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
Levy, Dan, Harounan Kazianga, Leigh Linden, and Matt Sloan. "Impact Evaluation of Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Program, Final Report." Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., May 2009.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Past as Prologue in Life Extension." Society 46.3 (May 2009): 232-234.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Blessings of a Divided Government." Boston Globe, May 1, 2009.
Greig, Fiona, and Iris Bohnet. "Exploring Gendered Behavior in the Field with Experiments: Why Public Goods are Provided by Women in a Nairobi Slum." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 70.1-2 (May 2009): 1-9.
Jorgenson, Dale, Richard Goettle, Mun Sing Ho, and Peter Wilcoxen. "Cap and Trade Climate Policy and U.S. Economic Adjustments." Journal of Policy Modeling 31.3 (May 2009): 362-381.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Arendt's Children: Do Today's Migrant Children Have a Right to Have Rights?" Human Rights Quarterly 31.2 (May 2009): 410-451.
Gallagher, Kelly Sims. "Acting in Time on Climate Change." Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Gallagher, Kelly Sims. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 12-38.
Holdren, John P. "Science in the White House." Science 324.5927 (May 2009): 567.
Ellwood, David. Foreword. Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Kelly Sims Gallagher. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, vii-xii.
Hogan, William W. "Electricity Market Structure and Infrastructure." Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Kelly Sims Gallagher. Brookings Institution Press, May 2009, 128-161.
Anadon, Laura Diaz, and John P. Holdren. "Policy for Energy Technology Innovation." Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Kelly Sims Gallagher. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 89-127.
Lee, Henry. "Oil Security and the Transportation Sector." Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Kelly Sims Gallagher. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 56-88.
Gallagher, Kelly Sims. "Acting in Time on Energy Policy." Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Kelly Sims Gallagher. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 1-11.
Behn, Robert. "Recognizing Novelty." Bob Behn's Public Management Report. May 2009.
Finkelstein, Amy, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo. "Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function." American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 99.2 (May 2009): 116-121.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia. American Journal of Sociology, 114.6, May 2009: 1903-1905.
Steinfeld, Edward S., Richard K. Lester, and Edward A. Cunningham. "Greener Plants, Grayer Skies." Energy Policy 37.5 (May 2009): 1809–1824.
Kelman, Steven. "Rethinking Fixed-Price Contracting." Federal Computer Week. April 29, 2009.
Olmstead, Sheila M., and Robert N. Stavins. "Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation." Water Resources Research 45 (2009): W04301.
Hausmann, Ricardo. "Here We Go Again." Americas Quarterly, April 24, 2009.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "Business and Human Rights: Towards Operationalizing the 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework." United Nations Human Rights Council, Eleventh Session, New York, April 22, 2009.
Thompson, Dennis F. "Obama’s Ethics Agenda Seems to Be Lost." Roll Call. April 21, 2009.
Banerjee, Abhijit V., Selvan Kumar, Rohini Pande, and Felix Su. "Making the Right Choice." Hindustan Times, April 21, 2009.
Peterson, Paul E. Voucher Impacts: Differences between Public and Private Schools. Handbook of Research on School Choice. Ed. Mark Berends, Matthew G. Springer, Dale Ballou, and Herbert J. Walberg. Routledge, 2009, 249-267.
Timbie, Justin, David M. Shahian, Joseph P. Newhouse, Meredith B. Rosenthal, and Sharon-Lise T. Normand. "Composite Measures for Hospital Quality Using Quality-adjusted Life Years." Statistics in Medicine 28.8 (April 15, 2009): 1238-1254.
Bilmes, Linda. "Help Wanted in Public Service." Boston Globe, April 15, 2009.
Kelman, Steven, and Steve Schooner. "Achieving Effective Reform." Federal Times.com, April 13, 2009.
Rodrik, Dani. "An IMF We Can Love?" Business Standard, April 13, 2009.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Scholars on the Sidelines." Washington Post, April 13, 2009.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Which Globalization Will Survive?" Korea Times, April 13, 2009.
Avery, Christopher, and Richard Zeckhauser. "The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP09-011, April 2009.
Goldsmith, Stephen. Foreword. The Innovator's Playbook. Ed. William Eggers and Shalabh Singh. The Ash Institute and Deloitte Research, 2009.
Arrow, Kenneth J., Alan Auerbach, John Bertko, Shannon Brownlee, Lawrence Casalino, Jim Cooper, Francis J. Crosson, Alain Enthoven, Elizabeth Falcone, Robert C. Feldman, Victor R. Fuchs, Alan M. Garber, Marthe R. Gold, Dana Goldman, Gillian K. Hadfield, Mark A. Hall, Ralph I. Horwitz, Michael Hooven, Peter D. Jacobson, Timothy S. Jost, Lawrence J. Kotlikoff, Jonathan Levin, Sharon Levine, Richard Levy, Karen Linscott, Har. "Toward a 21st Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform." Annals of Internal Medicine 150.7 (April 7, 2009): 493-495.
Mansbridge, Jane. "Deliberative and Non-Deliberative Negotiations." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-010, April 7, 2009.
Walt, Stephen. "Dumb and Dumber: America's Three Worst Foreign Policies." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 5, 2009.
Wilson, William Julius. "Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces that Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality." Race and Social Problems 1.1 (April 2009): 3-11.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Abandoning the Pillars of Sound Policy." Boston Globe, April 4, 2009.
Kelman, Steven, and Jeff Myers. "Successfully Executing Ambitious Strategies in Government: An Empirical Analysis." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Papers RWP09-009, April 2009.
Burns, Nicholas. "Working With Our Friends in Europe." Boston Globe, April 3, 2009.
Stewart, Rory. "Regenerating Afghanistan: Saving Part of Historic Kabul by Establishing a Craft School." Telegraph (UK). April 2, 2009.
Kelman, Steven. "Learning from Facebook." Federal Computer Week. April 2, 2009.
Blake, Michael, and Mathias Risse. "Immigration and Original Ownership of the Earth." Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 23.1 (Spring 2009): 133-167.
Allison, Graham. Memo to the President: Making Preventing Nuclear Terrorism a Central Organizing Principle of Your Administration. The Instruments and Institutions of American Purpose. Ed. Kurt Campbell and Jonathon Price. Aspen Strategy Group, April 1, 2009, 201-207.
Chingos, Matthew M., and Paul Peterson. "For-Profit and Nonprofit Management in Philadelphia Schools." Education Next 9.2 (Spring 2009): 64-70.
Avery, Christopher, and Jonathan D. Levin. "Early Admissions at Selective Colleges." NBER Working Papers 14844, April 2009.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades." NBER Working Papers 14876, April 2009.
Ganz, Marshall. Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Choi, James J, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment. Developments in the Economics of Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report Series, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 57-82.
Leigh, Andrew, Christopher Jencks, and Timothy M. Smeeding. Health and Economic Inequality. Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. Ed. Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Tim Smeeding. Oxford University Press, 2009, 384-406.
Kamarck, Elaine. "Reinventing Reform." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Spring 2009.