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
Keyssar, Alexander. “Democracy as a Project: The Strange Career of Political Participation in the U.S.” Latin American Regional Forum, Monterrey, Mexico, August 2007.
Bowles, Hannah Riley. "Claiming Authority: How Women Account for their Attainment of Leadership Positions." Academy of Management Meeting, August 2007.
Ganz, Marshall. "Strategy in Social Movements." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2007.
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation Under Automatic Enrollment." NBER Working Papers w13352, August 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Promoting Democracy." Women and Politics Caucus, American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, August 2007.
Juma, Calestous, and Ismail Serageldin. "Freedom to Innovate: Biotechnology in Africa's Development: Report of the High-Level African Panel on Modern Biotechnology." African Union and New Partnership for Africa's Development (nepadst.org), August 2007.
Gallagher, Kelly Sims, Gustavo Collantes, John P. Holdren, Henry Lee, and Robert Frosch. "Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector." ETIP Discussion Paper (BCSIA), Summer 2007.
Bunn, Matthew, and Anatoli Diakov. "Global Fissile Materials Report 2007: Disposition of Excess Highly Enriched Uranium." International Panel on Fissile Materials, 2007.
Olmstead, Sheila M., and Robert N. Stavins. "Managing Water Demand Price vs. Non-Price Conservation Program." Pioneer Institute White Paper No. 39, July 2007.
Patterson, Thomas E. "Young People and News." Carnegie/Knight Task Force Report on the Future of Journalism Education, Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government, July 2007.
Chen, Martha. "Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment." United Nations - Department of Economic & Social Affairs Working Paper No. 46, July 2007.
Avery, Christopher, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth. "The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks." NBER Working Paper Series No. 13213, July 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Political Action in Vulnerable States." Conference paper for 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government, Vienna, June 2007.
Aldonas, Grant D., Robert Z. Lawrence, and Matthew J. Slaughter. "Succeeding in the Global Economy: A New Policy Agenda for the American Worker." Financial Services Forum, June 26, 2007.
Peterson, Stephen. "Imperfect Systems (IFMISs) in Africa." Paper prepared for the World Bank and CABRI Conference on Budget Management and Public Financial Accountability, June 2007.
Bunn, Matthew, and Anatoli Diakov. "Global Fissile Materials Report 2007: Disposition of Excess Plutonium." International Panel on Fissile Materials, 2007.
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "The World Bank and Democratic Accountability." Presentation at Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden, June 2007.
Rosengard, Jay K., with Bui Van, Huynh The Du, Vu Pham Tin, Fang Xu, and Mochamad Pasha. "Paying for Urban Infrastructure and Services: A Comparative Study of Municipal Finance in Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, and Jakarta." UNDP Viet Nam and the Institute for Economic Research HCMC, June 2007.
Stavins, Robert N., Judson Jaffe, and Todd Schatzki. "Designing an Effective U.S. Climate Policy: Key Issues, Implications, and Tradeoffs." Working Paper, June 2007.
Campante, Filipe R., Davin Chor, and Quoc-Anh Do. "Instability and the Incentives for Corruption." SSRN Working Paper, June 2007.
Pittinsky, Todd L. "Allophilia, Intergroup Leadership, and the European Image." Presentation at the 3rd plenary conference of the European Archipelago of Humanistic Thematic Networks, Brussels, Belgium, June 2007.
Carter, Ashton B., William J. Perry, and Michael M. May. "The Day After: Action in the 24 Hours Following a Nuclear Blast in an American City." Preventative Defense Project, May 2007.
Hogan, William W. "Acting in Time: Regulating Wholesale Electricity Markets." Comments on Competition in Wholesale Power Markets. Submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, May 8, 2007.
Galston, William, and Elaine Kamarck with Sharon Burke. "Security First: A Strategy for Defending America." Third Way National Security Project, May 2007.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Shang-Jin Wei. "Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime." CEPR Discussion Papers and NBER Working Papers (DP 6264 and w13100), May 2007.
Cutler, David M., Edward L. Glaeser, and Jacob L. Vigdor. "When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States." NBER Working Papers w13082, May 2007.
Pittinsky, Todd L., Seth A. Rosenthal, and R. Matthew Montoya. "Prejudice and Allophilia: A Two-Dimensional Model of Intergroup Attitudes and Relations." Poster session presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, May 2007.
Bator, Francis. "No Good Choices: LBJ and the Vietnam/Great Society Connection." American Academy of Arts & Sciences Occasional Paper, May 2007.
Fagan, Mark. "Introducing Competition into Natural Monopoly Industries: An Evaluation of Mandated Access to Australian Freight Railroads, Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper RPP-2007-05, MR-CBG Kennedy School o." Regulatory Policy Program working paper, May 2007.
Holdren, John P., David Baltimore, James J. McCarthy, et al. "AAAS Board Statement on the Crisis in Earth Observation from Space." American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), April 28, 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Christian Conservatism in Global Perspective: U.S. Exceptionalism (again)?" Paper for the Russell Sage Conference, New York, April 2007.
King, David C. "The 12th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service." Harvard University, Institute of Politics, April 27, 2007.
Holdren, John P., William K. Reilly, John Rowe, Jason Grumet, Marika Tatsutani, et al. "Energy Policy Recommendations to the President and the 110th Congress." National Commission on Energy Policy, April 9, 2007.
King, David C. "A Blueprint for Transforming the Boston Election Department." Report to City of Boston, April 2007.
Ebrahim, Alnoor. “Creating Accountability: What do Business, Government, and Nonprofits have in Common?” Presentation: Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 5, 2007.
Panitchpakdi, Supachai (Chair), Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Nobuyuki Idei, Caio Koch-Weser, Justin Yifu Lin, and Lawrence H. Summers. "Towards a New Asian Development Bank in a New Asia." Report of the Eminent Persons Group to the President of the Asian Development Bank, April 2, 2007.
Kamm, Frances. "Response to Critics of Intricate Ethics." American Philosophical Association Panel on Intricate Ethics, San Francisco, April 2007.
Cutler, David M., Edward L. Glaeser, and Allison B. Rosen. "Is the U.S. Population Behaving Healthier?" NBER Working Paper Series w13013, April 2007.
Kerr, William, Edward L. Glaeser, and Glenn Ellison. "What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns." Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, NBER, and HIER Working Papers (CES-WP-07-13, w13068, and 2133), April 2007.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Bruce Sacerdote. "Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs." NBER Working Papers w13031, April 2007.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Kristina Tobio. "The Rise of the Sunbelt." NBER Working Papers w13071, April 2007.
Frank, Richard G., and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Mending the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Improving Consumer Choices and Restructuring Purchasing." Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, The Brookings Institution, April 2007.
Sewall, Sarah, ed. "Learning and Integration: Escalation of Force Procedures and Traffic Control Point Operations." Project on the Means of Intervention, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and U.S. Army PKSOI, with U.S. Army CALL, March 26-27, 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Do Power-Sharing Elections Work?" Paper for International Conference on Africa's Democratization and Electoral Processes, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2007.
Rotberg, Robert I. “Reforming Political Leadership: Methods and Incentives, or Can Avarice Be Tamed?” KSG Center for Public Leadership Prospecting Group, March 6, 2007.
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A., and Fernanda Ruiz Nuñez. "Inefficient Cities." Working Paper, March 2007.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "The United States and the WTO Dispute Settlement System." Council on Foreign Relations Press, Council Special Report No. 25, March 2007.
Levy, Dan, and Jim Ohls. "Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Programme: Final Report." Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. MPR Reference No. 8966-090, March 2007.
Chandra, Amitabh, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight. "Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly." NBER Working Paper Series w12972, March 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Democracy and Development." Ministerial Conference for the Community of Democracies, Bamako, Mali, March 2007.