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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

Review Essay: The Prince

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.

Review Essay: Why Tunisia?

Masoud, Tarek. "Review Essay: Why Tunisia?" Review of Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, by Safwan M. Masri. Journal of Democracy, 29.4, October 2018: 166-175.

Luck, Chance, and Taxes

Jencks, Christopher. "Luck, Chance, and Taxes." Review of Success and Luck, by Robert Frank. The American Interest, 13.1, June 23, 2017.

Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer

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.

Cashless Society

Wilson, William Julius. "Cashless Society." Review of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. New York Times, September 2, 2015: 14-14.

They Can Take It If They Want It

Glaeser, Edward L. "They Can Take It If They Want It." Review of The Grasping Hand, by Ilya Somin. Wall Street Journal, July 2015.

Did We Lose the War on Poverty?—II

Jencks, Christopher. "Did We Lose the War on Poverty?—II." Review of Legacies of the War on Poverty, ed. Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger. New York Review of Books, 62.7, April 23, 2015: 37-39.

The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?

Jencks, Christopher. "The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?" Review of Legacies of the War on Poverty, ed. Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger. New York Review of Books, 62.6, April 2015: 82-85.

The Travails of Urban Field Research

Wilson, William Julius. "The Travails of Urban Field Research." Review of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman, and This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, by Zandria F. Robinson. Contemporary Sociology, 43.6, November 2014: 824-828.

Why Hasn’t ‘Big Data’ Saved Democracy?

Ganz, Marshall. "Why Hasn’t ‘Big Data’ Saved Democracy?" Review of The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), by Micah Sifry. The Nation, October 17, 2014.

On America's Front Lines

Jencks, Christopher. "On America's Front Lines." Review of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman. The New York Review of Books, 61.15, October 9, 2014: 34-36.

Review of Women and Executive Office: Pathways and Performance

Bowles, Hannah Riley. Review of Women and Executive Office: Pathways and Performance, ed. Melody Rose. Sage, 59.4, March 2014: NP39–NP41.

Review of Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective

Jasanoff, Sheila. Review of Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, ed. Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee. Isis, 104.3, September 2013: 595-596.

Blurring the Color Line

Wilson, William Julius. "Blurring the Color Line." Review of Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America, by Richard Alba. Sociological Forum, 26.2, June 2011: 452-457.

Varieties of Wahhabism

Masoud, Tarek. "Varieties of Wahhabism." Review of Contesting the Saudi State, by Madawi al-Rasheed. Middle East Law and Governance, 2.1, 2010: 106-112.

Rising Up With Shoe Leather?

Chandra, Amitabh, and Tom S. Vogl. "Rising Up With Shoe Leather?" Comment on Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review), Social Science & Medicine, 71.7, October 2010: 1227-1230.

Fairness and Dynamic Pricing

Hogan, William W. "Fairness and Dynamic Pricing." Comment on The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing, by Ahmad Faruqui. Electricity Journal, 23.6, July 2010: 28-35.

Review of Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics & the Media on the Campaign Trail

Patterson, Thomas E. Review of Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics & the Media on the Campaign Trail, by Regina G. Lawrence and Melody Rose. Political Communication, 27.2, April-June 2010: 221-223.

Comment on States, Nations and Regional War

Toft, Monica Duffy. "Commentary on Benjamin Miller’s States, Nations and Regional War." Review of States, Nations and Regional War, by Benjamin Miller. Ethnopolitics, 2009.

Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor

Western, Bruce. "Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor." Review of Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor, by Sandra Susan Smith. Contemporary Sociology, 38.1, January 2009: 71-72.

A True Development Round?

Lawrence, Robert Z. "A True Development Round?" Review of Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton. Journal of Economic Literature, 45.4 December 2007: 1001-1010.