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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.

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

Going the Distance or Growing More Remote? The Academic Impacts of Course Modality following Pandemic-Era Investments

Worsham, Rachel, Elise Swanson, and Christopher Norio Avery. "Going the Distance or Growing More Remote? The Academic Impacts of Course Modality following Pandemic-Era Investments." EdWorkingPaper, May 2025.

Supporting Postsecondary Readiness in Rural Districts: Experimental Evidence from a Rural Research Network

Swanson, Elise, Jennifer Ash, Sativa Thompson, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Christopher Avery, Douglas O. Staiger, and Thomas J. Kane. "Supporting Postsecondary Readiness in Rural Districts: Experimental Evidence from a Rural Research Network." Center for Education Policy Research and National Center for Rural Education Research Networks, December 2024.

Low-Income High-Achieving Students Miss Out on Attending Selective Colleges

Hoxby, Caroline M., and Christopher Avery. "Low-Income High-Achieving Students Miss Out on Attending Selective Colleges." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2013.

Early Admissions at Selective Colleges

Avery, Christopher, and Jonathan D. Levin. "Early Admissions at Selective Colleges." NBER Working Papers 14844, April 2009.

The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks.

Avery, Christopher, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth. "The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks." NBER Working Paper Series No. 13213, July 2007.

Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative.

Avery, Christopher, Caroline Hoxby, Clement Jackson, Kaitlin Burek, Glenn Pope, and Mridula Raman. "Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative." NBER Working Paper 12029, February 2006.

A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities.

Avery, Christopher, Mark Glickman, Caroline Hoxby, and Andrew Metrick. "A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities." Working Paper, November 2002.

Do and Should Financial Aid Policies Affect Students' College Decisions?

Avery, Christopher and Caroline Hoxby. "Do and Should Financial Aid Policies Affect Students' College Decisions?" Working Paper, August 2002.

Student Perceptions of College Opportunities.

Avery, Christopher and Thomas Kane. "Student Perceptions of College Opportunities." Working Paper, August 2002.