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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

China’s Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy

Cunningham, Edward, and Yunxin Li. "China’s Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy." The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia’s China Philanthropy Project, August 2023.

Jiang Zemin Propelled China’s Economic Rise in the World, Leaving his Successors to Deal with the Massive Inequality that Followed

Cunningham, Edward. "Jiang Zemin Propelled China’s Economic Rise in the World, Leaving his Successors to Deal with the Massive Inequality that Followed." The Conversation, December 1, 2022.

Edward Cunningham: What is the future of China’s private sector?

Cunningham, Edward. "Edward Cunningham: What is the future of China’s private sector?" Harvard Kennedy School, Summer 2022.

Edward Cunningham on China’s Climate Face-offs and Trade-offs

Cunningham, Edward. "Edward Cunningham on China’s Climate Face-offs and Trade-offs." Rajawali Foundation Institute For Asia, December 8, 2021.

Is Climate Change the Path to Greater US-China Cooperation?

Cunningham, Edward. "Is Climate Change the Path to Greater US-China Cooperation?" Rajawali Foundation Institute For Asia, May 18, 2021.

China's Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy

Cunningham, Edward, and Yunxin Li. "China's Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy." 2020.

To Serve the People: Income, Region and Citizen Attitudes towards Governance in China (2003–2016)

Turiel, Jesse, Edward Cunningham, and Anthony Saich. "To Serve the People: Income, Region and Citizen Attitudes towards Governance in China (2003–2016)." China Quarterly 240 (December 2019): 906-935.

To Serve the People: Income, Region and Citizen Attitudes towards Governance in China (2003–2016)

Turiel, Jesse, Edward Cunningham, and Anthony Saich. "To Serve the People: Income, Region and Citizen Attitudes towards Governance in China (2003–2016)." The China Quarterly (April 2019): 1-30.