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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

The Cost of Money is Part of the Cost of Living: New Evidence on the Consumer Sentiment Anomaly

Bolhuis, Marijn A., Judd N. L. Cramer, Karl Oskar Schulz, and Lawrence H. Summers. "The Cost of Money is Part of the Cost of Living: New Evidence on the Consumer Sentiment Anomaly." NBER Working Paper Series, February 2024.

Three Key Issues for Post-pandemic Monetary Policy

Summers, Lawrence H. "Three Key Issues for Post-pandemic Monetary Policy." Cato Policy Report, November/December 2022.

Bad news for the Fed from the Beveridge space

Blanchard, Olivier, Alex Domash, and Lawrence Summers. "Bad news for the Fed from the Beveridge space." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs, July 2022.

A Balance-Sheet Model of Fiscal
Policy in Namibia

Sturzenegger, Federico, and Nicolas Der Meguerditchian. "A Balance-Sheet Model of Fiscal Policy in Namibia." Red Nacionale de Investigadores en Economia (RedNIE), April 2022.

A labor market view on the risks of a U.S. hard landing

Domash, Alex, and Lawrence H. Summers. "A labor market view on the risks of a U.S. hard landing." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2022.

How Tight Are U.S. Labor Markets?

Domash, Alex, and Lawrence H. Summers. "How Tight Are U.S. Labor Markets?" NBER Working Paper Series, February 2022.

A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates

Furman, Jason, and Lawrence H. Summers. "A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates." November 30, 2020.

Automatic Stabilizers in a Low-Rate Environment

Banchard, Olivier, and Lawrence H. Summers. "Automatic Stabilizers in a Low-Rate Environment." Peterson Institute for International Economics, February 2020.

Tax Reform for Progressivity: A Pragmatic Approach

Sarin, Natasha, Lawrence Summers, and Joe Kupferberg. "Tax Reform for Progressivity: A Pragmatic Approach." The Hamilton Project, January 2020.

Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel

Eggertsson, Gauti B., Ragnar E. Juelsrud, Lawrence H. Summers, and Ella Getz Wold. "Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel." January 2019.

Aging, Output Per Capita and Secular Stagnation

Eggertsson, Gauti B., Manuel Lancastre, and Lawrence H. Summers. "Aging, Output Per Capita and Secular Stagnation." National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2018.

On Market-Based Approaches to the Valuation of Capital

Sarin, Natasha, and Lawrence H. Summers. "On Market-Based Approaches to the Valuation of Capital." June 2018.

On Market-Based Approaches to the Valuation of Capital

Sarin, Natasha, and Lawrence H. Summers. "On Market-Based Approaches to the Valuation of Capital." June 2018.

How Globalization Affects Tax Design

Hines, James R., and Lawrence H. Summers. "How Globalization Affects Tax Design." NBER Working Papers 14664, January 2009.

Towards a New Asian Development Bank in a New Asia.

Panitchpakdi, Supachai (Chair), Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Nobuyuki Idei, Caio Koch-Weser, Justin Yifu Lin, and Lawrence H. Summers. "Towards a New Asian Development Bank in a New Asia." Report of the Eminent Persons Group to the President of the Asian Development Bank, April 2, 2007.