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
Burns, Nicholas. "The Budget, Diplomacy and Development." U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 28, 2017.
Burns, Nicholas. "Trump鈥檚 Cuts Would Cripple the Country鈥檚 Diplomats When We Need Them Most." Washington Post, March 4, 2017.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Trump's Proposed Defense Splurge Flunks Basic Math." Boston Globe, March 2, 2017.
Chauvin, Juan Pablo, Edward Glaeser, Yueran Ma, and Kristina Tobio. "What Is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States." Journal of Urban Economics 98 (March 2017): 17-49.
Born, Dana, William H. Hendrix, and Emily Pate. "Three Pillars of Organization Excellence." The Journal of Character & Leadership Integration (Winter 2017): 45-54.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Trump's Ban Undermines Iraqi Cooperation Against Islamic State." Bloomberg View, January 31, 2017.
Aldy, Joseph. "Designing and Updating a US Carbon Tax in an Uncertain World." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-001, January 2017.
Goodman, Joshua, Michael Hurwitz, and Jonathan Smith. "Access to Four-Year Public Colleges And Degree Completion." Journal of Labor Economics (2017).
Schueler, Beth, Joshua Goodman, and David Deming. "Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 39.2 (January 2017): 311-332.
Kellerman, Barbara. "The Importance of Being Expert 鈥 Contextually Expert." The European Business Review (January/February 2017).
Bunn, Matthew, and Scott D. Sagan, eds. Insider Threats. Cornell University Press, 2017.
Goldsmith, Stephen and Jill Jamieson. "Tapping Private Financing and Delivery to Modernize America鈥檚 Federal Water Resources." U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources, January 2017.
Sebenius, James K., Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin, and L. Alexander Green. "Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa." December 2016.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Next American President Must Look to Europe First." Financial Times, November 3, 2016.
Norris, Pippa. "Why American Elections Are Flawed (and How to Fix Them)." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-038, September 2016.
Goodman, Joshua, Melkers, Julia, and Pallais, Amanda. "Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education?" 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-035, September 2016.
Goodman, Joshua. "Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts." Education Finance and Policy 5.1 (Winter 2010): 36-53.
Allison, Graham. "Don't Know Much About History." Atlantic. September 2016.
Chandra, Amitabh. "The Past and Future of the Affordable Care Act." Journal of the American Medical Association 316.5 (August 2016): 497-499.
Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Moving Beyond Bratton." New York Times. August 8, 2016.
Jencks, Christopher. "Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer." Review of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. The New York Review of Books, 63.10, June 9, 2016: 15-17.
Kelman, Steven, Ronald Sanders, and Gayatri Pandit. "鈥淭ell It Like It Is鈥: Decision Making, Groupthink, and Decisiveness among U.S. Federal Subcabinet Executives." Governance 29.3 (July 2016).
Wilson, William Julius. "Black Youths, Joblessness, and the Other Side of 鈥楤lack Lives Matter鈥." Ethnic & Racial Studies 39.8 (June 2016): 1450-1457.
Rogers, Todd. "Unacquainted Callers Can Predict Which Citizens Will Vote Over and Above Citizens' Stated Self-Predictions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113.23 (June 7, 2011): 6449-6453.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Secular Stagnation and Monetary Policy." Review 98.2 (2nd Quarter 2016): 93-110.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Limits of American Power." Political Science Quarterly 131.2 (June 2016): 267-283.
Ganz, Marshall. "How the New Civil Rights Movement Can Build on the Lessons of the Old." Moyers & Company. July 20, 2016.
Bonica, Adam, Adam Chilton, Jacob Goldin, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen. "Measuring Judicial Ideology Using Law Clerk Hiring." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-031, July 2016.
Burns, Nicholas. "North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Russia, and European Security." Senate Armed Services Committee, July 7, 2016.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Restoring Trust in the Responsive City." University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs 1.1 (July 2016).
Haefele, Michelle, John Loomis, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Total Economic Valuation of the National Park Service Lands and Programs: Results of a Survey of the American Public." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-024, June 2016.
Ganz, Marshal, and Hahrie Han. "What Hillary Clinton Can Learn From Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump." The Nation. June 22, 2016.
Burns, Nicholas. "Our Next President Must Maintain America鈥檚 Strong Partnership with India." Washington Post, June 3, 2016.
Shoag, Daniel, and Nicholas Carollo. "The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-022, June 2016.
Burns, Nicholas, James L. Jones. "Restoring the Power and Purpose of the NATO Alliance." Atlantic Council, June 2016.
Burns, Nicholas. "Trump Fails the Hiroshima Test." USA Today, May 24, 2016.
Kelman, Steven, Ronald Sanders, and Gayatri Pandit. "鈥淚 Won't Back Down?鈥 Complexity and Courage in Government Executive Decision Making." Public Administration Review 76.3 (May/June 2016): 465-471.
Rogers, Todd, John Ternovski, and Erez Yoeli. "Potential Follow-up Increases Private Contributions to Public Goods." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113.19 (May 10, 2016): 5218-5220.
Dogan, Pinar, Marc Bourreau, and Matthieu Manant. "Size of RJVs and Degree of Cooperation in Product Development." International Journal of Industrial Organization 46 (May 2016): 77-106.
Ferguson, Ronald. "Aiming Higher Together: Strategizing Better Educational Outcomes for Boys and Young Men of Color." Urban Institute Research Report, May 2016.
Kelman, Steven, and Sounman Hong. "鈥淗ard,鈥 鈥淪oft,鈥 or 鈥淭ough Love鈥 Management: What Promotes Successful Performance in a Cross-Organizational Collaboration?" International Public Management Journal 19.2 (2016): 141-170.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Reckoning With Inequality." Korea Herald, March 27, 2016.
Burns, Nicholas. "Barack Obama has Risked US Credibility in the Middle East." Financial Times, March 22, 2016.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Timothy Cheston, Miguel 脕ngel Santos, and Carlo Pietrobelli. "Towards a Prosperous and Productive Chiapas: Institutions, Policies, and Public-Private Dialog to Promote Inclusive Growth." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-047, March 2016.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Who is Right on U.S. Financial Reform? Sanders, Clinton, or the Republicans?" Straits Times, February 24, 2016.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Diplomatic Case for America to Create a Safe Zone in Syria." Washington Post, February 5, 2016.
Ganz, Marshall. "Doves, Serpents and the Iowa Primary." Huffington Post, February 2, 2016.
Burns, Nicholas. "Talk to Tehran, but Talk Tough." New York Times, January 19, 2016.
Viscusi, W. Kip, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Recollection Bias and Its Underpinnings: Lessons from Terrorism-Risk Assessments." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-003, January 2016.
de Jong, Jorrit. Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector. Brookings Institution Press, 2016.