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
Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Simone Matecna. "Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Baum, Matthew A., Adam J. Berinsky, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Joohye Jeong, Zachary Markovich, and Teppei Yamamoto. "Dynamic Persuasion: Decay and Accumulation of Partisan Media Persuasion." March 2025.
Ashraf, Nava, Alexia Delfino, Edward L. Glaeser, and Irene Solmone. "The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Liu, Naijia, Xinlan Emily Hu, Yasemin Savas, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, Allison J.B. Chaney, Christopher Lucas, Rei Mariman, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Andrew M. Guess, Dean Knox, and Brandon M. Stewart. "Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube." PNAS 122.8 (February 25, 2025): e2318127122.
Lira, Benjamin, Todd Rogers, Daniel G. Goldstein, Lyle Ungar, and Angela L. Duckworth. "Learning not cheating: AI assistance can enhance rather than hinder skill development." 22 February 2025.
Glaeser, Edward L. "ADB Distinguished Speaker Lecture: The Complementarity Between Cities and State Capacity." Asian Development Review (February 11, 2025).
Ang, Desmond and Sahil Chinoy. "Vanguard: Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I." NBER Working Paper Series, February 2025.
Glaeser, Edward, and Ian Goldin. "Rebuilding Kharkiv: Economic Strategy." United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, December 2, 2024.
Glaeser, Edward L. "The Complementarity Between Cities and State Capacity." NBER Working Paper Series, December 2024.
Cutler, David, and Edward Glaeser. "The Mysteries of Cities and Economic Growth." Finance & Development Magazine. December 2024.
Fagan, Mark L. Supply Chain Management: A Public Sector Perspective. Cheltanham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
Salazar-Miranda, Arianna, Zhuangyuan Fan, Michael B. Baick, Keith N. Hampton, Fabio Duarte, Becky P.Y. Loo, Edward L. Glaeser, and Carlo Ratti. "Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I." NBER Working Paper Series, November 2024.
Peterson, Paul E., and Nora Gordon. "What We Know about Our Schools." Hoover Institution, October 24, 2024.
Voelkel, Jan, Michael Stagnaro, James Chu... Julia Minson, et al. "Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity." Science 386.6719 (October 18, 2024): eadh4764.
Peterson, Paul E. "Would a Trump Victory Really Be Good for School Choice?" School Choice 24.4 (Fall 2024).
Kakani, Pragya, Michael Anne Kyle, Amitabh Chandra, and Luca Maini. "Medicare Part D Protected-Class Policy Is Associated With Lower Drug Rebates." Health Affairs 43.10 (October 2024): 1420-1427.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "Is the United States undergoing a manufacturing renaissance that will boost the middle class?" PIEE Policy Brief Series, October 2024.
Tulan, Dilan, Charles A. Dorison, Nancy Gibbs, and Julia A. Minson. "Can Conversational Receptiveness Build Trust in the Media?" Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (August 2, 2024).
Agarwal, Sumit D., Benjamin Lê Cook, and Jeffrey B. Liebman. "Effect of Cash Benefits on Health Care Utilization and Health: A Randomized Study." JAMA (July 22, 2024).
DeLuca, Kevin, Daniel J. Moskowitz, and Benjamin Schneer. "A Drag on the Ticket? Estimating Top-of-the-Ticket Effects on Down-Ballot Races." July 19, 2024.
Shulman, Hillary C., David M. Markowitz, and Todd Rogers. "Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing." Science Advances 10.23 (7 Jun 2024): eadn2555.
Bilmes, Linda J., and Cornell Brooks. "Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10.2 (June 2024): 30-67.
Glied, Sherry, and Amitabh Chandra. "It Is Time to Consider More Price Regulation in Health Care." JAMA Forum 5.6 (June 2024): e242342.
Barza, Radu, Edward L. Glaeser, César A. Hidalgo, and Martina Viarengo. "Cities as Engines of Opportunities: Evidence from Brazil." NBER Working Paper Series, May 2024.
Gaudette, Jennifer, and Justin de Benedictis-Kessner. "Local Money: Evaluating the Effects of Municipal Campaign Contributions on Housing Policy Outcomes." April 23, 2024.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Can Prevention Save Money?" JAMA Health Forum 6.4 (April 3, 2025): e251464.
Bor, Jacob H., David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, and Ljubica Ristovska. "Human Capital Spillovers and Health: Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?" NBER Working Paper Series, April 2024.
Vogel, Matthew, Rena M. Conti, and Amitabh Chandra. "Biopharma Venture Capital And The Inflation Reduction Act." Health Affairs Forefront (March 5, 2024).
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Michael Hankinson. "How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy." Political Behavior 46.1 (March 2024): 609-629.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Investing in Long-Term Health." JAMA Forum 5.2 (February 2024): e240193.
Abbiasov, Timur, Cate Heine, Sadegh Sabouri, Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Paolo Santi, Edward Glaeser, and Carlo Ratti. "The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data." Nature Human Behavior (5 February 2024).
Vogel, Matthew, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra, and Rena M. Conti. "Medicare price negotiation and pharmaceutical innovation following the Inflation Reduction Act." Nature Biotechnology (31 January 2024).
McIntyre, Adrianna, Mark Shepard, and Timothy J. Layton. "Small Marketplace Premiums Pose Financial And Administrative Burdens: Evidence From Massachusetts, 2016–17." Health Affairs 43.1 (January 2024).
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "The Electoral and Policy Effects of Election Timing in City and County Government." December 23, 2023.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "Where the Sidewalk Ends: How Participation Contributes to Inequity in Basic Government Service Provision." December 23, 2023.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Diana Da In Lee, Yamil R. Velez, and Christopher Warshaw. "American local government elections database." Scientific Data 10 (December 19, 2023).
Palmer, Maxwell, Benjamin Schneer, and Kevin DeLuca. "A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure." Political Analysis (December 13, 2023): 1-16.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Louis-Jonas Heizlsperger. "The Great Resignation, Employment, and Wages in Health Care." NEJM Catalyst, December 4, 2023.
Moore, Molly, Charles A. Dorison, and Julia Minson. "The contingent reputational benefits of selective exposure to partisan information." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 152.12 (December 2023): 3490-3525.
Currier, Lindsey, Edward L. Glaeser, and Gabriel E. Kreindler. "Infrastructure Inequality: Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?" NBER Working Paper Series, December 2023.
Vogel, Matthew, Olivia Zhao, William B. Feldman, Amitabh Chandra, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and Benjamin N. Rome. "Cost of Exempting Sole Orphan Drugs From Medicare Negotiation." JAMA Internal Medicine (November 27, 2023).
Collins, Hanne K., Julia A. Minson, Ariella Kristal, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Conveying and Detecting Listening During Live Conversation." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2023): 1-22.
Peterson, Paul E., and M. Danish Shakeel. "The Nation’s Charter Report Card: A New Ranking of States by Charter Student Performance." Journal of School Choice (2023).
Ang, Desmond, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt. "Community Engagement with Law Enforcement after High-Profile Acts of Police Violence." October 2023.
Wittenberg, Chloe, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, and Teppei Yamamoto. "Media Measurement Matters: Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Partisan Media with Survey and Behavioral Data." The Journal of Politics 85.4 (October 2023): 1275-1290.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Benedic Ippolito. "What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Mean for Patients and Physicians?" NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 4.10 (September 20, 2023).
Liu, Naijia, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, Allison J.B. Chaney, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Andy Guess, Dean Knox, Christopher Lucas, Rachel Mariman, and Brandon M. Stewart. "Algorithmic recommendations have limited effects on polarization: A naturalistic experiment on YouTube." September 18, 2023.
Rogers, Todd, and Jessica Lasky-Fink. Writing for Busy Readers. Penguin Random House, 2023.
Shepard, Mark, and Myles Wagner. "Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment." August 23, 2023.
Chandra, Amitabh, Carrie H. Colla, and Jonathan S. Skinner. "Productivity Variation and Input Misallocation: Evidence from Hospitals." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-024, August 2023.