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
Greenstone, Michael, and Rema Hanna. "Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India." American Economic Review 104.10 (October 2014): 3038-3072.
Aldy, Joseph. "The Crucial Role of Policy Surveillance in International Climate Policy." Climatic Change 126.3/4 (October 2014): 279-292.
Houde, Sebastien, and Joseph Aldy. "Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-046, September 2014.
Stavins, Robert N. "Climate Realities." New York Times. 09/21/2014, 6-6.
Hogan, William W. "Electricity Market Design and Efficient Pricing: Applications for New England and Beyond." Electricity Journal 27.7 (August 2014): 23-49.
John, Prachitha, Ashwin Mahalingam, Akash Deep, and A. Thillairajan. "Impact of Private Sector Participation on access and quality of services: systematic review of evidence from the electricity, telecommunications and water supply sectors." Journal of Development Effectiveness 7.1 (2015): 64-89.
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "The Relative Weights of Direct and Indirect Experiences in the Formation of Environmental Risk Beliefs." Risk Analysis (September 5, 2014).
Keith, David W. "Not A Superpower." Policy Opinions. September 2014.
Aldy, Joseph. "The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-037, August 2014.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Valentina Bosetti. "Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets." Climate Change Economics 5.3 (August 2014).
Aldy, Joseph, and William Pizer. "The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-025, May 2014.
Diaz Anadon, Laura, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Gabriel Chan, Alicia Harley, Sharmila Murthy, Vanessa Timmer, Ahmed Abdel Latif, Kathleen Araujo, Kayje Booker, Hyundo Choi, Kristian Dubrawski, Lonia Friedlander, Christina Ingersoll, Erin Kempster, Laura Pereira, Jennie Stephens, Lee Vinsel, and William C. Clark. "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development: Diagnosing Weaknesses and Identifying Interventions in the Transnational Arena." Sustainability Science Program Working Paper No. 2014-01, Sustainability Science Program and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, May 2014.
Harley, Alicia, Sharmila Murthy, Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabriel Chan, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Vanessa Timmer, and William C. Clark. "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Global Systems Perspective." Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, April 24, 2014.
Aldy, Joseph. "Foreword." Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance. Ed. Todd L. Cherry, Jon Hovi, and David M. McEvoy. Routledge, 2014.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-012, February 2014.
Aldy, Joseph. "Environmental Risk and Uncertainty." Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty. Ed. Mark Machina and W. Kip Viscusi. Elsevier, January 2014, 601-649.
Aldy, Joseph. "The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations." Does Regulation Kill Jobs? Ed. Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and Christopher Carrigan. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Aldy, Joseph, and W. Kip Viscusi. "Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows." Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 8.4 (December 2013): 231-313.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27.1 (December 2013): 103-122.
Aldy, Joseph, and W. Kip Viscusi. "Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-047, November 2013.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-046, November 2013.
Duflo, Esther, Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, and Nicholas Ryan. "Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128.4 (2013): 1499–1545.
Bilmes, Linda J. "No Day at the National Parks." Boston Globe, October 4, 2013.
Hogan, William W. "Electricity Scarcity Pricing Through Operating Reserves." Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 2.2 (September 2013).
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "National Security Warrants Slowing Domestic Oil Depletion, Not Accelerating It." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series, August 2013 (first draft).
Herrnstadt, Evan, and Erich J. Muehlegger. "Weather, Salience of Climate Change and Congressional Voting." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-023, June 2013.
Siddiqi, Afreen, Arani Kajenthira, and Laura DÃaz Anadón. "Bridging Decision Networks for Integrated Water and Energy Planning." Energy Strategy Review 2.1 (June 2013): 46-58.
Hogan, William W. "Financial Transmission Rights: Point-to-Point Formulations." Financial Transmission Rights: Analysis, Experiences, and Prospects. Ed. Juan Rosellon and Tarjei Kristiansen. Springer, 2013.
Duflo, Esther, Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, and Nicholas Ryan. "What Does Reputation Buy? Differentiation in a Market for Third-party Auditors." American Economic Review 103.3 (May 2013): 314-19.
Aldy, Joseph. "Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Global Climate Change." Handbook on Energy and Climate Change. Ed. Roger Fouquet. Edward Elgar, 2013.
Stavins, Robert N. "Navigating a Two-Way Street Between Academia and the Policy World." Introduction to Economics Of Climate Change And Environmental Policy Economics Of Climate Change And Environmental Policy: Selected Papers of Robert N. Stavins, 2000–2011. Ed. Robert N. Stavins. Edward Elgar, 2013.
Richard Schmalensee, and Robert N. Stavins. "The Sordid History of Congressional Acceptance and Rejection of Cap-and-Trade: Implications for Climate Policy." Vox, March 17, 2013.
Aldy, Joseph. Review of Climate Change and Common Sense: Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling, ed. Robert W. Hahn and Alastair Ulph. Journal of Regional Science, 53.1, February 2013: 201–203.
Aldy, Joseph. "The Case for a U.S. Carbon Tax." Oxford Energy Forum 91 (February 2013): 13-16.
Aldy, Joseph. "A Preliminary Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 7.1 (Winter 2013): 136-155.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems." Chicago Journal of International Law 13.2 (Winter 2013): 403-438.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage as a Foundation for Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture." Ethics, Policy & Environment 15.3 (December 2012): 272-275.
Diaz Anadon, Laura. "Missions-oriented RD&D Institutions in Energy between 2000 and 2010: A Comparative Analysis of China, the United Kingdom, and the United States." Research Policy 41.10 (December 2012): 1742-1756.
Kayyem, Juliette. "BP Lets Employees Take The Fall." Boston Globe, November 19, 2012.
Stavins, Robert N. "From Berlin to Durban to Doha." Environmental Forum. November/December 2012, 14.
Hogan, William W. "Brief of Robert L. Bordick, Joseph Bowring, James Bushnell, and 18 Other Leading Economists as Amici Curiae in Support of the Petitioners." United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, October 25, 2012.
Goulder, Lawrence H., and Robert N. Stavins. "Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies." The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy. Ed. Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012, 109-121.
Stavins, Robert N. "Independence is Important: Coase." Environmental Forum. September/October 2012, 14.
Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "Climate Negotiators Create an Opportunity for Scholars." Science 337.6098 (August 2012): 1043-1044.
Stavins, Robert N. "The U.S. Sulphur Dioxide Cap and Trade Programme and Lessons for Climate Policy." Vox. August 12, 2012.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-030, August 2012.
Hahn, Robert W., and Robert N. Stavins. "The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance." Journal of Law and Economics 54.4 (August 2012): S267-S294.
Stavins, Robert N. "Climate Policy: A Breath of Fresh Air." Environmental Forum. July/August 2012.
Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon." Journal of Environment and Development 21.2 (June 2012): 152-180.
Chan, Gabriel, Robert Stavins, Robert Stowe, and Richard Sweeney. "The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on 20 Years of Policy Innovation." National Tax Journal 65.2 (June 2012): 419.