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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.

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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.

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.

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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

Assessing the Efficiency Gain from Further Liberalization.

Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Assessing the Efficiency Gain from Further Liberalization." Efficiency, Equity and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium. Ed. Roger B. Porter, Pierre Sauvé, Arvind Subramanian, and Americo Beviglia Zampetti. CBG/Brookings Institution, 2001.

The Balance Between Adjustment and Financing.

Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Balance Between Adjustment and Financing." Key Issues in Reform of the International Monetary System. Ed. Peter Kenen and Alexander Swoboda. International Monetary Fund, 2001.

An Estimate of the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output.

Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Andrew Rose. "An Estimate of the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output." Centre for Economic Policy Research Working Paper 2631, 2001.

The Crusade for Free Trade: Evaluating Clinton's International Economics Policy

Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Crusade for Free Trade: Evaluating Clinton's International Economics Policy." Review of The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization, by Jagdish Bhagwati. Foreign Affairs, 1.2 March-April 2001.

La Paradoja de la reforma educacional: Pronosticar el fracasco y encontrar el progreso.

Grindle, Merilee S. "La Paradoja de la reforma educacional: Pronosticar el fracasco y encontrar el progreso." Economía política de las reformas educativas en América Latina. Ed. Sergio Martinic and Marcela Pardos. CIDE and PREAL, 2001, 15-52.

Education Reform in Mexico: Where are the Parents?

Grindle, Merilee S. "Education Reform in Mexico: Where are the Parents?" ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Fall 2001): 16-18.

Despite the Odds: The Political Economy of Social Sector Reform in Latin America.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Despite the Odds: The Political Economy of Social Sector Reform in Latin America." KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP01-021, 2001.

Designing Reforms: Problems, Solutions, and Politics.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Designing Reforms: Problems, Solutions, and Politics." KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP01-020, 2001.

The PRSP Process: What Next?

Grindle, Merilee S. "The PRSP Process: What Next?" Department for International Development, Government of the United Kingdom, 2001.

Trade and Growth: Import-Led or Export-Led? Evidence from Japan and Korea.

Lawrence, Robert Z., and David E. Weinstein. "Trade and Growth: Import-Led or Export-Led? Evidence from Japan and Korea." Rethinking the East Asia Miracle. Ed. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Shahid Yusuf. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Trade, Multinationals and Labor.

Lawrence, Robert Z. "Trade, Multinationals and Labor." Globalization and Labour Markets. Ed. David Greenaway and Douglas Nelson. Elgar, 2001.

Brookings Trade Forum: 2000

Collins, Susan M., and Dani Rodrik, eds. Brookings Trade Forum: 2000. Brookings Institution, 2001.

Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence.

Rodrik, Dani and Francisco Rodriguez. "Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence." Macroeconomics Annual 2000. Ed. Ben Bernanke and Kenneth S. Rogoff. MIT for NBER, 2001.

The Global Governance of Trade as if Development Really Mattered.

Rodrik, Dani. "The Global Governance of Trade as if Development Really Mattered." United Nations Development Programme (2001).

When Does International Capital Mobility Require Tax Coordination?

Rodrik, Dani, and Tangay van Ypersele. "When Does International Capital Mobility Require Tax Coordination?" Journal of International Economics 54.1 (2001): 57-73.

Folly or Foresight: Strategic Options for Fiscal Policy in East Timor.

Rosengard, Jay. "Folly or Foresight: Strategic Options for Fiscal Policy in East Timor." East Timor: Development Challenges for the World's Newest Nation. Ed. Hal Hill and João M. Saldanha. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001.

Using the Market to Govern Better in Singapore.

Thomas, John, and Lim Siong Guan (Permanent Secretary of Finance and Head of the Civil Service of the Government of Singapore). "Using the Market to Govern Better in Singapore." KSG Visions of Governance in the 21st Century Working Paper, 2001.

Comment on Who's Afraid of Globalization? Domestic Adjustment in Europe and America

Rodrik, Dani. Comment on Who's Afraid of Globalization? Domestic Adjustment in Europe and America, by André Sapir. Efficiency, Equity, Legitimacy, Brookings Institution Press, 2001: 209-211.

Globalization, NGOs, and Multi-Sectoral Relations.

Brown, L. David, Sanjeev Khagram, Mark H. Moore, and Peter Frumkin. "Globalization, NGOs, and Multi-Sectoral Relations." Governance in a Globalizing World. Ed. Nye, Jr., Joseph S., and John D. Donohue. Brookings Institution, 2001, 271-296.

BRI Micro Banking Services: Development Impact and Future Growth Potential.

Rosengard, Jay K, et al. "BRI Micro Banking Services: Development Impact and Future Growth Potential." Center for Business and Government, 2001.

Development Strategies for the 21st Century.

Rodrik, Dani. "Development Strategies for the 21st Century." Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000. Ed. Boris Pleskovic and Nicholas Stern. World Bank, 2001.

Comment on Full Dollarization: The Case of Panama,

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comment on "Full Dollarization: The Case of Panama," by Ilan Goldfajn and Gino Olivares. Economia, Spring 2001.

Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Alesina, Alberto, and Eliana La Ferrara. "Participation in Heterogeneous Communities." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115.3 (August 2000): 847-904.

Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers

Chen, Martha, Jennefer Sebstad, and Lesley O'Connell. "Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers." World Development 27.3 (March 1999): 603-610.

New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation

Scherer, F.M. New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation. Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

Inside the Collapsing Soviet Economy

Parker, Richard. "Inside the Collapsing Soviet Economy." The Atlantic. June 1990.