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
Woods, Tyler, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Estimating the Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Worker Outcomes in the US Service Sector, 2017-2023." SSM-Population Health 31 (September 2025): 101830.
Jacoby, Ryan J., Dalton L. Klare, Caroline H. Armstrong, Susanne S. Hoeppner, Jennifer Lerner, and Sabine Wilhelm. "Risk-aversion with both high and low ambiguity: Elevated OCD symptom severity and intolerance of uncertainty are associated with less risk-taking in an OCD patient sub-sample." Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 46 (July 2025): 100955.
Abrams, Leah, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "New Technology, Older Workers: How Workplace Technology is Associated with Indicators of Job Retention." Journal of Aging & Social Policy (June 2025).
Lynn, Jonathan, Rachel Y. Kim, Sicun Gao, Daniel Schneider, Sachin S. Pandya, and Min Kyung Lee. "Regulating Algorithmic Management: A Multi-Stakeholder Study of Challenges in Aligning Software and the Law for Workplace Scheduling." FAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (23 June 2025): 547-572.
De Jong, Jorrit, Fernando Fernandez-Monge, Quinton Mayne, and Nick Vachon. "The Data-Informed City: A Conceptual Framework for Advancing Research and Practice." Information Polity (June 22, 2025).
Bloome, Deirdre. "Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms." Sociological Methods & Research (2025).
Waardenburg, Maurits, Martijn Groenleer, and Jorrit de Jong. "Performance Management in Collaborative Governance: A Review of the Literature and Synthesis of the Challenges." Public Performance & Management Review (16 June 2025): 1-33.
Hodgson, Nicole R., Soroush, Saghafian, Wayne A. Martini, Arshya Feizi, and Agni Orfanourdaki. "Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Emergency Department Vertical Patient Flow Optimization." Journal of Personalized Medicine 15.6 (June 2025): 219.
Moses, Jacob D., J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, and Krishanu Saha. "Introducing Perspectives from the Global Observatory for Genome Editing." The CRISPR Journal (23 May 2025).
Jasanoff, Sheila, et al. "A Reset for Bioethics: A Statement from the Global Observatory for Genome Editing." The CRISPR Journal (22 May 2025).
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson. "How the China trade shock impacted U.S. manufacturing workers and labor markets, and the consequences for U.S. politics." Washington Center for Equitable Growth (May 2025): 1-20.
Aigner, Ernest, Jacob Greenspan, and Dani Rodrik. "The global distribution of authorship in economics journals." World Development 189 (May 2025): 106926.
Sweeney, Latanya. "A Systematic Review of the 109,119 Voter Registration Drops in Ohio During the Federal Law’s 90-Day Quiet Period." Technology Science (April 22, 2025): 2025041703.
Sweeney, Latanya, and Josh Visnaw. "Measuring Mistakes: A Data-Driven Assessment of Voter List Maintenance and Erroneous Deletions in Ohio’s 2024 Election." Technology Science (April 22, 2025).
Sweeney, Latanya, and Josh Visnaw. "Efficacy of Text Messaging in Activating Hard-to-Reach Voters in Rhode Island and Ohio." Technology Science (April 22, 2025).
Sankaranarayanan, Madhav, Maria Donahue, Shuo Sun, Julianne Brooks, Lee Schwamm, Joseph Newhouse, John Hsu, Deborah Blacker, and Lidia Maria Moura. "Benzodiazepine Initiation Effect on Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Post Acute Ischemic Stroke (P7-14.009)." Neurology 104.7 Supplement 1 (April 8, 2025).
Habib, Mamoon, Rafaella Cazé de Medeiros, Syed Muhammad Ahsan, Aidan McDonald Wojciechowski, Joseph Newhouse, M. Brandon Westover, Lee Schwamm, and Lidia Maria Moura. "A Claims-based Machine Learning Model to Classify Modified Rankin Scale at Stroke Discharge (P6-14.012)." Neurology 104.7 Supplement 1 (April 8, 2025).
Whetsell, Travis A., Mark Prebble, Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Kirstine Zinck Pedersen, Christopher Ansell, Hahrie Han, Patricia M. Shields, Jean Hartley, John Benington, and Mark H. Moore. "Roundtable: Perspectives on The Public." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (7 Apri l2025).
Donahue, Maria A., Julianne D. Brooks, John Hsu, Mary Price, Deborah Blacker, Lee H. Schwamm, Joseph P. Newhouse, M. Brandon Westover, Sebastien Haneuse, and Lidia M.V.R. Moura. "Differences in patterns of outpatient epilepsy-specific medication initiation after acute ischemic stroke in the Medicare population." Epilepsia (2025 Apr 4).
Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina, Maria Kuecken, Eliana La Ferrara, and Elsa Artadi. "Understanding Child Sex Trafficking by Use of Victim-Level Data." Economic Development and Cultural Change 73.3 (April 2025): 1501-1526.
Bosché, Michelle, Rachel Krust, Archon Fung, and Aditya S. Pawar. "Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement." American Journal of Public Health 115.4 (April 2025): 500-505.
Aguirre, Emilie, Julie Yen, and Julie Battilana. "An Organizational Theory of Corporate Law." The Journal of Corporation Law 50.3 (March 31, 2025): 567-616.
Bazerman, Max. "An Insider’s Perspective on How to Reduce Fraud in the Social Sciences." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (March 27, 2025).
Palmiano Federer, Julia, Monica Giannone, Brian Mandell, and Elan Kogutt. "Why It Worked: Moving from Success to Effectiveness in Conflict Resolution and Peace Negotiations." Negotiation Journal (2025).
Paternina-Caicedo, Angel, Oscar Espinosa, Sangini S. Sheth, Nathaniel Hupert, and Soroush Saghafian. "Excess Mortality Rate in Black Children Since 1950 in the United States: A 70-Year Population-Based Study of Racial Inequalities." Annals of Internal Medicine (25 March 2025).
Battilana, Julie, Christine M. Beckman. and Julie Yen. "On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory." Administrative Science Quarterly (2025).
Lipschitz, Jessica M., Sidian Lin, Soroush Saghafian, Chelsea K. Pike, and Katherine E. Burdick. "Digital phenotyping in bipolar disorder: Using longitudinal Fitbit data and personalized machine learning to predict mood symptomatology." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 151.3 (March 2025): 434-447.
Gaebler, Johann D., Sharad Goel, Aziz Huq, and Prasanna Tambe. "Auditing large language models for race & gender disparities: Implications for artificial intelligence-based hiring." Behavioral Science & Policy (2025).
Robb, Katharine, Pablo Uribe, Eleanor Dickens, Ashley Marcoux, Jessica Creighton, and Jorrit de Jong. "The Impact of City-Led Neighborhood Action on the Coproduction of Neighborhood Quality and Safety in Buffalo, NY." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22.3 (March 2025): 341.
Liu, Naijia, Xinlan Emily Hu, Yasemin Savas, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, Allison J.B. Chaney, Christopher Lucas, Rei Mariman, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Andrew M. Guess, Dean Knox, and Brandon M. Stewart. "Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube." PNAS 122.8 (February 25, 2025): e2318127122.
Glaeser, Edward L. "ADB Distinguished Speaker Lecture: The Complementarity Between Cities and State Capacity." Asian Development Review (February 11, 2025).
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem. "How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?" British Journal of Political Science 55.e4 (10 February 2025): 1-19.
Jessee, Stephen, Neil Malhotra, and Maya Sen. "Asking about Complex Policies." Public Opinion Quarterly (7 February 2025).
Spence, Jennifer, John Holdren, and Fran Ulmer. "Arctic research cooperation in a turbulent world." Science 387.6734 (7 February 2025): 598-600.
Highsmith, Brian, Maya Sen, and Kathleen Thelen. "Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes." Perspectives on Politics (6 February 2025).
Chenoweth, Erica. "Thinking (about peace science) in time." Conflict Management and Peace Science (February 2, 2025).
Jameson, Jacob C., Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman, and Nicole Hodgson. "Variation in batch ordering of imaging tests in the emergency department and the impact on care delivery." Health Services Research 60.1 (February 2025): e14406.
Sabbath, Erica, Meg Lovejoy, Daniel Schneider, Yaminette Diaz-Linhart, Grace DeHorn, and Susan Peters. "Engaging Low-Wage Workers in Health and Wellbeing Survey Research: Strategies from Five Occupational Studies." American Journal of Public Health 115.2 (February 2025): 201-208.
Alsan, Marcella, Romaine A. Campbell, Lukas Leister, and Ayotomiwa Ojo. "Investigator racial diversity and clinical trial participation." Journal of Health Economics (January 31, 2025).
Arslan, Cansin, Edward H. Chang, Siri Chilazi, Iris Bohnet, and Oliver P. Hauser. "Behaviorally Designed Training Leads to More Diverse Hiring." Science 387.6732 (24 Jan 2025): 364-366.
Perlis, Roy H., Ata Uslu, Jonathan Schulman, Faith M. Gunning, Mauricio Santillana, Matthew A. Baum, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. "Irritability and Social Media Use in US Adults." JAMA Network Open 8.1 (January 2025): e2452807.
Pulido-Gómez, Santiago, Jorrit de Jong, and Jan W Rivkin. "Cross-Sector Collaboration In Cities: Learning Journey Or Blame Game?" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (01/08/2025).
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson. "Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native- and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock." ILR Review 78.1 (January 2025): 10-36.
Coots, Madison, Soroush Saghafian, David M. Kent, and Sharad Goel. "A Framework for Considering the Value of Race and Ethnicity in Estimating Disease Risk." Annals of Internal Medicine 178.1 (January 2025): 98-107.
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem, Jonathan Renshon, Jessica L. P. Weeks, and Chagai M. Weiss. "The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States." American Political Science Review (12/23/2024): 1-16.
Saghafian, Soroush, and Lihi Idan. "Effective Generative AI: The Human-Algorithm Centaur." Harvard Data Science Review Special Issue 5 (December 19, 2024).
Búzás, Zoltán I., and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "Race, shaming, and international human rights." American Journal of Political Science (9 December 2024).
Angeleri, Stefano, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "Promises (Un)fulfilled: Navigating the Gap Between Law, Policy, and Practice to Secure Migrants’ Health Rights." Health and Human Rights 26.2 (December 2024): 83-36.
Tarantino, Giuseppe, Cora A. Ricker, Annette Wang ... Soroush Saghafian et al. "Genomic heterogeneity and ploidy identify patients with intrinsic resistance to PD-1 blockade in metastatic melanoma." Science Advances 10.48 (29 November 2024): eadp4670.
Coots, Madison, Kristin Linn, Sharad Goel, Amol Navathe, and Ravi Parikh. "Racial Bias in Clinical and Population Health Algorithms: A Critical Review of Current Debates." Annual Review of Public Health (forthcoming).