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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

Can One Retell a Mozambican Reform Story Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation?

Andrews, Matthew. "Can One Retell a Mozambican Reform Story Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-018, April 2014.

Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation

Andrews, Matthew, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock. "Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation." World Development 51 (November 2013): 234-244.

Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in Development

Andrews, Matthew. "Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in Development." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-040, October 2013.

Review of Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It

Andrews, Matthew. Review of Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It, by Morton Jerven. Governance, 26.4, October 2013: 696-698.

Do International Organizations
Really Shape Government Solutions in Developing Countries?

Andrews, Matthew. "Do International Organizations Really Shape Government Solutions in Developing Countries?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-032, September 2013.

How Do Governments Get Great?

Andrews, Matthew. "How Do Governments Get Great?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-020, June 2013.

Going Beyond Heroic-Leaders in Development

Andrews, Matthew. "Going Beyond Heroic-Leaders in Development." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-021, June 2013.

Who Really Leads Development?

Andrews, Matthew. "Who Really Leads Development?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-011, April 2013.

We Need to Radically Rethink Who Leads Development and What Hey Do

Andrews, Matthew. "We Need to Radically Rethink Who Leads Development and What Hey Do." Guardian, April 2, 2013.

The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

Andrews, Matthew. The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Andrews, Matthew, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock. "Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation." Journal of Development Studies 49(1) (January 2013): 1-18.

Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Matthew Andrews. "Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation." Journal of Development Studies 49.1 (January 2013): 1-18.

Escaping Capability Traps
through Problem-Driven
Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Andrews, Matt, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock. "Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-036, August 2012.

Developing Countries Will Follow Post-crisis OECD Reforms but Not Passively This Time

Andrews, Matthew. "Developing Countries Will Follow Post-crisis OECD Reforms but Not Passively This Time." Governance 25.1 (January 2012): 103–127.

Can Governance Indicators Make Sense? Towards a New Approach to Sector-Specific Measures of Governance

Andrews, Matthew. "Can Governance Indicators Make Sense? Towards a New Approach to Sector-Specific Measures of Governance." Oxford Development Studies 38.4 (December 2010): 391-410.

How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa?

Andrews, Matthew. "How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-018, May 2010.

Governance Indicators Can Make Sense:
Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example

Andrews, Matthew, Roger Hay, and Jerrett Myers. "Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-015, April 2010.

Development as Leadership-led
Change

Andrews, Matthew, Jesse McConnell, and Alison Wescott. "Development as Leadership-led Change." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-009, March 2010.

Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries

Andrews, Matthew. "Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries." Governance 23.1 (January 2010): 7-35.

Review of The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform

Andrews, Matthew. Review of The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform, by Donald P. Moynihan. Governance, 22.3, July 2009: 513-515.

Isomorphism and the Limits to African Public Financial Management Reform

Andrews, Matthew. "Isomorphism and the Limits to African Public Financial Management Reform." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-012, May 2009.

The Good Governance Agenda: Beyond Indicators Without Theory

Andrews, Matthew. "The Good Governance Agenda: Beyond Indicators Without Theory." Oxford Development Studies 36.4 (December 2008): 379-407.

Beyond 'The Answer' to Flexible Solutions in Managing Health in Africa

Andrews, Matthew. "Beyond 'The Answer' to Flexible Solutions in Managing Health in Africa." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-067, November 2008.

Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries

Andrews, Matthew. "Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-068, November 2008.

Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African Growth Catalyst? (Or Could it Be?)

Andrews, Matthew. "Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African Growth Catalyst? (Or Could it Be?)." Center for International Development Working Papers and ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series (170 and RWP08-033), June 2008.

Harvard Group Suggests Ways to Make BEE Live.

Andrews, Matthew. "Harvard Group Suggests Ways to Make BEE Live." Business Report (South Africa), May 12, 2008.

Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African Growth Catalyst? (Or Could it Be...)

Andrews, Matthew. "Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African Growth Catalyst? (Or Could it Be...)." Center for International Development Working Papers 170, May 2008.

Creating Space for Effective Political Engagement in Development

Andrews, Matthew. "Creating Space for Effective Political Engagement in Development." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-015, March 2008.

Are One-Best-Way Models of Effective Government Suitable for Developing Countries?

Andrews, Matthew. "Are One-Best-Way Models of Effective Government Suitable for Developing Countries?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-014, March 2008.