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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

The Market and Climate Implications of U.S. LNG Exports

Stock, James H., and Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins. "The Market and Climate Implications of U.S. LNG Exports." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2024.

Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2

Kevin Rennert, Frank Errickson, Brian C. Prest, Lisa Rennels, Richard G. Newell, William Pizer, Cora Kingdon, Jordan Wingenroth, Roger Cooke, Bryan Parthum, David Smith, Kevin Cromar, Delavane Diaz, Frances C. Moore, Ulrich K. Müller, Richard J. Plevin, Adrian E. Raftery, Hana Ševcíková, Hannah Sheets, James H. Stock, Tammy Tan, Mark Watson, Tony E. Wong, and David Anthoff. "Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2." Nature 610 (2022): 687-692.

Keep Climate Policy Focused on the Social Cost of Carbon

Aldy, Joseph, Matthew L. Kotchen, Robert N. Stavins, and James H. Stock. "Keep Climate Policy Focused on the Social Cost of Carbon." Science 373.6557 (2021): 850-852.

The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes

Metcalf, Gilbert E., and James H. Stock. "The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes." National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020.

The Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals

Irwin, Scott H., Kristen McCormack, and James H. Stock. "The Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102.3 (May 2020): 734-752.

Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies

Gerarden, Todd D., W. Spencer Reeder, and James H. Stock. "Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12.1 (February 2020): 167-199.

Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Transient Climate Response Using Observational Data

Montamat, Giselle, and James H. Stock. "Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Transient Climate Response Using Observational Data." Climatic Change (2020): 1-11.

Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Economic Growth

Stock, James H. "Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Economic Growth." NBER Macroeconomics Annual 34.1 (January 2020): 399-419.

The Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals

Irwin, Scott H., Kristen McCormack, and James H. Stock. "The Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series, December 2018.