connecting Absolute and Relative Intergenerational Mobility

Deirdre Bloome offers two frameworks for understanding the relationship between types of intergenerational mobility, or whether people are socioeconomically better off than their parents.

Two women in rural India dressed colorfully and carrying baskets on their heads.
Feature: Studying a Government Program to Support Women’s Self-Help Groups

Michael Walton explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program, finding two major tensions.

A network of computer motherboards and other parts assembled to look like a miniature city.
Feature: The Data-Informed City

Jorrit de Jong presents a comprehensive framework for how cities can use data to address problems more effectively, efficiently, equitably, and with better accountability.

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

Weather, Salience of Climate Change and Congressional Voting

Herrnstadt, Evan, and Erich J. Muehlegger. "Weather, Salience of Climate Change and Congressional Voting." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-023, June 2013.

AB 32 and Climate Change:
The National Context of State Policies for a Global Commons Problem

Stavins, Robert N. "AB 32 and Climate Change: The National Context of State Policies for a Global Commons Problem." Agricultural and Resource Economics Update. September/October 2010, 2-5.

Gore’s Carbon ‘Tax Shift’ Beats Cap-and-Trade

Kamarck, Elaine. "Gore’s Carbon ‘Tax Shift’ Beats Cap-and-Trade." Roll Call. August 3, 2009.

Addressing the Risks of Climate Change: The Politics of the Policy Options

Kamarck, Elaine. "Addressing the Risks of Climate Change: The Politics of the Policy Options." The U.S. Climate Task Force, June 2009.