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Delivery worker wearing a medical mask and carrying packages.
Feature: The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Service Workers

Daniel Schneider finds that state paid sick leave laws increased service workers’ access to paid sick leave and reduced the share of service workers who worked while sick.

A family with a father, mother, and two small children walking on a dirt path.
Feature: Connecting Absolute and Relative Intergenerational Mobility

Deirdre Bloome offers two frameworks for understanding the relationship between types of intergenerational mobility, or whether people are socioeconomically better off than their parents.

Two women in rural India dressed colorfully and carrying baskets on their heads.
Feature: Studying a Government Program to Support Women’s Self-Help Groups

Michael Walton explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program, finding two major tensions.

A network of computer motherboards and other parts assembled to look like a miniature city.
Feature: The Data-Informed City

Jorrit de Jong presents a comprehensive framework for how cities can use data to address problems more effectively, efficiently, equitably, and with better accountability.

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

The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade: Why Are They Below Historical Effects of Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade: Why Are They Below Historical Effects of Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?" Europe and the Euro. Ed. Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi. University Of Chicago Press, 2010, 169-218.

On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics

Hojman, Daniel, and Felipe Kast. "On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-035, November 2009.

US, Russia Must Lead on Arms Control

Scocroft, Brent, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Nicholas Burns, and Strobe Talbott. "US, Russia Must Lead on Arms Control." Politico, October 13, 2009.

Performance Improvement and Performance Dysfunction: An Empirical Examination of Distortionary Impacts of the Emergency Room Wait-Time Target in the English National Health Service

Kelman, Steven, and John N. Friedman. "Performance Improvement and Performance Dysfunction: An Empirical Examination of Distortionary Impacts of the Emergency Room Wait-Time Target in the English National Health Service." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19.4 (October 2009): 917-947.

Critical Citizens Revisited: The U.S. and Western Europe

Norris, Pippa. "Critical Citizens Revisited: The U.S. and Western Europe." Paper presented at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung, Berlin, September 11, 2009.

Working With Our Friends in Europe

Burns, Nicholas. "Working With Our Friends in Europe." Boston Globe, April 3, 2009.

America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity

Craig, Campbell, and Fredrik Logevall. America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity. Harvard University Press, 2009.

The Impact of the Internet on Political Activism: Evidence from Europe

Norris, Pippa. "The Impact of the Internet on Political Activism: Evidence from Europe." Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology. Ed. G. David Garson and Mehdi Khosrow-Pour. IGI Publications, January 2008.

The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, and Fredrik Logevall, eds. The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Harvard University Press, 2007.