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
Beck, Colin J., Mlada Bukovansky, Erica Chenoweth, George Lawson, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, and Daniel P. Ritter. On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Aldy, Joseph, and Armitage, Sarah. "The Welfare Implications of Carbon Price Certainty." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-003, May 2022.
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
Carter, Ashton B. "The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines." Daedalus 151.2 (Spring 2022): 299-308.
Domash, Alex, and Lawrence H. Summers. "A labor market view on the risks of a U.S. hard landing." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2022.
Sun, Hongwei, Sebastian Eastham, and David Keith. "Developing a Plume-in-Grid Model for Plume Evolution in the Stratosphere." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14.4 (April 2022): e2021MS002816.
Cohen, Dara Kay, and Sabrina Karim. "Does More Equality for Women Mean Less War? Rethinking Sex and Gender Inequality and Political Violence." International Organization 76.2 (Spring 2022): 414-444.
Kayyem, Juliette. The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters. PublicAffairs, 2022.
Holdren, John, Nina Fedoroff, Neal Lane, Nick Talbot, and Toby Spribille. "Let’s not abandon Russian scientists." Science, 376.6590, March 2022, 256-257.
Saghafian, Soroush, Lina D. Song, and Ali S. Raja. "Towards a more efficient healthcare system: Opportunities and challenges caused by hospital closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic." Health Care Management Science 25 (June 2022).
Aldy, Joseph, Max Auffhammer, Maureen Cropper, Art Fraas, and Dick Morgenstern. "Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act." Journal of Economic Literature 60.1 (March 2022): 179-232.
Pressman, Jeremy, Erica Chenoweth, Tommy Leung, L. Nathan Perkins, and Jay Ulfelder. "Protests Under Trump, 2017-2021." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 27.1 (March 2022): 13-26.
Chenoweth, Erica and Zoe Marks. "Revenge of the Patriarchs: Why Autocrats Fear Women Essays." Foreign Affairs 101.2 (March/April 2022): 103-116.
Bilmes, Linda J., and Cornell William Brooks. "The GI Bill was one of the worst racial injustices of the 20th century. Congress can fix it." Boston Globe. February 23, 2022.
Stavins, Robert N. "What will happen with US climate policy under the Biden Administration?" Greening Europe's Post-COVID-19 Recovery. Ed. Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram B. Wolff, and Georg Zachmann. Bruegel, February 2022, 140-151.
Domash, Alex, and Lawrence H. Summers. "How Tight Are U.S. Labor Markets?" NBER Working Paper Series, February 2022.
Haftel, Yoram, Soo Yeon Kim, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "High-Income Developing Countries, FDI Outflows and the International Investment Agreement Regime." World Trade Review 21.1 (February 2022): 1-17.
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem, and Chagai M. Weiss. "Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel." Comparative Political Studies 55.2 (February 2022): 287-318.
Emery, Eleanor H., Jonathan D. Shaffer, Danny McCormick, Jessica Zeidman, Sophia R. Geffen, Predrag Stojicic, Marshall Ganz and Gaurab Basu. "Preparing Doctors in Training for Health Activist Roles: A Cross-Institutional Community Organizing Workshop for Incoming Medical Residents." MedEdPORTAL 18 (2022): 11208.
Stavins, Robert N. "The Relative Merits of Carbon Pricing Instruments: Taxes versus Trading." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 16.1 (Winter 2022): 62-82.
Gordon, Sue, and Eric Rosenbach. "America's Cyber-Reckoning: How to Fix a Failing Strategy." Foreign Affairs 101.1 (January/February 2022): 10-21.
Sarin, Natasha, Lawrence Summers, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick. "Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform." Tax Policy and the Economy 36 (2022): 1-33.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Spaceship or Stewardship: Imaginaries of Sustainability in the Information Age." Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 47.4 (2022): 29-47.
Moch, Jonathan M., William Xue, and John P. Holdren. "Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: Technologies and costs in the U.S. context." Environment and Natural Resources Program Brief Series, January 2022.
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Zhi Liu, eds. Infrastructure economics and policy: international perspectives. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021.
Lee, Henry, Daniel P. Schrag, Matthew Bunn, Michael Davidson, Wei Peng, Wang Pu, and Mao Zhimin. Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and Lawrence H. Summers. "Rethinking Multilateralism for a Pandemic Era." Finance & Development (December 2021): 4-9.
Allison, Graham, Kevin Klyman, Karina Barbesino and Hugo Yen. "The Great Tech Rivalry: China vs the U.S." Avoiding Great Power War Project Paper Series, December 2021.
Bunn, Matthew. "Enabling a Significant Nuclear Role in China’s Decarbonization: Loosening Constraints, Mitigating Risks." Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China. Ed. Lee, Henry, Daniel P. Schrag, Matthew Bunn, Michael Davidson, Wei Peng, Wang Pu, and Mao Zhimin. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 65-100.
Lee, Henry. "Infrastructure and Climate Change." Infrastructure Economics and Policy. Ed. José Gómez-Ibáñez and Zhi Liu. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021, 437-460.
Falco, Gregory J. and Eric Rosenbach. Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Keith, David. "Toward constructive disagreement about geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (November 2021): 812-815.
Joseph E. Aldy, Tyler Felgenhauer, William A. Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Mariia Belaia, Mark E. Borsuk, Arunabha Ghosh, Garth Heutel, Daniel Heyen, Joshua Horton, David Keith, Christine Merk, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Jesse L. Reynolds, Katharine Ricke, Wilfried Rickels, Soheil Shayegh, Wake Smith, Simone Tilmes, Gernot Wagner, and Jonathan B. Wiener. "Social science research to inform solar geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (2021): 815-818.
Aldy, Joseph et al. "Social Science Research to Inform Solar Geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (2021): 815-818.
Hahn, Robert and Robert Stavins. "Why cap-and-trade should (and does) have appeal to politicians." Combatting Climate Change: a CEPR Collection. Ed. Beatrice Weder di Mauro. CEPR Press, 2021, 259-264.
Chyba, Chrisopher F., Christine K. Cassel, Susan L. Graham, John P. Holdren, Ed Penhoet, William H. Press, Maxine Savitz, and Harold Varmus. "Create a COVID-19 commission." Science 376.6570 (November 2021): 932-935.
Stavins, Robert N., and Sheila M. Olmstead. "Environmental Insights: Conversations on policy and practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program." Harvard Environmental Economics Program, October 2021.
De Blasio, Nicola, Fridolin Pflugmann, Henry Lee, Charles Hua, Alejandro Nunez-Jimenez, and Phoebe Fallon. "Mission Hydrogen: Accelerating the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy." Environment and Natural Resources Program Reports, October 2021.
Aldy, Joseph. "Addressing the Leakage and Competitiveness Risks of Climate Policy." RFF Issue Briefs, October 2021.
Behrer, A.P., R.J. Park, G. Wagner, C.M. Golja, and David Keith. "Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas." Environmental Research Communications 3.9 (September 2021): 095001.
Bai, Jie, Maggie Chen, Jin Liu, and Daniel Yi Xu. "Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-037, November 2020; Updated September 2021.
Aldy, Joseph, Matthew L. Kotchen, Robert N. Stavins, and James H. Stock. "Keep Climate Policy Focused on the Social Cost of Carbon." Science 373.6557 (2021): 850-852.
Belaia, Mariia, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, and David Keith. "Optimal climate policy in 3D: mitigation, carbon removal, and solar geoengineering." Climate Change Economics 12.3 (August 2021): 2150008.
Savoia, Elena, Rachael Piltch-Loeb, Beth Goldberg, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Brian Hughes, Alberto Montrond, Juliette Kayyem, and Marcia A. Testa. "Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Socio-Demographics, Co-Morbidity, and Past Experience of Racial Discrimination." Vaccines 9.7 (July 2021): 767.
Haass, Richard, Joseph Nye, Célestin Monga, and Ian Buruma. "Joe Biden n’a pas droit à l’erreur." SAY 22.4 (July 2021): 94.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "America’s False Imbalance Syndrome." The Project Syndicate, June 2021.
Edmonds, James, Sha Yu, Haewon Mcjeon, Dirk Forrister, Joseph Aldy, Nathan Hultman, Ryna Cui, Stephanie Waldhoff, Leon Clarke, Stefano de Clara, and Clayton Munnings. "How much could article 6 enhance nationally determined contribution ambition toward paris agreement goals through economic efficiency?" Climate Change Economics 12.2 (2021).
Holdren, John P. "Climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic: Why everybody should care." The Hill, June 9, 2021.
Kessi, Shose, Zoe Marks, and Elelwani Ramugondo. "Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom." Critical African Studies 13.1 (June 2021): 1-9.
Felgenhauer, Tyler, Joshua Horton, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come?" Environmental Politics 31.3 (2022): 498-518.
Felgenhauer, Tyler, Joshua Horton, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come?" Environmental Politics 31.3 (June 2021): 498-518.