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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

Performance Measurement in a Modern Police Organization

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Performance Measurement in a Modern Police Organization." New Perspectives in Policing. National Institute of Justice and Program in Criminal Justice, Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School, 2014.

Managing the Boundary between Public and Private Policing

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Managing the Boundary between Public and Private Policing." New Perspectives in Policing. National Institute of Justice and Program in Criminal Justice, Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School, 2014.

What Does It Mean to be a Risk-based Regulator?

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "What Does It Mean to be a Risk-based Regulator?" Beyond Finance - Financial Supervision in the 21st Century. Dutch National Bank Occasional Series, March 2014, 9-14.

Foreword

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Foreword." Financial Supervision in the 21st Century. Ed. A. Joanne Kellermann, Jakob de Haan, and Femke de Vries. Springer-Verlag, 2013, v-viii.

Unravelling a Risk-Management Challenge

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Unravelling a Risk-Management Challenge." Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World. Ed. John D. Donahue and Mark H. Moore. Brookings Institution Press, 2012, 25-54.

Corruption in Health Care Systems: The U.S. Experience.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Corruption in Health Care Systems: The U.S. Experience." Global Corruption Report 2006: Special Focus - Corruption and Health. Ed. Transparency International. Pluto Press, 2006, 16-22.

Compliance Assistance and 'Beyond Compliance' : Overview.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Compliance Assistance and 'Beyond Compliance' : Overview." Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance and Sustainable Development. Ed. Durwood Zaelke, Donald Kaniaru, and Eva Kruzikova. Cameron May and The Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, 2005, Vol 2, 149-154.

Fraud Control in the Health Care Industry: Assessing the State of the Art.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Fraud Control in the Health Care Industry: Assessing the State of the Art." Readings in White-Collar Crime. Ed. David Shichor, Larry Gaines, and Richard Ball. Waveland, 2002.