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
Rodrik, Dani. "An Industrial Policy for Good Jobs." The Hamilton Project, September 2022.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, Daniel Jones, and Christopher Warshaw. "How Partisanship in Cities Influences Housing Policy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-035, August 2022.
Glaeser, Edward L. "What can developing cities today learn from the urban past?" Regional Science and Urban Economics 94 (May 2022): 103698.
Jay, Jonathan, Jorrit de Jong, Marcia P Jimenez, Quynh Nguyen, and Jason Goldstick. "Effects of demolishing abandoned buildings on firearm violence: a moderation analysis using aerial imagery and deep learning." Injury Prevention 28 (May 2022): 249-255.
Eaves, David, Leonie Bolte, Omayra Chuquihuara, and Surabhi Hodigere. "Best Practices for the Governance of Digital Public Goods." Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, April 2022.
Taylor, Charles A., and Hannah Druckenmiller. "Wetlands, Flooding, and the Clean Water Act." American Economic Review 112.4 (April 2022): 1334-1363.
Bilmes, Linda J., and Cornell William Brooks. "The GI Bill was one of the worst racial injustices of the 20th century. Congress can fix it." Boston Globe. February 23, 2022.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Kate Markin Coleman. Collaborative Cities: Mapping Solutions to Wicked Problems. Esri Press, 2022.
Cook, Cody, Lindsey Currier, and Edward L. Glaeser. "Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2022.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Urban resilience." Urban Studies 59.1 (January 2022): 3-35.
Glaeser, Edward L., Caitlin Gorback, and Stephen J. Redding. "JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities." Journal of Urban Economics 127 (January 2022): 103292.
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel, Edward L. Glaeser, and Stuart S. Rosenthal. "The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction." Journal of Urban Economics 127 (January 2022): 103428.
Andrews, Matthew. "Can Africa Compete in World Soccer?" CID Faculty Working Papers Series, January 2022.
Eaves, David and Sechi Kailasa. "The 2021 Digital Services Convening." Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, January 2022.
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Zhi Liu, eds. Infrastructure economics and policy: international perspectives. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021.
Glaeser, Edward L., Karima Kourtit, and Peter Nijkamp. "New urban challenges: Shared spaces in smart places – Overview and positioning." Land Use Policy 111 (December 2021): 105672.
Taylor, Charles A., and James Rising. "Tipping point dynamics in global land use." Environmental Research Letters 16.12 (December 2021): 125012.
Robb, Katharine, Ashley Marcoux, and Jorrit de Jong. "Further Inspection: Integrating Housing Code Enforcement and Social Services to Improve Community Health." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18.22 (November 2021): 12014.
Mansbridge, Jane. Democracia: Amistad y pugna. GEDISA, 2021.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Betsy Gardner. "No, We Don't Need Dumb Cities." Data-Smart City Solutions. September 27, 2021.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Kathryn Carlson. "What the Next Mayor Needs to Do About Boston's Transportation Crisis." Boston Area Research Initiative White Paper Series, September 2021.
Goldsmith, Stephen, Betsy Gardner, and Jill Jamieson. "Toward a Better Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure - Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-023, September 2021.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "On Living History And Stories Unfinished." Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom. Ed. Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T. K. Hunter, and Timothy Patrick McCarthy. Columbia University Press, 2021.
Ang, Desmond, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt. "Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-022, September 2021.
Sevtsuk, Andres, Annie Hudson, Dylan Halpern, Rounaq Basu, Kloe Ng, and Jorrit de Jong. "The impact of COVID-19 on trips to urban amenities: Examining travel behavior changes in Somerville, MA." PLOS ONE 16.9 (September 2021): e0252794.
Goldsmith, Stephen, Betsy Gardner, and Jill Jamieson. "Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works." Ash Center Policy Briefs Series, September 2021.
Goldsmith, Stephen, Betsy Gardner, and Jill Jamieson. "Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure." August 2021.
Anderson, Weston, Charles A. Taylor, Sonali McDermid, Elisabeth Ilboudo-Nébié, Richard Seager, Wolfram Schlenker, Fabien Cottier, Alex de Sherbinin, Dara Mendeloff, and Kelsey Markey. "Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa." Nature Food 2.8 (August 2021): 603-615.
Sheng, Hao, Keniel Yao, and Sharad Goel. "Surveilling Surveillance: Estimating the Prevalence of Surveillance Cameras with Street View Data." Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, 221-230.
Glaeser, Edward L., and James Poterba. "Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment." Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy. Ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz. Aspen Institute Press, 2021.
Ashraf, Nava, Edward Glaeser, Abraham Holland, and Bryce Millett Steinberg. "Water, Health and Wealth: The Impact of Piped Water Outages on Disease Prevalence and Financial Transactions in Zambia." Economica 88.351 (July 2021): 755-781.
Bernhard, Rachel, and Justin de Benedictis Kessner. "Men and Women Candidates Are Similarly Persistent After Losing Elections." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.26 (June 29, 2021).
Abdur-Rashid, Khalil. "Financing Kindness as a Society: The Rise and Fall of the Waqf as a Central Islamic Philanthropic Institution (Awqaf)." Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society 5.1 (Summer 2021): 49-69.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "Strategic Partisans: Electoral Motivations and Partisanship in Local Government Communication." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2.2 (June 2021): 227-248.
Putnam, Robert D. "Bowling Alone: Thinking About Social Change in America." The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector. Ed. J. Steven Ott and Lisa A. Dicke. Routledge, May 2021.
Liebman, Jeffrey, Kathryn Carlson, Eliza Novick, and Pamela Portocarrero. "Chelsea Eats Study: Card Spending Update." May 2021.
Tomkins, Sabina, Keniel Yao, Johann Gaebler, Tobias Konitzer, David Rothschild, Marc Meredith, and Sharad Goel. "Blocks as geographic discontinuities: The effect of polling place assignment on voting." May 2021.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "Strategic Government Communication About Performance." Political Science Research and Methods (March 2021).
Alsan, Marcella, and Sarah Eichmeyer. "Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2021.
de Jong, Jorrit, Amy Edmondson, Mark Moore, Hannah Riley Bowles, Jan Rivkin, Eva Flavia Martinez-Orbegozo, and Santiago Pulido-Gomez. "Building Cities’ Collaborative Muscle." Stanford Social Innovation Review (Spring 2021).
Fraga, Bernard L., and Daniel J. Moskowitz, and Benjamin Schneer. "Partisan Alignment Increases Voter Turnout: Evidence from Redistricting." Political Behavior (February 2021).
Ellington, Tom, Michael S. Bruckner, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Economic Value and Costs of Capital Cities: The Trenton Case Study." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-002, February 2021.
Ang, Desmond. "The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students." Quarterly Journal of Economics 136.1 (February 2021): 115-168.
Masoud, Tarek. "The Arab Spring at 10: Kings or People?" Journal of Democracy 32.1 (January 2021): 139-154.
Bhatia, Amiya, Elizabeth Donger, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "‘Without an Aadhaar card nothing could be done’: a mixed methods study of biometric identification and birth registration for children in Varanasi, India." Information Technology for Development 27.1 (January 2021): 129-149.
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.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Douglas Barrios, Daniela Muhaj, Sehar Noor, Carolina Pan, Miguel Angel Santos, Jorge Tapia, and Bruno Zuccolo. "Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-036, November 2020.
Dugan, Laura, and Erica Chenoweth. "Threat, Emboldenment, or Both? The Effects of Political Power on Violent Hate Crimes." Criminology 58.4 (November 2020): 714–746.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, and Maxwell Palmer. "Driving Turnout: The Effect of Car Ownership on Electoral Participation." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-032, October 2020.
Woolcock, Michael and Samuel Freije-Rodriquez. "Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2020: Reversals of Fortune." World Bank, October 2020.