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
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. "Historical Persistence." The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Ed. Jeffrey A. Jenkins, and Jared Rubin. Oxford University Press, 2022, C7.P1–C7.N13.
Hanson, Gordon H. "Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-005, January 2023.
Alsan, Marcella, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang. "The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-004, January 2023.
Borjas, George, and Hugh Cassidy. "The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics. Ed. Polachek, Solomon W., and Konstantinos Tatsiramos. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Can China Pull Off Its Charm Offensive?" Foreign Policy, January 23, 2023.
Democratic mayors have no effect on crime, but do reduce the Black share of arrests for petty crimes
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, Matthew Harvey, Daniel Jones, and Christopher Warshaw. "Democratic mayors have no effect on crime, but do reduce the Black share of arrests for petty crimes." January 23, 2023.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Biden Should let the Game of Debt Ceiling Chicken Play Out." Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2023.
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-003, January 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Congrats, You’re a Member of Congress. Now Listen Up." Foreign Policy, January 11, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Will Russia Go Nuclear? 7 Key Questions to Consider." Time Magazine, January 5, 2023.
Allison, Graham. "Nuclear Weapons Still Matter." Foreign Policy, January 5, 2023.
Dunford, Joseph F. Jr., Graham Allison, and Jonah Glick-Unterman. "Guardians of the Republic: Only a Nonpartisan Military Can Protect American Democracy." Foreign Affairs (January 5, 2023).
Walt, Stephen M. "Looking Ahead to 2023 by Looking Back." Foreign Policy, January 4, 2023.
Smith, Sheila D., Joseph P. Newhouse, and Gigi A. Cuckler. "Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the Curve Continue?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-001, January 2023.
Shepard, Mark and Myles Wagner. "Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-002, January 2023.
Cohen, Dara Kay, Danielle F. Jung, and Michael Weintraub. "Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective." Comparative Politics 55.2 (January 2023): 239-261.
Adler, Paul S., Amr Adly, Daniel Erian Armanios, Julie Battilana, Zlatko Bodrožic, Stewart Clegg, Gerald F. Davis et al. "Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion." Journal of Management Inquiry 32.1 (January 2023): 1-18.
Woolcock, Michael. "Assessing and Interpreting Complex Development Interventions: Three Key Principles and Two (Intractable?) Conundrums." Changing Dimensions of the International Development System: New Realities and Working Differently to Overcome Delivery Challenges. Ed. Horst Fischer, Maria Gonzales de Asis, and Anselm Schneider. Lit Verlag, 2023, 181-195.
Logevall, Fredrik. "The Ghosts of Kennan: Lessons from the Start of a Cold War." Review of Kennan: A Life Between Worlds, by Frank Costigliola.102.1, January/February 2023: 170-179.
Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, Alex McDowell, Andrew A. Nierenberg, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Benjamin Lê Cook. "Coverage Parity And Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Mental Health And Substance Use Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries." Health Affairs 42.1 (January 2023): 83-89.
Cushman, Joy, and Elizabeth McKenna. "Power Metrics: Measuring What Matters to Build a Multiracial Democracy." Democracy & Power Innovation Fund, 2023.
Peterson, Paul E. "A Pessimistic View of Public-School Reform." Review of Confessions of a School Reformer, by Larry Cuban. Education Next, 23.1, Winter 2023.
Baqir, Reza, Ischac Diwan, and Dani Rodrik. "A framework to evaluate economic adjustment-cum-debt restructuring packages." Finance for Development Lab Working Paper Series, January 2023.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. "Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents." Journal of Peace Research 60.1 (January 2023): 3-8.
Chandra, Amitabh, Maurice Dalton, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?" NBER Working Paper Series, October 2023.
Chenoweth, Erica, Zoe Marks, Matthew Cebul, and Miranda Rivers. "Youth and LGBTQ+ Participation In Nonviolent Action." USAID, January 2023.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Three Key Issues for Post-pandemic Monetary Policy." Cato Policy Report, November/December 2022.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Predictions that global economy is heading for a recession are premature." The Guardian, December 29, 2022.
Rodrik, Dani. "Technology, Globalisation and A Need for A New Model of Development (Mahboob ul Haq Lecture: Key Takeaways)." The Pakistan Development Review 61.1 (December 2022): 118-120.
Singh, J.P., and Michael Woolcock. "The Future of Multilateralism and Global Development: Opportunities for Constitutive and Functional Reform." Global Perspectives 3.1 (December 2022): 57594.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., Yao Hou, and Danxia Xie. "Estimation of Nonlinear Exchange Rate Dynamics in Evolving Regimes." December 2022.
Fisher, Elliott S., David C. Goodman, and Amitabh Chandra. "Regional and Racial Variation in Health Care among Medicare Beneficiaries: A Brief Report of the Dartmouth Atlas Project." The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon (NH), December 2022.
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Seizure Prophylaxis Among Adults After Acute Ischemic Stroke
Moura, Lidia M.V.R., Maria A. Donohue, Zhiyu Yan, Louisa H. Smith, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, Lee H. Schwamm, Sebastian Haneuse, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, and Deborah Blacker. "Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Seizure Prophylaxis Among Adults After Acute Ischemic Stroke." Stroke 54.2 (February 2023): 527-536.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin and Michael Hankinson. "How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy." Political Behavior (2022).
Abbiasov, Timur, Cate Heine, Edward L. Glaeser, Carlo Ratti, Sadegh Sabouri, Arianna Salazar Miranda, and Paolo Santi. "The 15-Minute City Quantified Using Mobility Data." NBER Working Paper Series, December 2022.
Hanson, Gordon H., and Matthew J. Slaughter. "America Needs More Immigration to Defeat Inflation." Foreign Affairs (December 19, 2022).
Kalt, Joseph P. "American Indian Self-Determination Through Self-Governance: The Only Policy That Has Ever Worked." Testimony before the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, December 15, 2022.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "How to save the WTO with more flexible trading rules." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs, December 2022.
Boloori, Alireza, Soroush Saghafian, and Stephen J. Traub. "Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Human-Based Versus Algorithmic-Based Perceptions, Treatments, and Guidelines." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø 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?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-027, December 2022.
Saghafian, Soroush. "Ambiguous Dynamic Treatment Regimes: A Reinforcement Learning Approach." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-034, December 2022.
Borjas, George, and David J. G. Slusky. "Health, Employment, and Disability: Implications from the Undocumented Population." American Journal of Health Economics 8.1 (Winter 2022): 1-29.
Chandra, Amitabh, Jennifer Kao, Kathleen L. Miller and Ariel D. Stern. "Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-024, December 2022.
Kreider, Amanda R., Timothy J. Layton, Mark Shepard and Jacob Wallace. "Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices: Evidence from Medicaid." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-025, December 2022.
Carlana, Michela, and Lucia Corno. "Shaping gender-stereotypical beliefs: the role of parents and peers." IFS Working Paper Series, December 2022.
Aiyar, Yamini, Rolf Alter, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics." Public Sector Economics Journal (December 2022): 456-458.
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.
Gilman, Hollie Russon, Archon Fung, and Mark Schmitt. "Designing for Community Engagement: Toward More Equitable Civic Participation in the Federal Regulatory Process." Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; New America, December 2021.
Glaeser, Edward L., Caitlin S. Gorback, and James M. Poterba. "How Regressive are Mobility-Related User Fees and Gasoline Taxes?" NBER Working Paper Series, December 2022.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Ian Goldin. "Urban Rebirth: Economic Considerations for Reconstruction in Kharkiv and Ukraine." December 2022.