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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

Policy Surveillance: Its Role in Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluating and Learning

Aldy, Joseph. "Policy Surveillance: Its Role in Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluating and Learning." Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? Ed. Harro van Asselt, Johanna Forster, David Huitema, and Andy Jordan. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 210-229.

Comparing Emission Mitigation Pledges: Metrics and Institutions

Aldy, Joseph E., and William A. Pizer. "Comparing Emission Mitigation Pledges: Metrics and Institutions." Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime. Ed. Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro and Jaime de Melo. Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2015.

Comparing Countries' Climate Mitigation Efforts in a Post-Kyoto World

Aldy, Joseph, and William A. Pizer. "Comparing Countries' Climate Mitigation Efforts in a Post-Kyoto World." Implementing a US Carbon Tax: Challenges and Debates. Ed. Ian Parry, Adele Morris, and Roberton C. Williams III. Routledge, 2015.

Foreword

Aldy, Joseph. "Foreword." Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance. Ed. Todd L. Cherry, Jon Hovi, and David M. McEvoy. Routledge, 2014.

Environmental Risk and Uncertainty

Aldy, Joseph. "Environmental Risk and Uncertainty." Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty. Ed. Mark Machina and W. Kip Viscusi. Elsevier, January 2014, 601-649.

The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations

Aldy, Joseph. "The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations." Does Regulation Kill Jobs? Ed. Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and Christopher Carrigan. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Global Climate Change

Aldy, Joseph. "Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Global Climate Change." Handbook on Energy and Climate Change. Ed. Roger Fouquet. Edward Elgar, 2013.