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
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." American Economic Review 113.6 (June 2023): 1424-1460.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "How to Quench the American West’s Thirst." Project Syndicate, May 29, 2023.
Stansbury, Anna, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, and Karen Dynan. "Gender gaps in South Korea’s labour market: children explain most of the gender employment gap, but little of the gender wage gap." Applied Economics Letters (May 3, 2023).
Horn, Sebastian, Bradley C. Parks, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. "Debt Distress on China's Belt and Road." AEA Papers and Proceedings 113 (May 2023): 131-34.
Carlana, Michela, Eliana La Ferrara, and Carolina Lopez. "Exacerbated Inequalities: The Learning Loss from COVID-19 in Italy." AEA Papers and Proceedings 113 (May 2023): 489-493.
Diodato, Dario, Ricardo Hausmann, and Frank Neffke. "The Impact of Return Migration on Employment and Wages in Mexican Cities." Journal of Urban Economics 135 (May 2023): 103557.
Ho, Lisa, Emily Breza, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Fatima C. Stanford, Renato Fior, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Louis- Maël Jean, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, Esther Duflo, and Marcella Alsan. "The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials." AEA Papers and Proceedings 113 (May 2023): 653-658.
Alsan, Marcella, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang. "The Health of Democracies during the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment." AEA Papers and Proceedings 113 (May 2023): 572-576.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Debt Restructuring for Commodity Exporters." Project Syndicate, April 25, 2023.
Gulesci, Selim, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman, and H. Peyton Young. "A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-013, April 2023.
Barron, Patrick, Louise Cord, José Cuesta, Sabina Espinoza, Greg Larson, and Michael Woolcock. Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century. The World Bank, 2023.
Bordoff, Jason, and Meghan L. O'Sullivan. "The Age of Energy Insecurity: How the Fight for Resources Is Upending Geopolitics Essays." Foreign Affairs 102.3 (May/June 2023): 104-119.
Schwartz, Aaron L., Marcella Alsan, Alanna A. Morris, and Scott D. Halpern. "Why Diverse Clinical Trial Participation Matters." New England Journal of Medicine 388.14 (April 6, 2023): 1252-1254.
Ilzetzki, Ethan, Carmen Reinhart, and Kenneth Rogoff. "Exchange Rate Volatility and Monetary Policy." Vox EU, April 4, 2023.
Deming, David, Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Kerry McKittrick, Ali Epstein, and Emma Catalfamo. "Delivering on the Degree: The College-to-Jobs Playbook." Project on Workforce, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, April 2023.
Bùi, Thao-Nguyên, Tim Freeman, Ricardo Hausmann, Farah Kaddah, Lucas Lamby, Tim O’Brien, and Eric Protzer. "Housing in Wyoming: Constraints and Solutions." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, April 2023.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Ángel Santos, Jorge Tudela Pye, Frank Muci, Yang Li, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Ana Cristina Grisanti, and Jessie Lu. "Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Peruvian Amazonia." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, April 2023.
Rae, Ali I., Anam Noor Ehsan, Alan Yang, Hannah Gilder, Niteesh K. Choudhary, Justin B. Dimick, Marcella Alsan, Andrea Pusic, Kavitha L. Ranganathan. "The Epidemiology of Postoperative Catastrophic Health Expenditure in The United States." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open 11.4S (April 2023): 51.
Rodrik, Dani. "On Productivism." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-012, March 2023.
Horn, Sebastian, Bradley C. Parks, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Cristoph Trebesch. "China as an International Lender of Last Resort." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, March 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Fifty Years of Floating Currencies." Project Syndicate, March 20, 2023.
Barron, Patrick, Louise Cord, José Cuesta, Sabina A. Espinoza, Greg Larson, and Michael Woolcock. "Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century." World Bank Group, March 15, 2023.
Cohen, Dara. "Going Beyond Accountability to Deter Conflict-Related Sexual Violence." United States Institute of Peace, Analysis and Commentary, March 14, 2023.
Deming, David. "Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-011, March 2023.
Orrell, Brent, Greg Wright, Harry Holzer, Rachel Lipson, and David Deming. "What works in workforce development and how can it work better?" Brookings, March 8, 2023.
Cebul, Matthew, Erica Chenoweth, and Zoe Marks. "Youth and LGBTQ+ in Nonviolent Action: The WiRe+ Data Set." United States Institute of Peace (March 2023).
Alsan, Marcella, Crystal S. Yang, James R. Jolin, Lucy Tu, and Josiah D. Rich. "Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities — A Limited and Threatened Constitutional Right." New England Journal of Medicine 388 (March 2, 2023): 847-852.
Hanson, Gordon, and Matthew J. Slaughter. "How Commerce Can Save the Climate: The Case for a Green Free Trade Agreement." Foreign Affairs 102.2 (March/April 2023): 119-129.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., Yao Hou, and Danxia Xie. "Estimation of Nonlinear Exchange Rate Dynamics in Evolving Regimes." March 2023.
Bùi, Thao-Nguyên, Tim Freeman, Farah Kaddah, Lucas Lamby, Yang Li, Tim O’Brien, Eric Protzer, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Ricardo Villasmil, and Ricardo Hausmann. "A Growth Perspective on Wyoming." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, March 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense." Project Syndicate, February 24, 2023.
Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das, Asim I Khwaja, and Selçuk Özyurt. "Helping Schools Survive: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial and Educational Support to Private Schools." RISE Working Paper Series, February 2023.
Hadley, Stephen J., Peter D. Feaver, William C. Inboden, and Meghan L. O'Sullivan, eds. Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Krook, Mona Lena, and Pippa Norris. "Promoting gender equality in elected office." Handbook of Feminist Governance. Ed. Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola. Edward Elgar, 2023, 161-173.
Eichengreen, Barry, Ricardo Hausmann, and Ugo Panizza. "Yet it Endures: The Persistence of Original Sin." Open Economies Review 34 (February 2023): 1-42.
Andrabi, Tahir, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, Naureen Karachiwalla, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja. "Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-010, January 2023.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia." American Economic Review 113.2 (February 2023): 514-547.
Cheston, Timothy, Patricio Goldstein, Timothy Freeman, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Ricardo Hausmann, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Sebastián Bustos, Eduardo Lora, Sarah Bui, and Nidhi Rao. "Seeing the Forest for More Than the Trees: A Policy Strategy to Curb Deforestation and Advance Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, February 2023.
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson. "Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-007, January 2023.
Gaduh, Arya, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken. "The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-008, January 2023.
Hanson, Gordon H. "Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-005, January 2023.
Alsan, Marcella, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang. "The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-004, January 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Biden Should let the Game of Debt Ceiling Chicken Play Out." Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2023.
Cohen, Dara Kay, Danielle F. Jung, and Michael Weintraub. "Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective." Comparative Politics 55.2 (January 2023): 239-261.
Woolcock, Michael. "Assessing and Interpreting Complex Development Interventions: Three Key Principles and Two (Intractable?) Conundrums." Changing Dimensions of the International Development System: New Realities and Working Differently to Overcome Delivery Challenges. Ed. Horst Fischer, Maria Gonzales de Asis, and Anselm Schneider. Lit Verlag, 2023, 181-195.
Baqir, Reza, Ischac Diwan, and Dani Rodrik. "A framework to evaluate economic adjustment-cum-debt restructuring packages." Finance for Development Lab Working Paper Series, January 2023.
Chenoweth, Erica, Zoe Marks, Matthew Cebul, and Miranda Rivers. "Youth and LGBTQ+ Participation In Nonviolent Action." USAID, January 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Predictions that global economy is heading for a recession are premature." The Guardian, December 29, 2022.
Rodrik, Dani. "Technology, Globalisation and A Need for A New Model of Development (Mahboob ul Haq Lecture: Key Takeaways)." The Pakistan Development Review 61.1 (December 2022): 118-120.
Singh, J.P., and Michael Woolcock. "The Future of Multilateralism and Global Development: Opportunities for Constitutive and Functional Reform." Global Perspectives 3.1 (December 2022): 57594.