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
Galeazzi, Clara, Grace Lam, and John P. Holdren. "Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: CO2 Transport costs and network infrastructure considerations for a net-zero United States." Environment and Natural Resources Program & Science Technology and Public Policy Program Paper Series, July 2023.
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Madison Coots, Sharad Goel & Julian Nyarko. "Designing equitable algorithms." nature computational science 3.7 (July 2023): 601-610.
Allison, Graham. "Will India Surpass China to Become the Next Superpower?" Foreign Policy, June 24, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "China鈥檚 dominance of solar poses difficult choices for the west." Financial Times, June 22, 2023.
Lawrence, Christopher, Sheila Jasanoff, Sam Weiss Evans, Keith Raffel, and L. Mahadevan. "Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula." Science and Engineering Ethics 29.4 (August 2023).
Chandra, Amitabh, Courtney Coile, and Corina Mommaerts. "What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer's Disease?" Journal of Economic Literature 61.2 (June 2023): 428-470.
Borrmann, Vera, Christopher Coenen, Alfred Nordmann, Roberto Cantoni, Sascha Dickel, Christopher Groves, Armin Grunwald, Ben Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, George Khushf, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Arie Rip, Martin Sand, and Christina Sch眉es. "Future Conversations 鈥 A Topical Exchange." Hermeneutics, History, and Technology: The Call of the Future. Ed. Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann, and Martin Sand. Routledge, 2023.
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Alfred Nordmann. "Technology in the Imagination of Society 鈥 A Conversation." Hermeneutics, History, and Technology: The Call of the Future. Ed. Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann, and Martin Sand. Routledge, 2023.
Automated Court Date Reminders Reduce Warrants for Arrest: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Madison Coots, Joe Nudell, Julian Nyarko, Emma Brunskill, Todd Rogers, and Sharad Goel. "Automated Court Date Reminders Reduce Warrants for Arrest: Evidence from a Text Messaging Experiment." .
Fagan, Mark. "AI for the People: The Use of AI to Improve Government Performance." M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series, April 2023.
Risse, Mathias. Political Theory of the Digital Age: Where Artificial Intelligence Might Take Us. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Chrisinger, David, And Lauren Brodsky. Because Data Can't Speak for Itself: A Practical Guide to Telling Persuasive Policy Stories. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
Smith, Sheila D., Joseph P. Newhouse, and Gigi A. Cuckler. "Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the Curve Continue?" 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-001, January 2023.
Boloori, Alireza, Soroush Saghafian, and Stephen J. Traub. "Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Human-Based Versus Algorithmic-Based Perceptions, Treatments, and Guidelines." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-026, December 2022.
Orfanoudaki, Agni, Soroush Saghafian, Karen Song, Harini A. Chakkera, and Curtiss B. Cook. "Algorithm, Human, or the Centaur: How to Enhance Clinical Care?" 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-027, December 2022.
Chandra, Amitabh, Jennifer Kao, Kathleen L. Miller and Ariel D. Stern. "Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-024, December 2022.
Jay, Jonathan, Felicia Heykoop, Linda Hwang, Jorrit de Jong, and Michelle Kondo. "Use of smartphone mobility data to analyze city park visits during the COVID-19 pandemic." Landscape and Urban Planning 228 (December 2022): 104554.
Alsan, Marcella, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi L. Williams. "Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-019, October 2022.
Green, Jon, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew Simsonson, Jennifer Lin, Mauricio Santillana, and Roy H. Perlis. "Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue." British Journal of Political Science 1-9 (2022).
Scherer, F.M. "Chapter 13: Economists' analyses of technological change." Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation. Ed. Cristiano Antonelli. Elgar, 2022, 115-119.
Eve Rittenberg, Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Kathryn M. Rexrode. "Primary Care Physician Gender and Electronic Health Record Workload." Journal of General Internal Medicine 37 (October 2022): 3295-3301.
Risse, Mathias. "Introduction to the Symposium on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence." Moral Philosophy and Politics 9.2 (October 2022): 173鈥179.
Glaeser, Edward L., and David Cutler. Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation. Penguin, 2022.
Cai, William, Johann Gaebler, Justin Kaashoek, Lisa Pinals, Samuel Madden, and Sharad Goel. "Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement with large-scale telematics data." PNAS Nexus 1.4 (September 2022).
Nair, Gautam and Kyle Peyton. "Building Mass Support for Global Pandemic Recovery Efforts in the United States." PNAS Nexus 1.4 (September 2022): 1-9.
Aldy, Joseph. "Learning How to Build Back Better through Clean Energy Policy Evaluation." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-010, August 2022.
Baum, Matthew A., Bryce J. Dietrich, and Rebecca Goldstein, and Maya Sen. "Sensitive Questions, Spillover Effects, and Asking about Citizenship on the US Census." The Journal of Politics 84.3 (July 2022): 1869-1873.
Cai, William, Ro Encarnacion, Bobbie Chern, Sam Corbett-Davies, Miranda Bogen, Stevie Bergman, and Sharad Goel. "Adaptive Sampling Strategies to Construct Equitable Training Datasets." FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (June 2022): 1467-1478.
Ristea, Alina, Riley Tucker, Shunan You, Mehrnaz Amiri, Nicholas Beauchamp, Edgar Castro, Qiliang Chen, Alexandra Ciomek, Bidisha Das, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Sage Gibbons, Forrest Hangen, Barrett Montgomery, Petros Papadopoulos, Cordula Robinson, Saina Sheini, Michael Shields, Xin Shu, Michael Wood, Babak Heydari, and Dan O鈥橞rien. "A multisource database tracking the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the communities of Boston, MA, USA." Scientific Data 9.1 (June 20, 2022): 330.
Linos, Elizabeth. "When Governments Use Nudges: Measuring Impact 鈥淎t Scale鈥." Behavioral Science in the Wild. Ed. Nina Ma啪ar and Dilip Soman. University of Toronto Press, 2022, 20-28.
Bridges, Kate, and Michael Woolcock. "Measuring What Matters: Principles for a Balanced Data Suite That Prioritizes Problem-Solving and Learning." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, May 2022.
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Stephen Hilgartner. "A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19." Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ed. Joelle Grogan, and Alice Donald. Routledge, 2022.
Rodrik, Dani. "Prospects for global economic convergence under new technologies." An Inclusive Future? Technology, New Dynamics, And Policy Challenges. Ed. Zia Qureshi. Brookings Institute, May 2022, 65-82.
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
Carter, Ashton B. "The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines." Daedalus 151.2 (Spring 2022): 299-308.
Dzansi, James, Anders Jensen, David Lagakos and Henry Telli. "Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-005, April 2022.
Holdren, John, Nina Fedoroff, Neal Lane, Nick Talbot, and Toby Spribille. "Let鈥檚 not abandon Russian scientists." Science, 376.6590, March 2022, 256-257.
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics. Ed. Katharine G. Abraham , Ron S. Jarmin , Brian C. Moyer and Matthew D. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 249-274.
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Marissa Gerchick, Sharad Goel, Aziz Z. Huq, Amy Shoemaker, Ravi Shroff, and Keniel Yao. "Identifying and Measuring Excessive and Discriminatory Policing." University of Chicago Law Review 89.2 (March 2022): 441-475.
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Madison Coots, Henry Zhu, Emma Brunskill, and Sharad Goel. "Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making." February 2022.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The End of Cyber-Anarchy?: How to Build a New Digital Order Digital Disorder." Foreign Affairs 101.1 (January/February 2022): 32-43.
Gordon, Sue, and Eric Rosenbach. "America's Cyber-Reckoning: How to Fix a Failing Strategy." Foreign Affairs 101.1 (January/February 2022): 10-21.
DellaVigna, Stefano and Elizabeth Linos. "RCTs to scale: Comprehensive evidence from two nudge units." Econometrica 90.1 (January 2022): 81-116.
Cook, Cody, Lindsey Currier, and Edward L. Glaeser. "Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2022.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Spaceship or Stewardship: Imaginaries of Sustainability in the Information Age." Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 47.4 (2022): 29-47.
Eaves, David and Sechi Kailasa. "The 2021 Digital Services Convening." Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, January 2022.
Moch, Jonathan M., William Xue, and John P. Holdren. "Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: Technologies and costs in the U.S. context." Environment and Natural Resources Program Brief Series, January 2022.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Knowledge for a just climate." Climatic Change 169 (December 2021): 36.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Abhishek Bhatia, and Sam Peisch. "Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures." Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
Lin, Zhiyuan Jerry, Hao Sheng, Sharad Goel. "Probability Paths and the Structure of Predictions over Time." Advances in Neural Information Processing System 34 (2021): 15098-15110.
Glaeser, Edward L., Karima Kourtit, and Peter Nijkamp. "New urban challenges: Shared spaces in smart places 鈥 Overview and positioning." Land Use Policy 111 (December 2021): 105672.