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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

Review of Estimates of the Equilibrium Exchange Rate of the Renminbi: Is There a Consensus and, If Not, Why Not?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Review of Estimates of the Equilibrium Exchange Rate of the Renminbi: Is There a Consensus and, If Not, Why Not?, by William R. Cline and John Williamson. Conference on China's Exchange Rate Policy: Peterson Institute, Washington, D.C., October 12, 2007.

Comment on The Euro's Trade Effects

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comments on The Euro's Trade Effects, by Richard Baldwin European Central Bank Working Paper Series, ECB Working Paper No. 594 March 2006: 77-91.

Review of Is it 1958 or 1968? Three Notes on the Longevity of the Revived Bretton Woods System

Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Comments on." Review of "Is it 1958 or 1968? Three Notes on the Longevity of the Revived Bretton Woods System.", by Michael Dooley and Peter Garber. Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, 0.1, 2005: 195-204.

Comment on The Euro, Stabilization Policy and the Stability and Growth Pact OR Can Rubinomics work in the Eurozone?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comments on "The Euro, Stabilization Policy and the Stability and Growth Pact OR Can Rubinomics work in the Eurozone?" Ed. Adam S. Posen. The Euro at Five: Ready for a Global Role?, 2005: 157-169.

Comment on The Empirics of Growth: An Update

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comment on The Empirics of Growth: An Update, by Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins. Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, 2 2003: 189-199.

Comment on Towards a Statutory Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Lessons from Corporate Bankruptcy Practice around the World

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comment on Towards a Statutory Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Lessons from Corporate Bankruptcy Practice around the World, by Patrick Bolton. IMF Staff Papers, 50 2003: 72-81.

Comment on Long-Term Capital Movements

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comment on "Long-Term Capital Movements," by Philip R. Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti. NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2001, 16 2002.

Comment on The Current State of the Japanese Economy and Remedies

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comments on "The Current State of the Japanese Economy and Remedies" by Naoyuki Yoshino and Eisuke Sakakibara. Asian Economic Papers, 1.2 Spring 2002.

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.

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.