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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

Institutional Change and Adaptive Efficiency: A Study of China's Hukou System Evolution

Saich, Anthony, and Kunling Zhang. Institutional Change and Adaptive Efficiency: A Study of China's Hukou System Evolution. World Scientific, 2023.

Collaborative Cities: Mapping Solutions to Wicked Problems

Goldsmith, Stephen, and Kate Markin Coleman. Collaborative Cities: Mapping Solutions to Wicked Problems. Esri Press, 2022.

Democracia: Amistad y pugna

Mansbridge, Jane. Democracia: Amistad y pugna. GEDISA, 2021.

Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States

Danielle F. Jung and Dara Kay Cohen. Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and how We Can Do it Again

Putnam, Robert D. The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and how We Can Do it Again. Simon & Schuster, 2020.

The New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance

Goldsmith, Stephen, and Neil Kleinman. The New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance. Brookings Institution Press, 2017.

Triumph of the City

Glaeser, Edward L. Triumph of the City. Penguin Press, 2011.

Rethinking Federal Housing Policy

Glaeser, Edward L. Rethinking Federal Housing Policy. American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008.

Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium

Glaeser, Edward L. Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The Education Gap: Vouchers And Urban Schools

Howell, William G., and Paul E. Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell. The Education Gap: Vouchers And Urban Schools, Revised Edition. Brookings Institution, 2006.

There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

Wilson, William Julius, and Richard P. Taub. There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. Knopf, 2006.

Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context

Elliott, Delbert S., Scott Menard, Bruce Rankin, Amanda Elliott, David Huizinga, and William Julius Wilson. Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts and Discretion

Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts and Discretion. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment

Altshuler, Alan, and David Luberoff. Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment. Brookings Institution, 2003.