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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

Fundamentals of Regulatory Design

Sparrow, Malcolm K. Fundamentals of Regulatory Design, Paperback & Kindle. Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020.

What Does It Mean to be a Risk-based Regulator?

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.

Foreword

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Foreword." Financial Supervision in the 21st Century. Ed. A. Joanne Kellermann, Jakob de Haan, and Femke de Vries. Springer-Verlag, 2013, v-viii.

Can Internet Gambling Be Effectively Regulated? Managing the Risks

Sparrow, Malcolm K., Coleman D. Bazelon, and Charles Jackson. "Can Internet Gambling Be Effectively Regulated? Managing the Risks." Report prepared for The Brattle Group, December 2009.

Leader's Log: Lessons from the Financial ‘Accident’: Promoting Sensible and Stable Attitudes Towards Regulation is Part of Risk Management

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Leader's Log: Lessons from the Financial ‘Accident’: Promoting Sensible and Stable Attitudes Towards Regulation is Part of Risk Management." Aerosafety World. May 2009, 24-25.