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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.

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

Self-Government, Taxation, and Tribal Development: The Critical Role of American Indian Nation Business Enterprises

Kalt, Joseph P. "Self-Government, Taxation, and Tribal Development: The Critical Role of American Indian Nation Business Enterprises." Policy Briefs for Tribal, Federal & State Governments, Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance & Development, October 7, 2024.

Economic and Social Impacts of Restrictions on the Applicability of Federal Indian Policies to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine

Kalt, Joseph P., Amy Besaw Medford, and Jonathan B. Taylor. "Economic and Social Impacts of Restrictions on the Applicability of Federal Indian Policies to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Research Report, December 2022.

Brief for Indian Law and Policy Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner in United States v. Cooley

Routel, Colette, Joseph Kalt, et al. "Brief for Indian Law and Policy Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner in United States v. Cooley." University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper, July 2022.

Dissecting the US Treasury Department’s Round 1 Allocations of CARES Act COVID-19 Relief Funding for Tribal Governments

Akee, Randall K.Q., Eric C. Henson, Miriam R. Jorgensen, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Dissecting the US Treasury Department’s Round 1 Allocations of CARES Act COVID-19 Relief Funding for Tribal Governments." May 2020.

Toward a Comprehensive Indian Water Rights Settlement: Economic and Public Policy Analysis
of the Proposed Western Navajo Pipeline and the Leupp-Dilkon and Ganado Groundwater
Projects

Kalt, Joseph P. "Toward a Comprehensive Indian Water Rights Settlement: Economic and Public Policy Analysis of the Proposed Western Navajo Pipeline and the Leupp-Dilkon and Ganado Groundwater Projects." Report for the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, March 6, 2009.

Economics, Law and Politics: What Will Drive Energy's Future?

Kalt, Joseph P. "Economics, Law and Politics: What Will Drive Energy's Future?" Annual Institute of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Vol 50-51, 2005.

Annotated Bibliography: The Social and Economic Impacts of Indian and Other Gaming.

Kalt, Joseph P., Leigh Gardner, and Katherine A. Spilde. "Annotated Bibliography: The Social and Economic Impacts of Indian and Other Gaming." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, January 2005.

Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't.

Cornell, Stephen, Miriam Jorgenson, Joseph P. Kalt, and Katherine A. Spilde. "Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs 2005-01, 2005.

American Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic Change Between the 1990 and 200 Censuses.

Taylor, Jonathan B., and Joseph P. Kalt. "American Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic Change Between the 1990 and 200 Censuses." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, January 2005.

Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't.

Kalt, Joseph P., Stephen Cornell, Miriam Jorgensen, and Katherine A Spilde. "Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, October 2003.

One Works, the Other Doesn't: Two Approaches to Economic Development on American Indian Reservations.

Kalt, Joseph P., and Stephen Cornell. "One Works, the Other Doesn't: Two Approaches to Economic Development on American Indian Reservations." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Working Paper, November 2002.

The First Nations Governance Act: Implications of Research Findings from the United States and Canada.

Kalt, Joseph P., Stephen Cornell, and Miriam Jorgenson. "The First Nations Governance Act: Implications of Research Findings from the United States and Canada." Report to the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, July 2002.

Native America at the New Millennium.

Kalt, Joseph P., and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. "Native America at the New Millennium." Manuscript, February 2002.