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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

Collaborative Governance

Donahue, John D., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Collaborative Governance." Milkin Institute Review. July 2011.

The Real Stakes of Getting Tough with Public Workers

Donahue, John D. "The Real Stakes of Getting Tough with Public Workers." Government Finance Review. April 2011.

The Upside of the Downturn

Donahue, John D. "The Upside of the Downturn." Governing.com (Governing Magazine). November 5, 2008.

The Next FEMA

Donahue, John D., and Max Steir. "The Next FEMA." Washington Monthly. November/December 2008.

What Government Does

Donahue, John D. "What Government Does." Governing.com (Governing Magazine). July 23, 2008.

The Right Kind of Accountability

Donahue, John D. "The Right Kind of Accountability." Governing.com (Governing Magazine). April 16, 2008.

The Labor Department's Strange Stretch of Innovation.

Donahue, John D. "The Labor Department's Strange Stretch of Innovation." Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (September 2007).

The End of the End of Government.

Donahue, John D. "The End of the End of Government." Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (May 2007).

Want to Buy a Used Road?

Donahue, John D. "Want to Buy a Used Road?" Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (February 2007).

Public Management’s Uncertain Future.

Donahue, John D. "Public Management’s Uncertain Future." Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (November 15, 2006).

Government’s Twisted Transformation.

Donahue, John D. "Government’s Twisted Transformation." Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (September 13, 2006).

Outsourcing Perversity.

Donahue, John. D. "Outsourcing Perversity." Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (July 5, 2006).

Innovating Against the Odds.

Donahue, John D. "Innovating Against the Odds." Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (April 26, 2006).

The Siren Song of 'The Other Thing.'

Donahue, John D. "The Siren Song of 'The Other Thing.'" Governing.com (Governing Magazine) (February 22, 2006).