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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

How Scientific Is 'the Science of Delivery'?

Behn, Robert. "How Scientific Is 'the Science of Delivery'?" Canadian Public Administration 60.1 (March 2017).

The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

Behn, Robert. The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results. Brookings Institution Press, 2014.

The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

Behn, Robert. The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results. Brookings Institution Press, 2014.

PerformanceStat: Accounting for Targeted Performance

Behn, Robert. "PerformanceStat: Accounting for Targeted Performance." The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability. Ed. Bovens, Mark, Robert E. Goodin, and Thomas Schillemans. Oxford University Press, 2014, 456-471.

PortStat: Or How the United States Coast Guard Could Use the PerformanceStat Leadership Strategy to Improve Port Security

Behn, Robert. "PortStat: Or How the United States Coast Guard Could Use the PerformanceStat Leadership Strategy to Improve Port Security." Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World. Ed. Donahue, John D., and Mark H. Moore. Brookings Institution Press, 2012, 55-83.

The Consistency Conundrum: From Requirements and Templates to Expectations and Adaptations

Behn, Robert. "The Consistency Conundrum: From Requirements and Templates to Expectations and Adaptations." Public Administration Review 70.6 (December 2010, Issue Supplement): s218-s219.

Creating PerformanceStat's Organizational Competence and Commitment

Behn, Robert. "Creating PerformanceStat's Organizational Competence and Commitment." Paper for the Thirty Second Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Boston, November 3, 2010.

Collaborating for Performance: Or Can There Exist Such a Thing at CollaborationStat?

Behn, Robert. "Collaborating for Performance: Or Can There Exist Such a Thing at CollaborationStat?" International Public Management Journal 13.4 (October 2010): 429 - 470.

Closing the Knowledge-Practice Gap

Behn, Robert. "Closing the Knowledge-Practice Gap." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. December 2009.

Performance Leadership: Eleven Better Practices That Can Ratchet Up Performance

Behn, Robert. Performance Leadership: Eleven Better Practices That Can Ratchet Up Performance. The Jossey-Bass Reader on Nonprofit and Public Leadership. Ed. James L. Perry. Jossey-Bass, 2009, 13.

PerformanceStat as a Search for Strategic Evidence

Behn, Robert. "PerformanceStat as a Search for Strategic Evidence." Paper presented at the National Public Management Research Conference, Columbus, and the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., October 1-3 and November 6, 2009.