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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

Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions

Marion, Justin, and Erich Muehlegger. "Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-014, April 2010.

A Perplexed Economist Confronts 'Too Big to Fail'

Scherer, F.M. "A Perplexed Economist Confronts 'Too Big to Fail'." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-007, March 2010.

Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries

Andrews, Matthew. "Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries." Governance 23.1 (January 2010): 7-35.

Difference-in-Difference Estimators

Abadie, Alberto. Difference-in-Difference Estimators. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online. Ed. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, December 2009.

How Globalization Affects Tax Design

Hines, Jr., James R., and Lawrence H. Summers. How Globalization Affects Tax Design. Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 23. Ed. Jeffrey R. Brown and James M. Poterba. University of Chicago Press, 2009, 123-157.

Informal Taxation

Olken, Benjamin A., and Monica Singhal. "Informal Taxation." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-033, October 2009.

Informal Taxation

Olken, Benjamin A., and Monica Singhal. "Informal Taxation." NBER Working Papers 15221, August 2009.

Mercantilism Reconsidered

Rodrik, Dani. "Mercantilism Reconsidered." Daily Times (Pakistan), July 12, 2009.

Symposium: China's Environment: The Local and Global Benefits of Green Tax Policies in China

Cao, Jing, Mun S. Ho, and Dale W. Jorgenson. "Symposium: China's Environment: The Local and Global Benefits of Green Tax Policies in China." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3.2 (Summer 2009): 189-208.

Implementation of a New Architecture for the US National Accounts

Jorgenson, Dale W., and J. Steven Landefeld. "Implementation of a New Architecture for the US National Accounts." American Economic Review 99.2 (May 2009): 64-68.

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.

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?" NBER Working Papers, April 2009.

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect
Individuals’ Mutual Fund Choices?

Beshears, John, James Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte Madrian. "How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals’ Mutual Fund Choices?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-016, March 2009.

Making Credit Good Again

Retsinas, Nicolas. "Making Credit Good Again." Los Angeles Times. March 17, 2009.

A Plan B for Global Finance

Rodrik, Dani. "A Plan B for Global Finance." The Economist. March 12, 2009.

A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts: Third Ruggles Lecture for the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth

Jorgenson, Dale W. "A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts: Third Ruggles Lecture for the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth." Review of Income and Wealth 55.1 (March 2009): 1-42.

Not a Dirty Word

Parker, Richard. "Not a Dirty Word." Newsweek, February 9, 2009.

A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators

Abadie, Alberto, and Guido Imbens. "A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators." NBER Working Papers 14756, February 2009.

How Globalization Affects Tax Design

Hines, James R., and Lawrence H. Summers. "How Globalization Affects Tax Design." NBER Working Papers 14664, January 2009.