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
Atkinson, Caroline, Paul Barrett, Lynda Clarizio, Dipayan Ghosh, John Haigh, Thomas Melia, Michael Posner, Vivian Schiller, and Clint Watts. "Recommendations to the Biden Administration: On Regulating Disinformation and Other Harmful Content on Social Media." March 2021.
Ramelli, Stefano, Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-011, March 2021.
Salles, Maurício B. C., Taina N. Gadotti, Michael J. Aziz, and William W. Hogan. "Potential revenue and breakeven of energy storage systems in PJM energy markets." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28 (March 2021): 12357-12368.
Mangu, Samhita, Thillai Rajan Annamalai, and Akash Deep. "Comparison of toll and annuity PPPs: a case study of highway projects in India." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 11.1 (February 2021): 103-120.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "David vs. Goliath Narrative in GameStop Story Has Serious Flaws." The Guardian, February 2021.
Reinhart, Carmen. "The quiet financial crisis." World Bank Blogs: Let's Talk Development. January 2021.
Moore, Mark H. "Creating Public Value: The Core Idea of Strategic Management in Government." International Journal of Professional Business Review 6.1 (January 2021): 219.
Stavins, Robert N. "Book Review: James M. Gabler: Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 16 , 2021: 102-114.
Reinhart, Carmen, and Vincent Reinhart. "La depresión de la pandemia: la economía mundial nunca volverá a ser la misma." Foreign affairs: Latinoamérica 21.1 (January 2021): 106-114.
Furman, Jason. "The Crisis Opportunity: What It Will Take to Build Back a Better Economy." Foreign Affairs 100.1 (January/February 2021): 25-35.
Taylor, Charles A., Christopher Boulosb, and Douglas Almonda. "Livestock plants and COVID-19 transmission." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol.117.50 (December 15, 2020): 31706-31715.
Chilazi, Siri, and Iris Bohnet. "How to Best Use Data to Meet Your DE&I Goals." Harvard Business Review. 12/03/2020.
Dynan, Karen. "The Risk of Financial Hardship in Retirement: A Cohort Analysis." Remaking Retirement: Debt in an Aging Economy. Ed. Olivia Mitchell and Annamaria Lusardi. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Stock, James H., and Mark W. Watson. "Slack and Cyclically Sensitive Inflation." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 52.S2 (December 2020): 393-428.
Furman, Jason, and Lawrence H. Summers. "A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates." November 30, 2020.
Ruggie, John Gerard, Caroline Rees, and Rachel Davis. "Making 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Work: Contributions from Business and Human Rights." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-034, November 2020.
Stavins, Robert N. "Film Review: Jason Wise (Director), Somm 3." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 15.4, November 2020: 422-426.
Atkeson, Andrew, Michael C. Droste, Michael Mina, and James H. Stock. "Economic Benefits of COVID-19 Screening Tests." National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2020.
Lee, Henry, and Abigail Mayer. "The Future of Carbon Offset Markets." Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, October 22, 2020.
Cao, Jing, Mun Sing Ho, Wenhao Hu, and Dale Jorgenson. "Urban Household Consumption in China: Price, Income, and Demographic Effects." Review of Development Economics (October 2020).
Summers, Lawrence H. "The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus." JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 324.15 (October 2020): 1495-1496.
Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary Pisano, and Pian Shu. "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from US Patents." American Economic Review: Insights 2.3 (September 2020): 357-374.
Ang, Yu Qian, Andrew Chia, and Soroush Saghafian. "Using Machine Learning to Demystify Startups Funding, Post-Money Valuation, and Success." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-028, August 2020.
Born, Dana, Committee on the Consideration of Generational Issues in Workforce Management and Employment Practices, eds. Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management? National Academy of Science, 2020.
Glaeser, Edward L. "‘Promised Land’ Review: A Short-Lived Consensus." Review of Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968, by David Stebenne. Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2020.
Ma, Siyu, Yair Tauman, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Deterrence Games and the Disruption of Information." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-026, August 2020.
Glaeser, Edward L., Ginger Zhe Jin, Benjamin T. Leyden, and Michael Luca. "Learning From Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact of Lockdown and Reopening on Risky Behavior During COVID-19." National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2020.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "The Paradox of Corporate Globalization: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-023, August 2020.
Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-022, July 2020.
Cunningham, Edward, and Philip Jordan. "Our Path to “New Normal” in Employment? Sobering Clues from China and Recovery Scores for U.S. Industry." Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, July 2020.
Masoud, Tarek. "Review Essay: The Prince." Review of MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman, by Ben Hubbard. Journal of Democracy, 31.3, July 2020: 172-178.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Charles "Skip" Stitt. "Fiscal Strategies to Help Cities Recover—and Prosper." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-019, June 2020.
Wagner, Alexander F., Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Which Firms Won? Which Lost?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-018, June 2020.
Furman, Jason, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin. "Fiscal Policy Responses to Economic Inequality." Business Economics 55 (July 2020): 113-119.
Bartik, Alexander W., Marianne Bertrand, Zoe Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.30 (July 2020): 17656-17666.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "The Social Construction of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights." Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business. Ed. Surya Deva and David Birchall. Edward Elgar, July 2020.
Aspelund, Karl M., Michael C. Droste, James H. Stock, and Christopher D. Walker. "Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland." National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020.
Bartik, Alexander W., Zoe B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher T. Stanton. "What Jobs Are Being Done at Home During the COVID-19 Crisis? Evidence From Firm-Level Surveys." National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2020.
Baqaee, David, Emmanuel Farhi, Michael Mina, and James H. Stock. "Policies for a Second Wave." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, June 2020.
Furman, Jason. "The Unemployment Pandemic: Addressing America’s Jobs Crisis." Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, June 18, 2020.
Furman, Jason, Timothy Geithner, Glenn Hubbard, and Melissa S. Kearney. "What a Successful Economic Recovery Plan Must Look Like." Washington Post, June 16, 2020.
Horn, Sebastian, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. "Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending." June 2020.
Cunningham, Edward, and Yunxin Li. "China's Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy." 2020.
Cao, Jing, Mun S. Ho, Wenhao Hu, and Dale Jorgenson. "Effective Labor Supply and Growth Outlook in China." China Economic Review 61 (June 2020): 101398.
Cao, Jing, Mun S. Ho, Wenhao Hu, and Dale Jorgenson. "Estimating Flexible Consumption Functions for Urban and Rural Households in China." China Economic Review 61 (June 2020).
Coglianese, John, Todd D. Gerarden, and James H. Stock. "The Effects of Fuel Prices, Environmental Regulations, and Other Factors on US Coal Production, 2008-2016." The Energy Journal 41.1 (June 2020).
Kumar, Aditi, and Eric Rosenbach. "Could China's Digital Currency Unseat the Dollar?" Foreign Affairs. May 20, 2020.
Ilzetzki, Ethan, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff. "Why is the Euro Punching Below Its Weight?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-013, May 2020.
Bartik, Alexander W., Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher T. Stanton. "How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-012, May 2020.
Burstein, Ariel, Gordon Hanson, Lin Tian, and Jonathan Vogel. "Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence From the United States." Econometrica 88.3 (May 2020): 1071-1112.