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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

‘Promised Land’ Review: A Short-Lived Consensus

Glaeser, Edward L. "‘Promised Land’ Review: A Short-Lived Consensus." Review of Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968, by David Stebenne. Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2020.

‘Promised Land’ Review: A Short-Lived Consensus

Glaeser, Edward L. "‘Promised Land’ Review: A Short-Lived Consensus." Review of Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968, by David Stebenne. Wall Street Journal, 08/19/20.

Review of Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy

Glaeser, Edward L. Review of Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy, by Cameron Hawkins. Papers in Regional Science, 97.S1, March 2018.

The Old Urbanist

Glaeser, Edward L. "The Old Urbanist." Review of Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, American Scholar, 85.4, Autumn 2016: 120-122.

On Hallowed Ground

Glaeser, Edward L. "On Hallowed Ground." Review of Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money & the Remaking of Lower Manhattan, 10/2/2016: 21.

Those Were The Days

Glaeser, Edward L. "Those Were The Days." Review of The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War, by Robert J. Gordon. Wall Street Journal, 267.13, January 16, 2016: C5-C7.

They Can Take It If They Want It

Glaeser, Edward L. "They Can Take It If They Want It." Review of The Grasping Hand, by Ilya Somin. Wall Street Journal, July 2015.

What a City Needs

Glaeser, Edward L. "What a City Needs." Review of Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, by Anthony Flint. New Republic, 240.16, September 9, 2009: 42-45.

Foreclosing the Crisis

Glaeser, Edward L. "Foreclosing the Crisis." Review of The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth, by Robert C. Ellickson. New Republic, 240.1, February 4, 2009: 45-47.

Auto-Emancipation

Glaeser, Edward L. "Auto-Emancipation." Review of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do: And What It Says About Us, by Tom Vanderbilt New Republic, 239.2, August 13, 2008: 36-39.

Review of A Companion to Urban Economics

Glaeser, Edward L. Review of A Companion to Urban Economics, Ed. Richard J. Arnott and Daniel P. McMillen. Journal of Regional Science, 47.5 December 2007: 994-999.

The Wealth of One Nation

Glaeser, Edward L. "The Wealth of One Nation." Review of A Farewell to Arms, by Gregory Clark. New York Sun, September 19, 2007.

Review of The Creative Class

Glaeser, Edward L. Review of The Creative Class, by Richard Florida. Harvard Economics Department, May 2004.