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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

“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership

Bowles, Hannah Riley, Jens Mazei, and Heidi H. Liu. "“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership." Perspectives on Psychological Science (March 18, 2024).

Are many sex/gender differences really power differences?

Galinsky, Adam D., Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah R. Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin, and Joe C. Magee. "Are many sex/gender differences really power differences?" PNAS Nexus 3.2 (February 2024): pgae025.

Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations

Martínez Orbegozo, Eva Flavia, Jorrit de Jong, Hannah Riley Bowles, Amy Edmondson, Anahide Nahhal, and Lisa Cox. "Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations." The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 58.4 (December 2022): 595-645.

Gender and Leadership: Exploring Novel Questions, Theories, and Boundary Conditions

Carnevale, Joel B., Rachael Goodwin, Hannah Riley Bowles, Jennifer R. Overbeck, Siting Wang, Lei Huang, Zhi Liu, Lin Wang, Mo Wang, Ying Wang, Lingtao Yu and Michael James Zyphur. "Gender and Leadership: Exploring Novel Questions, Theories, and Boundary Conditions." Academy of Management Proceedings 2022.1 (August 2022).

Reducing Barriers to Engaged Fatherhood: Three Principles for Promoting Gender Equity in Parenting

Bowles, Hannah Riley, Milton Kotelchuck, and Marc Grau Grau. "Reducing Barriers to Engaged Fatherhood: Three Principles for Promoting Gender Equity in Parenting." Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality. Ed. Marc Grau Grau, Mireia las Heras Maestro, and Hannah Riley Bowles. Springer, Cham, 2022.

Launching a Cross-disciplinary and Cross-national Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood

Grau Grau, Marc, and Hannah Riley Bowles. "Launching a Cross-disciplinary and Cross-national Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood." Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality. Ed. Marc Grau Grau, Mireia las Heras Maestro, and Hannah Riley Bowles. Springer, Cham, 2022.

When Gender Matters in Organizational Negotiations

Bowles, Hannah Riley, Bobbi Thomason, and Inmaculada Macias-Alonso. "When Gender Matters in Organizational Negotiations." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 9 (January 2022): 199-223.

Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality: Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives

Grau-Grau, Marc, Mireia las Heras Maestro, and Hannah Riley Bowles. Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality: Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives. Springer, 2021.

Who Negotiates and When? Individual Differences and Context Effects in Negotiation

Carnevale, Peter, Daniel Ames, Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Einav Hart, Hannah Riley Bowles, Jared R. Curhan, Nilajana Dasgupta, Noah Eisenkraft, Bobbi Thomason and Deborah Wu. "Who Negotiates and When? Individual Differences and Context Effects in Negotiation." Academy of Management Proceedings 2021.1 (August 2021).

Negotiating Your Next Job

Bowles, Hannah Riley, and Bobbi Thomason. "Negotiating Your Next Job." Harvard Business Review. January-February 2021.