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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

Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors

King, David C., Benjamin Schneer, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-015, April 2022.

The Management Performance of the U.S. States.

King, David C., Richard Zeckhauser, and Mark Kim. "The Management Performance of the U.S. States." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP04-028, July 2004.

Mobilizing the Party Faithful: Results from a Statewide Turnout Experiment in Michigan.

Nickerson, David W., Ryan D. Friedrich, and David C. King. "Mobilizing the Party Faithful: Results from a Statewide Turnout Experiment in Michigan." KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP04-018, April 2004.

Moving Voters in the 2000 Presidential Campaign: Local Visits, Local Media.

King, David C., and David Morehouse. "Moving Voters in the 2000 Presidential Campaign: Local Visits, Local Media." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP04-003, January 2004.