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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

The Reversal Problem: Development Going Backwards

Olaberria, Eduardo, and Carmen Reinhart. "The Reversal Problem: Development Going Backwards." Credibility of Emerging Markets, Foreign Investors' Risk Perceptions, and Capital Flows. Ed. Álvaro Aguirre, Andrés Fernández, and Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan. Central Bank of Chile, 2023, 301-314.

China’s overseas lending and the war in Ukraine

Horn, Sebastian, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. "China’s overseas lending and the war in Ukraine." Global Economic Consequences of the War in Ukraine: Sanctions, Supply Chains and Sustainability. Ed. Luis Garicano, Dominic Rohner, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro. CEPR Press, September 2022.

Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes

Ilzetzki, Ethan, Carmen Reinhart, and Kenneth Rogoff. "Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes." Handbook of International Economics. Ed. Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman, and Kenneth S. Rogoff. Elsevier, 2022, 91-145.

The Triffin Dilemma, Chinese Opacity, and Capital Mobility: Concluding Remarks on International Macroeconomic Policy

Reinhart, Carmen. "The Triffin Dilemma, Chinese Opacity, and Capital Mobility: Concluding Remarks on International Macroeconomic Policy." Evolution or Revolution? Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy after the Great Recession. MIT Press, 2019.

Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises: Some Lessons Learned and Those Forgotten

Reinhart, Carmen, and Kenneth Rogoff. "Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises: Some Lessons Learned and Those Forgotten." Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses. Ed. Stijn Claessens, M. Ayhan Kose, Luc Laeven, and Fabian Valencia. International Monetary Fund, 2014.

Crowding Out Redefined: The Role of Reserve Accumulation

Reinhart, Carmen, and Takeshi Tashiro. "Crowding Out Redefined: The Role of Reserve Accumulation." Prospects for Asia and the Global Economy. Ed. Reuven Glick, and Mark M. Spiegel. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2014, 1-43.