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
Fisher, Elliott S., David C. Goodman, and Amitabh Chandra. "Disparities in Health and Health Care among Medicare Beneficiaries: A Brief Report of the Dartmouth Atlas Project." Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 2008.
Norris, Pippa. "Reasoning Voters, Rational Publics." Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Political Science Association, Vancouver, June 4-6, 2008.
Rodrik, Dani. "Second-Best Institutions." NBER Working Papers and CEPR Discussion Papers (14050 and 6764), June 2008.
Deming, David, and Susan Dynarski. "The Lengthening of Childhood." Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, New England Public Policy Center and NBER Working Papers (08-3 and 14124), June 2008.
Carter, Ashton B. "Military Elements in a Strategy to Deal with Iran's Nuclear Program." Center for a New American Security Iran Strategy Working Paper 3, June 2008.
Kelman, Steven. "Procurement Issues in South Africa that Affect Growth and Development." Center for International Development Working Paper 171, June 2008.
Jorgenson, Dale W., Richard J. Goettle, Peter J. Wilcoxen and Mun Sing Ho. "The Economic Costs of a Market-based Climate Policy." White Paper, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, June 2008.
Norris, Pippa. "The News Media and the Governance Agenda." Paper for workshop sponsored by the CommGap Program at the World Bank and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, May 28-31, 2008.
Risse, Mathias. "Human Rights as Membership Rights in the Global Order." Paper for conference on "Human Rights and the New Global Order," Harvard University, Cambridge, May 8, 2008.
Norris, Pippa. "Democratic Deficits in International Perspective." Paper for Weatherhead Center US-Canada conference, "Democratic Deficit?", May 8-9, 2008.
Hogan, William W. "Texas Nodal Market Design: Observation and Comments." Paper for ERCOT Energized Conference, Austin, May 2, 2008.
Hogan, William W. "Electricity Market Design: Coordination, Pricing, and Incentives." Paper for ERCOT Energized Conference, Austin, May 2, 2008.
Peterson, Paul E., and Matthew M. Chingos. "Impact of For-Profit and Non-Profit Management on Student Achievement: The Philadelphia Experiment." Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance PEPG08-11, May 2008.
Williams, Kim M. "Immigrant Political Incorporation." Paper for Models of Immigrant Incorporation Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, May 2008.
Andrews, Matthew. "Is Black Economic Empowerment a South African Growth Catalyst? (Or Could it Be...)." Center for International Development Working Papers 170, May 2008.
Edwards, Lawrence, and Robert Z. Lawrence. "SACU Tariff Policies: Where Should They Go From Here?" Center for International Development Working Paper 169, May 2008.
Ortiz, Alberto, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Estimating SARB's Policy Reaction Rule." Center for International Development Working Papers 165, May 2008.
du Plessis, Stan, Ben Smit, and Federico Sturzenegger. "The Cyclicality of Monetary and Fiscal Policy in South Africa since 1994." Center for International Development Working Papers 163, May 2008.
Peters, Pauline E., Peter A. Walker, and Damon Kambewa. "Striving for Normality in a Time of AIDS in Malawi." Center for International Development Working Papers 167, May 2008.
du Plessis, Stan, Ben Smit, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Identifying Aggregate Supply and Demand Shocks in South Africa." Center for International Development Working Papers 164, May 2008.
Ganz, Marshall and Ruth Wageman. "Leadership Development Project: Pilot Project Report and Recommendations." Sierra Club Leadership Development Project, May 2008.
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University. "America's Rental Housing: The Key to a Balanced National Policy." Report prepared for the MacArthur Foundation, April 2008.
Bowles, Hannah Riley. "Getting Past No: Gender and the Propensity to Persist in Negotiation." Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, San Diego, April 24-26, 2008.
Rotberg, Robert I. "Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Failed States." Paper for Conference on State Failure, Cornell University Institute for African Development, Ithaca, April 18, 2008.
Culpepper, Pepper D. "Why Managers Usually Win in the Politics of Corporate Control: Japan and the Netherlands Compared." Paper for Seminar Series of the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University, Cambridge, April 8, 2008.
Norris, Pippa. "Silencing Dissent: The Impact of Restrictive Media Environments on Regime Support." Paper for Midwest Political Science Association 66th Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 3-6, 2008.
Brown, L. David, and John Gaventa. "Constructing Transnational Action Research Networks: Observations and Reflections from the Case of the Citizenship DRC." IDS Working Paper 302, April 2008.
Ridgeway, Greg, Glenn L. Pierce, Anthony A. Braga, George Tita, Garen Wintemute, and Wendell Roberts. "Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles." RAND Corporation, 2008.
Behn, Robert. "PerformanceStat as a Leadership Strategy: It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Follow-Up." Paper for Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management, Brisbane, March 2008.
Gallagher, Kelly Sims. "The Rise of China: Energy and Environmental Implications." Presentation at the National Academies 2008 Energy Summit, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2008.
Holdren, John P. "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy To Meet America's Energy Challenges." Presentation at the National Academies 2008 Energy Summit, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2008.
Culpepper, Pepper D. "Legal Change, Institutional Stability, and Italian Corporate Governance." Paper for the Berkeley Workshop on Comparative Corporate Governance, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, March 14-15, 2008.
Culpepper, Pepper D. "The Netherlands and the Myth of the Corporatist Coalition." Paper for the Sixteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 6-8, 2008.
Rodrik, Dani. "Normalizing Industrial Policy." Commission on Growth and Development Working Papers 3, March 2008.
Borjas, George J., Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon H. Hanson. "Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal." NBER Working Paper Series 13887, March 2008.
Kugler, Adriana, and Maurice Kugler. "Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia." NBER Working Paper Series w13855, March 2008.
Auerswald, Philip, Lewis M. Branscomb, Susan Shirk, Michael Kleeman, Todd M. La Porte, and Ryan N. Ellis. "Critical Infrastructure and Control Systems Security Curriculum Version 1.0." Report prepared for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division, Control Systems Security Progr, March 2008.
Bilmes, Linda. "The Three Trillion Dollar War." Presentation to the Council on Foreign Relations, March 2008.
Carter, Ashton B., and Robert G. Joseph, co-chairs. "Report of the Review Panel on Future Directions for Defense Threat Reduction Agency Missions and Capabilities to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction." Defense Threat Reduction Agency, March 2008.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Rural to Urban Migration in China and the Implications for Housing and Welfare Investments." Paper for China Development Forum, Beijing, March 23-24, 2008.
Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and Tristan Zajonc. "Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics." Center for International Development Working Paper Series 158, March 2008.
Rosengard, Jay K., and Do Ngoc Huynh. "Vietnam Land and Buildings Tax." Vietnam Ministry of Finance Policy Advisory Group, March 2008.
Rotberg, Robert I. "The Meaning of 'Success' in Africa." Paper for Conference on Economic Research on African Development Successes, NBER, Cambridge, February 21, 2008.
Holdren, John P. "Global Climatic Disruption: Risks and Opportunities." Presentation at Investor Summit on Climate Risk, New York, February 14, 2008.
Behn, Robert. "The Seven Big Errors of PerformanceStat." Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, policy brief, February 2008.
Norris, Pippa. "Do Power-Sharing Institutions Work?" Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Lecture Series: Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places, University of Pennsylvania, January 22, 2008.
Holdren, John P. "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge." The John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008.
Hogan, William W. "Electricity Market Hybrids: Mixed Market Design, Regulation and Investment." Conference Paper for La Asociacion Espanola para la Economia Energetica (AEEE), Bilbao, January 17, 2008.
Norris, Pippa. "Gender and Religion." Paper for SSRC workshop on Religion and International Affairs, New York, January 15-16, 2008.
Ferguson, Ronald. "Within-School Variation in the Quality of Instruction Across Course Levels and Racial Groups." Paper for Annual Conference of the American Economics Association, New Orleans, January 4, 2008.