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
Glaeser, Edward L. "Four Challenges for Scotland's Cities." New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects. Ed. Diane Coyle, Wendy Alexander, and Brian Ashcroft. Princeton University Press, 2005, 73-95.
Cutler, David, Edward L. Glaeser, and Jacob L. Vigdor. "Ghettos and the Transmission of Ethnic Capital." Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and UK. Ed. Glenn C. Loury, Tariq Modood, and Steven M. Teles. Cambridge University Press, 2005, 204-221.
King, David C., and Miles Pomper. "Congress, Constituencies, and US Foreign Policy in the Caspian." The Limits of Culture: Islam, Foreign Policy and the Caspian. Ed. Brenda Shaffer. MIT Press, 2005.
Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa. Brookings Institution Press and the World Peace Foundation, 2005.
Hunt, Swanee. "Inclusive Transformation: A Different Power." Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership. Ed. Linda Coughlin, Ellen Wingard, and Keith Hollihan. Jossey-Bass, 2005, 411-438.
Hunt, Swanee. “Moving Beyond Silence: Women Waging Peace.” Listening to the Silences: Women and War. Ed. Helen Durham and Tracey Gurd. Martinus Nijhoff, 2005.
Rotberg, Robert I. "Sudan and the War in Darfur." Great Decisions. Ed. Foreign Policy Association. Dartmouth Printing Company, 2005, 57-67.
Heifetz, Ronald A. "Foreword." Shared Voyage: Learning and Unlearning from Remarkable Projects. Ed. Alexander Laufer, Todd Post, and Edward J. Hoffmann. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), History Division, 2005.
Kamarck, Elaine. "Government in the Information Age: An International Perspective on Government Efficiency in 21st Century Democracies." Changing Times: Leading Perspectives on the Civil Service in the 21st Century. Ed. Bill Emmott. Office of the Civil Service Commissioners, London, 2005.
Keyssar, Alexander. "The Electoral College Flunks." Review of Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America, by George C. Edwards III. The New York Review of Books, 52.5 March 24, 2005.
Stern, Donald K., Raymond Downs, Robert P. Gittens, Janice W. Howe, Steve Ijames, Patrick J. King, and Christopher E. Stone. "Report of the Commission Investigating the Death of Victoria Snelgrove." Boston Police Department Independent Commission, May 25, 2005.
Norris, Pippa, and Christopher Wlezien. Britain Votes 2005. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Woolcock, Michael. "Learning from Failures in Microfinance: What Unsuccessful Cases Tell Us About How Group-Based Programs Work." Microfinance: An Introduction. Ed. Vijaya Agarwal and VRP Kashyap. ICFAI University Press, 2005, 62-90.
Lawrence, Robert Z. Comment on "Designing Policies to Capture Beneficial Effects" in Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?, Ed. Theodore H. Moran, Edward M. Graham, Magnus Blomström 2005: 367-371.
Poiré, Alejando. "Por una Democracia de Mayor Calidad: La Reforma de la Política en México" (For a democracy of a better quality: political reform in Mexico). Crónicas de un País Posible. Ed. José Antonio Aguilar Rivera. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005.
Saich, Anthony. "Is SARS China's Chernobyl or Much Ado About Nothing?" SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic. Ed. Arthur Kleinman and James L. Watson. Stanford University Press, 2005, 71-104.
Chen, Martha, Joann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz, with Renana Jhabvala and Christine Bonner. Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty. United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), 2005.
Carter, Ashton B. "The Essential Features of a Focused Strategy to Deal with the Proliferation Challenge: What Has Been Done and What Is to Be Done?" The Challenge of Proliferation: A Report of the Aspen Strategy Group. Ed. Kurt M. Campbell. Washington, D.C.: The Aspen Institute, 2005, 141-152.
Schuck, Peter H., and Richard Zeckhauser. Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples. Brookings Institution, 2006.
Grindle, Merilee S. "Decentralization and the Promise of Good Governance" (in Spanish). Políticas Públicas (Mexico) 1.1 (2006).
Velasco, Andrés, ed. Economica Fall. Brookings Institution, September 2005.
Bane, Mary Jo, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins, eds. Taking Faith Seriously. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Hall, Peter Dobkin. "The Rise of the Civic Engagement Tradition." Taking Faith Seriously. Ed. Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins. Harvard University Press, 2005, 21-59.
Brown, L. David, and Rajesh Tandon. "Ideology and Political Economy in Inquiry." Fundamentals of Action Research. Ed. Bill Cooke and Julie Wolfram Cox. SAGE Publications, 2005.
Abadie, Alberto. "Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators." Review of Economic Studies 72.1 (2005): 1-19.
Behn, Robert. "On the Ludicrous Search for: The Magical Performance System." Bob Behn's Public Management Report January 2005.
Risse, Mathias. "Fairness in Trade." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-004, January 2005.
Keating, Elizabeth, Mary Fischer, Teresa Gordon, and Janet Greenlee. "Assessing Financial Vulnerability in the Nonprofit Sector." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-002, January 2005.
Jacob, Brian A., Lars Lefgren, and Enrico Moretti. "The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-003, January 2005 (also NBER Working Paper 10739, 2003).
Lubowski, Ruben, Andrew Plantinga, and Robert N. Stavins. "Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon Sequestration Supply Function." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-001, January 2005.
Borjas, George. "Globalization and Immigration." Globalization: What's New? Ed. Michael Weinstein. Columbia University Press, 2005, 77-95.
Borjas, George. "The Impact of High-Skill Immigration." Working Paper, January 2005.
Borjas, George, and Lawrence F. Katz. "The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the U.S. Labor Market." Working Paper, January 2005.
Bowles, Hannah Riley, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Claiming Authority: Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders." The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research. Ed. David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005, 191-208.
Allison, Graham. "Worst-Case Scenarios." Review of Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard A. Posner. Washington Post, January 9, 2005.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Globalization and the Environment." Globalization: What's New? Ed. Michael M. Weinstein. Columbia University Press, 2005, 129-169.
Grindle, Merilee S. "Good Enough Governance: From Concept to Practice." Department for International Development of the United Kingdom, 2005.
Parker, Richard. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Kellerman, Barbara. "How Bad Leadership Happens." Leader to Leader Winter 2005.
Bailey, Martin Neil and Robert Z. Lawrence. "Don't Blame Trade for U.S. Job Losses." McKinsey Quarterly January 2005.
Lawrence, Robert Z., and Rajesh Chadha. "Should a U.S.-India Free Trade Agreement Be Part of India’s Trade Strategy?" The India Policy Forum 2004 (Vol. I). Ed. Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth, and Arvind Panagariya. Brookings Institution, 2005, 69-134.
Thompson, Dennis. Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Taylor, Jonathan B., and Joseph P. Kalt. "American Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic Change Between the 1990 and 200 Censuses." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, January 2005.
Ruggie, John Gerard, Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane, and Philippe C. Schmitter. "Transformations in World Politics: The Intellectual Contributions of Ernst B. Haas." Annual Review of Political Science 8 (2005).
Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis F. Thompson, eds. Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments, 4th Edition. Thomson/Wadsworth Publishing, 2005.
Wilson, Julie Boatright. "Long-Term Care: Does Religious Affiliation Matter?" Taking Faith Seriously. Ed. Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins. Harvard University Press, 2005, 210-244.
Harding, David, Christopher Jencks, Leonard Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer. "The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults." Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success. Ed. Samuel Bowles, et al. Princeton University Press, 2005, 100-144.
Auerswald, Philip E., and Lewis M. Branscomb. "Reflections on Mansfield and the 'Golden Age' of U.S. Corporate R & D." Journal of Technology Transfer 30.1 (2005): 139-157.
Eichengreen, Barry, and Ricardo Hausmann, eds. Other People's Money: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Kelman, Steven. Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government. Brookings Institution, 2005.