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Delivery worker wearing a medical mask and carrying packages.
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

How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey

Bartik, Alexander W., Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher T. Stanton. "How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-012, May 2020.

Securing Property Rights

Glaeser, Edward L., Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, and Andrei Shleifer. "Securing Property Rights." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-040, September 2016.

Urban Networks: Connecting
Markets, People, and Ideas

Glaeser, Edward L., Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, and Yimei Zou. "Urban Networks: Connecting Markets, People, and Ideas." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-078, December 2015.

Big Data and Big Cities: The
Promises and Limitations of
Improved Measures for Urban
Life

Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik. "Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures for Urban Life." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-075, December 2015.

Do People Shape Cities, or Do
Cities Shape People? The Co-
Evolution of Physical, Social,
and Economic Change in Five
Major U.S. Cities

Naik, Nikhil, Scott Duke Kominers, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, and César A. Hidalgo. "Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co- Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-061, October 2015.

A Theory of Civil Disobedience

Glaeser, Edward L., and Cass R. Sunstein. "A Theory of Civil Disobedience." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-036, July 2015.

An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics

Glaeser, Edward L., and Charles G. Nathanson. "An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-012, March 2015.

What Do Parents Want? An Exploration of School Preferences Expressed by Boston Parents

Glaeser, Edward L., Steve Poftak, and Kristina Tobio. "What Do Parents Want? An Exploration of School Preferences Expressed by Boston Parents." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-024, July 2013.

Arbitrage in Housing Markets.

Glaeser, Edward L., and Joseph Gyourko. "Arbitrage in Housing Markets." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-017, March 2008.

Social Interactions and Smoking.

Cutler, David, and Edward L. Glaeser. "Social Interactions and Smoking." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-018, March 2008.

Extremism and Social Learning

Glaeser, Edward L., and Cass R. Sunstein. "Extremism and Social Learning." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-004, January 2008.

The Economic Approach to Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. "The Economic Approach to Cities." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, and NBER Working Papers (RWP08-003, 2149 and 13696), January 2008.

Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?

Glaeser, Edward L., and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto. "Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-002, January 2008.

Myths and Realities of American Political Geography.

Glaeser, Edward L. and Bryce A. Ward. "Myths and Realities of American Political Geography." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP06-007, February 2006.

Paternalism and Psychology.

Glaeser, Edward L. "Paternalism and Psychology." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP06-006 (also HIER Discussion Paper 2097), February 2006.

Inequality.

Glaeser, Edward L. "Inequality." Harvard Institute of Economic Research, NBER, and KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-056, October 2005.

Divergence of Human Capital Levels across Cities.

Berry, Christopher R., and Edward L. Glaeser. "Divergence of Human Capital Levels across Cities." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-057, October 2005 (also NBER Working Paper 11617).