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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

Review of The Resilient Society

Furman, Jason. Review of The Resilient Society, by Markus K. Brunnermeier. Journal of Economic Literature, 62.3, September 2024: 1258-1259.

Review of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Elmendorf, Douglas. Review of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, by Martin Wolf. Journal of Economic Literature, 62.2, June 2024: 818-20.

The Quants in the Room: How Much Power Do Economists Really Have?

Furman, Jason. "The Quants in the Room: How Much Power Do Economists Really Have?" Review of by Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US. Public Policy. ed. Elizabeth Popp Berman. Foreign Affairs, 101.4, 2022: 182-189.

Advice and Caution on Investing in a College Education: An economist and a financial journalist offer their strategies.

Avery, Christopher. "Advice and Caution on Investing in a College Education: An economist and a financial journalist offer their strategies." Review of Making College Pay: An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher Education by Beth Akers, and The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make by Ron Lieber, by Beth Akers. Education Next, 21.3, Summer 2021.

Book Review: James M. Gabler: Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson

Stavins, Robert N. "Book Review: James M. Gabler: Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 16 , 2021: 102-114.

Film Review: Jason Wise (Director), Somm 3

Stavins, Robert N. "Film Review: Jason Wise (Director), Somm 3." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 15.4, November 2020: 422-426.

‘Promised Land’ Review: A Short-Lived Consensus

Glaeser, Edward L. "‘Promised Land’ Review: A Short-Lived Consensus." Review of Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968, by David Stebenne. Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2020.

Book Review: Gert Crum and Jan Bartelsman: Le Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

Stavins, Robert N. "Book Review: Gert Crum and Jan Bartelsman: Le Domaine de la Romanée-Conti." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 14.3, 2019: 224-227.

Review of Burgundy: People with a Passion for Wine

Stavins, Robert N. Review of Burgundy: People with a Passion for Wine, by Rudi Goldman. Wine Economics, 13.1, Spring 2018: 105-108.

Review of The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

Summers, Lawrence H. Review of The Euro and the Battle of Ideas, by Brunnermeier, Markus K.. The Times Literary Supplement, 5936 , January 6, 2017: 11.

Those Were The Days

Glaeser, Edward L. "Those Were The Days." Review of The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War, by Robert J. Gordon. Wall Street Journal, 267.13, January 16, 2016: C5-C7.

Review of A Year in Burgundy

Stavins, Robert N. "Film Review: David Leonard, A Year in Burgundy." Review of A Year in Burgundy, by David Leonard. Journal of Wine Economics, 9.1, November 2014: 100-103.

Review of Women and Executive Office: Pathways and Performance

Bowles, Hannah Riley. Review of Women and Executive Office: Pathways and Performance, ed. Melody Rose. Sage, 59.4, March 2014: NP39–NP41.

Review of Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective

Jasanoff, Sheila. Review of Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, ed. Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee. Isis, 104.3, September 2013: 595-596.

The End of the Line

Summers, Lawrence H. "The End of the Line." Review of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, by Mark Blyth. Financial Times, April 12, 2013.

Review of Climate Change and Common Sense: Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling

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.

Comment on Auction Choice for Ambiguity-Averse Sellers Facing Strategic Uncertainty

Kotowski, Maciej. Comment on Auction Choice for Ambiguity-Averse Sellers Facing Strategic Uncertainty, Games and Economic Behavior, 72.2, June 2011: 448-451.

Fairness and Dynamic Pricing

Hogan, William W. "Fairness and Dynamic Pricing." Comment on The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing, by Ahmad Faruqui. Electricity Journal, 23.6, July 2010: 28-35.

Review of Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover

Stavins, Robert N. Review of Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover, by Jancis Robinson. Journal of Wine Economics, 2.1, Spring 2007: 106-108.

The Presidents We Pick: On Our Increasingly Democratic Politics

Porter, Roger. "The Presidents We Pick: On Our Increasingly Democratic Politics." Review of Running Alone: Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II - Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It, by James MacGregor Burns. Harvard Magazine, November-December 2007: 26-28.

Review of The Market For Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility

Stavins, Robert N. Review of The Market For Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility, by David Vogel Environment, 48.3 April 2006: 43.

Comment on Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable

Summers, Lawrence H. "Comments on Richard Zeckhauser's Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable." Capitalism and Society, 1.2 2006.

Comment on Vertical Restrictions and Antitrust Policy

Scherer, F.M. Comment on Vertical Restrictions and Antitrust Policy, by James Cooper, et al.. Competition Policy International, 1.2, Autumn 2005.

Review of Nonlinear Statistical Modeling: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics: Essays in Honor of Takeshi Amemiya

Abadie, Alberto. Review of Nonlinear Statistical Modeling: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics: Essays in Honor of Takeshi Amemiya, ed. Hsiao, Cheng, Kimio Morimune, and James L. Powell. Journal of Economic Literature, XL.1, 2002: 165-166.

Comment on Evolving Post-World War II Inflation Dynamics

Stock, James H. Discussion of "Evolving Post-World War II Inflation Dynamics," by Cogley and Sargent. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2001.

Comment on Policy Rules for Inflation Targeting

Stock, James H. Comment on Policy Rules for Inflation Targeting, by Glenn Rudebusch and Lars E.O. Svensson. Monetary Policy Rules, 1999: 253-262.