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
Linos, Elizabeth, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Vince Dorie, and Jesse Rothstein. "Interventions to Bolster Benefits Take-Up: Assessing Intensity, Framing, and Targeting of Government Outreach." RWP25-001, March 2025.
Linos, Elizabeth, Sanaz Mobasseri, and Nina Roussille. "Intersectional Peer Effects at Work: The Effect of White Coworkers on Black Women's Careers." RWP23-031, July 2024.
Dickens, Eleanor, Noah Greifer, Katharine Robb, Ashley Marcoux, Jessica Creighton, Charles Allegar, and Jorrit de Jong. "The effects of a place-based intervention on resident reporting of crime and service needs: A frontier matching approach." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-033, December 2023.
Alsan, Marcella, Romaine A. Campbell, Lukas Leister, and Ayotomiwa Ojo. "Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-029, October 2023.
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, and Elizabeth Linos. "Improving delivery of the social safety net: The role of stigma." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-022, November 2022.
Risse, Mathias. "A Radical Reckoning with Cultural Devastation and Its Aftermath: Reflections on Wub-e-ke-niew’s We Have the Right to Exist." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-025, August 2023.
Norris, Pippa. "Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-020, July 2023.
Bonica, Adam, Adam Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-020, January 2023.
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-003, January 2023.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cierra Robson. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-014, September 2022.
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-038, November 2020 (Updated July 2022).
Wilkinson, Robert, and Kimberlyn Leary. "Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-029, April 2022.
Feigenbaum, James, Maxwell Palmer, and Benjamin Schneer. ""Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists:" How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-028, March 2022.
Jorgensen, Isabella, and Sandra Susan Smith. "The Current State of Bail Reform in the United States: Results of a Landscape Analysis of Bail Reforms Across All 50 States." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-033, December 2021.
Ang, Desmond, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt. "Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-022, September 2021.
Ang, Desmond, and Jonathan Tebes. "Civic Responses to Police Violence." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-033, October 2020.
Ang, Desmond. "The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-016, June 2020.
Dobbie, Will, Hans Gronqvist, Susan Niknami, Marten Palme, and Mikael Priks. "The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-031, 2019.
Dobbie, Will, Andres Liberman, Daniel Paravisini, and Vikram Pathania. "Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-029, 2019.
Baum, Matthew A., Bryce J. Dietrich, Rebecca Goldstein, and Maya Sen. "Estimating the Effect of Asking About Citizenship on the US Census: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-015, April 2019.
Norris, Pippa. "Silver or Lead? Why Violence and Corruption Limit Women’s Representation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-011, 2019.
Paryavi, Maliheh, Iris Bohnet, and Alexandra van Geen. "Descriptive Norms and Gender Diversity: Reactance from Men." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-007, 2019.
Alesina, Alberto, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, and Paolo Pinotti. "Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-040, November 2018.
Carlana, Michela, Eliana La Ferrara, and Paolo Pinotti. "Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-036, August 2018.
Carlana, Michela and Marco Tabellini. "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-035, July 2018.
Carlana, Michela. "Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-034, July 2018.
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
Ang, Desmond. "Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-033, October 2018.
Mealy, Penny, J. Doyne Farmer, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Determining the Differences that Matter: Development and Divergence in US States over 1850-2010." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-030, September 2018.
Hanna, Rema, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-024, August 2018.
Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Selcuk Ozyurt, and Niharika Singh. "Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-019, July 2018.
Juma, Calestous. "Exponential Innovation and Human Rights: Implications for Science and Technology Diplomacy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-011, February 2018.
Fletcher, Erin K., Rohini Pande, and Charity Troyer Moore. "Women and Work in India: Descriptive Evidence and a Review of Potential Policies." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-004, December 2017.
Juma, Calestous, and Francis Mangeni. "African Regional Economic Integration: The Emergence, Evolution, and Impact of Institutional Innovation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-003, January 2018.
Bonica, Adam, and Maya Sen. "The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-048, December 2017.
Borjas, George. "Still More on Mariel: The Role of Race." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-029, June 2017.
Bonica, Adam, Adam Chilton, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen. "The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-023, April 2017.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Ljubica Nedelkoska. "Welcome Home in a Crisis: Effects of Return Migration on the Non-Migrants’ Wages and Employment." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-015, January 2017.
Borjas, George. "The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-013, March 2017.
James K. Sebenius, Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin, L. Alexander Green. "Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-059, December 9, 2016.
Bonica, Adam, Adam Chilton, Jacob Goldin, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen. "Measuring Judicial Ideology Using Law Clerk Hiring." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-031, July 2016.
Shoag, Daniel, and Nicholas Carollo. "The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-022, June 2016.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Jesse Schreger. "Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-021, May 2016.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Jordan C. Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-001, January 2016.
Naik, Nikhil, Scott Duke Kominers, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, and César A. Hidalgo. "Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co- Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-061, October 2015.
Borjas, George. "The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: A Reappraisal." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-057, September 2015.
Avery, Christopher, and Parag A. Pathak. "The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-053, September 2015.
Bonica, Adam, Adam S. Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-049, August 2015.
Sen, Maya, and William Spaniel. "How Uncertainty about Judicial Nominees Can Distort the Confirmation Process." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-050, August 2015.
Clark, William C. "London: A Multi-Century Struggle for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-047, August 2015.
Ruggie, John Gerard, and Tamaryn Nelson. "Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-045, August 2015.