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
Palmer, Maxwell, Benjamin Schneer, and Kevin DeLuca. "A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define-Combine Procedure." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-012, August 2022.
Blankart, Katharina, Huseyin Naci, and Amitabh Chandra. "Availability of New Medicines in the US and Germany From 2004 to 2018." JAMA Network Open 5.8 (August 30, 2022): e2229231.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, Daniel Jones, and Christopher Warshaw. "How Partisanship in Cities Influences Housing Policy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-035, August 2022.
Wharam, J. Frank, Jamie Wallace, Stephanie Argetsinger, Fang Zhang, Christine Y. Lu, Tomasz P. Stryjewski, Dennis Ross-Degnan, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Diabetes Microvascular Disease Diagnosis and Treatment After High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollment." Diabetes Care 45.8 (August 2022): 1754-1761.
Ristea, Alina, Riley Tucker, Shunan You, Mehrnaz Amiri, Nicholas Beauchamp, Edgar Castro, Qiliang Chen, Alexandra Ciomek, Bidisha Das, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Sage Gibbons, Forrest Hangen, Barrett Montgomery, Petros Papadopoulos, Cordula Robinson, Saina Sheini, Michael Shields, Xin Shu, Michael Wood, Babak Heydari, and Dan O’Brien. "A multisource database tracking the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the communities of Boston, MA, USA." Scientific Data 9.1 (June 20, 2022): 330.
Resch, Tobias and Benjamin Schneer. "Policy Consequences of Civil Society: Evidence from German-American Counter-Mobilization to Prohibition." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-004, June 2022.
Naci, Huseyin, Ilias Kyriopoulos, William B. Feldman, Thomas J. Hwang, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and Amitabh Chandra. "Coverage of New Drugs in Medicare Part D." The Milbank Quarterly 100.2 (June 2022): 562-588.
Dorison, Charles A., and Julia A. Minson. "You can’t handle the truth! Conflict counterparts over-estimate each other’s feelings of self-threat." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 170 (May 2022): 104147.
Glaeser, Edward L. "What can developing cities today learn from the urban past?" Regional Science and Urban Economics 94 (May 2022): 103698.
Minson, Julia, and Frances S. Chen. "Receptiveness to Opposing Views: Conceptualization and Integrative Review." Personality and Social Psychology Review 26.2 (May 2022): 93-111.
Kong, Edward, Mark Shepard, and Adrianna McIntyre. "Turnover in Zero-Premium Status Among Health Insurance Marketplace Plans Available to Low-Income Enrollees." JAMA Health Forum 3.4 (April 2022): e220674.
Jeong, Martha, Julia Minson, and Francesca Gino. "Psychological shortcomings to optimal negotiation behavior: Intrapersonal and interpersonal challenges." Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. Ed. Paul A. M. Van Lange, E. Tory Higgins, and Arie W. Kruglanski. The Guilford Press, 2022, 532–544.
King, David C., Benjamin Schneer, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-015, April 2022.
Chen, Jiafeng, Edward Glaeser, and David Wessel. "JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices." Journal of Urban Economics (April 1, 2022): 103451.
Bosio, Erica, Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, and Andrei Shleifer. "Public Procurement in Law and Practice." American Economic Review 112.4 (April 2022): 1091-1117.
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics. Ed. Katharine G. Abraham , Ron S. Jarmin , Brian C. Moyer and Matthew D. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 249-274.
Minson, Julia, and Francesca Gino. "Managing a Polarized Workforce." Harvard Business Review 100.3-4 (March 2022): 63-71.
Robinson, Carly D., Raj Chande, Simon Burgess, and Todd Rogers. "Parent Engagement Interventions Are Not Costless: Opportunity Cost and Crowd Out of Parental Investment." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 44.1 (March 2022): 170-177.
Houston, David M., Michael Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. "Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 44.1 (March 2022): 105-126.
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.
Austin, James, Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Ed. Peter Gianiodis, Maritza Espina, and William R Meek. World Scientific, 2022, 175-196.
McIntyre, Adrianna, and Mark Shepard. "Automatic Insurance Policies — Important Tools for Preventing Coverage Loss." The New England Journal of Medicine 386.5 (February 2022): 408-411.
Minson, Julia, and Charles A. Dorison. "Toward a psychology of attitude conflict." Current Opinion in Psychology 43 (February 2022): 182-188.
Shepard, Mark. "Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange." American Economic Review 112.2 (February 2022): 578-615.
Djankov, Simeon, Edward Glaeser, Valeria Perotti, and Andrei Shleifer. "Property Rights and Urban Form." The Journal of Law and Economics 65.1 (February 2022): S35-S64.
Henderson, Michael B., David M. Houston, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. "Parent Poll Reveals Support for School Covid-Safety Measures Despite Vaccine Hesitancy, Partisan Polarization: Private-school parents report less learning loss, greater satisfaction with pandemic schooling." Education Next 22.1 (Winter 2022): 25-36.
Michael B. Henderson, David M. Houston, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. "Hunger for Stability Quells Appetite for Change: Results of the 2021 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion." Education Next 22.1 (Winter 2022): 8-26.
Cook, Cody, Lindsey Currier, and Edward L. Glaeser. "Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2022.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Urban resilience." Urban Studies 59.1 (January 2022): 3-35.
Glaeser, Edward L., Caitlin Gorback, and Stephen J. Redding. "JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities." Journal of Urban Economics 127 (January 2022): 103292.
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel, Edward L. Glaeser, and Stuart S. Rosenthal. "The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction." Journal of Urban Economics 127 (January 2022): 103428.
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Zhi Liu, eds. Infrastructure economics and policy: international perspectives. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021.
Schwartz, Aaron L., Khalil Zlaoui, Robin P. Foreman, Troyen A. Brennan, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Health Care Utilization and Spending in Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis." JAMA Health Forum 2.12 (December 2021): e214001.
Shakeel, M. Danish, and Paul E. Peterson. "A Half Century of Progress in U. S. Student Achievement: Ethnic and SES Differences; Agency and Flynn Effects." Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series, December 2021.
Glaeser, Edward L., Karima Kourtit, and Peter Nijkamp. "New urban challenges: Shared spaces in smart places – Overview and positioning." Land Use Policy 111 (December 2021): 105672.
Moore, Molly, Charles Dorison, and Julia Minson. "The Role of Social Signaling in Selective Exposure to Information." November 2021.
Cutler, David M., and Edward L. Glaeser. "When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic." Journal of Economic Perspectives 35.4 (Fall 2021).
John Hsu, Chia Yi Chin, Max Weiss, Michael Cohen, Jay Sastry, Nina Katz-Christy, John Bertko, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Growth In ACA-Compliant Marketplace Enrollment And Spending Risk Changes During The COVID-19 Pandemic." Health Affairs 40.11 (November 2021): 1722-1730.
Shepard, Mark, and Ethan Forsgren. "Do Insurers Respond to Active Purchasing? Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange." October 15, 2021.
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, Carly D. Robinson, Hedy Nai-Lin Chang, and Todd Rogers. "Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications: The Case of Truancy Notifications." Educational Researcher 50.7 (October 2021): 442-450.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Kathryn Carlson. "What the Next Mayor Needs to Do About Boston's Transportation Crisis." Boston Area Research Initiative White Paper Series, September 2021.
Ang, Desmond, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt. "Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-022, September 2021.
Glaeser, Edward L., Ginger Z. Jin, Benjamin T. Leyden, and Michael Luca. "Learning from deregulation: The asymmetric impact of lockdown and reopening on risky behavior during COVID-19." Journal of Regional Science 61.4 (September 2021): 696-709.
Houston, David M., Michael Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. "Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 44.1 (August 2021): 105 -126.
Moura, Lidia M. V. R., Natalia Festa, Mary Price, Margarita Volya, Nicole M. Benson, Sahar Zafar, Max Weiss, Deborah Blacker, Sharon-Lise Normand, John Hsu, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 69.8 (August 2021): 2240-2251.
Glaeser, Edward L., and James Poterba. "Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment." Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz. Aspen Institute Press, 2021.
Ashraf, Nava, Edward Glaeser, Abraham Holland, and Bryce Millett Steinberg. "Water, Health and Wealth: The Impact of Piped Water Outages on Disease Prevalence and Financial Transactions in Zambia." Economica 88.351 (July 2021): 755-781.
Bernhard, Rachel, and Justin de Benedictis Kessner. "Men and Women Candidates Are Similarly Persistent After Losing Elections." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.26 (June 29, 2021).
Peterson, Paul E. "'Reopening Hesitancy' Threatens Fall 2021." Education Next 21.3 (Summer 2021): 76-78.
Cheng, Albert, and Paul E. Peterson. "School Choice and 'The Truly Disadvantaged': Vouchers boost college going, but not for students in greatest need." Education Next 21.3 (Summer 2021): 52-59.