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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

The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age

Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age." Hastings Center Report, January-February 2021.

Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics

Jasanoff, Sheila, Stephen Hilgartner, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Onur Özgöde, and Margarita Rayzberg. "Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics." January 2021.

Governance of the Deployment of Solar Geoengineering

Keith, David, Peter Irvine, et al. "Governance of the Deployment of Solar Geoengineering." Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, October 2018.

<i>Amicus Curiae</i> Brief in the Case of <i>EC: Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products.</i>

Busch, Lawrence, Robin Grove-White, Sheila Jasanoff, David Winickoff, and Brian Wynne. Amicus Curiae Brief in the Case of EC: Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products. Dispute Settlement Panel, World Trade Organization, April 2004.

Strategic Review: The Rights and Responsibilities of Science and Society: Defining the Future Role for ICSU.

Gustafsson, Bengt, Sheila Jasanoff, et al. "Strategic Review: The Rights and Responsibilities of Science and Society: Defining the Future Role for ICSU." International Council for Science (ICSU) Review Group, July 2004.