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
Borjas, George, Kirk B. Doran, and Ying Shen. "Ethnic Complementarities After the Opening of China: How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors." Journal of Human Resources 53 (Winter 2018): 1-31.
Borjas, George. "Lessons from Immigration Economics." Independent Review 22.3 (Winter 2018): 329-340.
Crabtree, Charles, Christian Davenport, Erica Chenoweth, Dana M. Moss, Jennifer Earl, Emily Hencken Ritter, and Christopher Sullivan. "Contentious Politics in the Trump Era." PS: Political Science & Politics 51.1 (January 2018): 17-25.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Craig Campbell. "The Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics: Institutionalizing Analytical Excellence." Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate. Ed. André Correa d’Almeida. Columbia University Press, 2018.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "How the User Experience (UX) Can Build Trust in Local Government." Urban Policy 2018. Manhattan Institute, 2018.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Michael Hendrix. "Unclogging the Permit Pipeline." Urban Policy 2018. Manhattan Institute, 2018.
Kellerman, Barbara. "Leadership and Lactation." Women’s Leadership Journeys: Attributes, Style, and Impact. Ed. Sherylle Tan and Lisa DeFrank-Cole. Routledge, 2018.
Mainwaring, Scott, and James Loxton, eds. Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Mandell, Brian S., and Arvid Bell. "Cognitive Maelstroms, Nested Negotiation Networks, and Cascading Decision Effects: Modeling and Teaching Negotiation Complexity with Systemic Multi-Constituency Exercises." Negotiation Journal 34.1 (January 2018): 37-67.
Bell, Arvid, and Brian S. Mandell. "Cognitive Maelstroms, Nested Negotiation Networks, and Cascading Decision Effects: Modeling and Teaching Negotiation Complexity with Systemic Multi-Constituency Exercises." Negotiation Journal 34.1 (January 2018): 37-67.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Joseph Gyourko. "The Economic Implications of Housing Supply." Journal of Economic Perspectives 32.1 (Winter 2018).
Foarta, Dana, Jessica Leight, Rohini Pande, and Laura Ralston. "Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability." CEPR Discussion Papers, January 2018.
Dai, Zhen, Debra K. Weisenstein, and David W. Keith. "Tailoring Meridional and Seasonal Radiative Forcing by Sulfate Aerosol Solar Geoengineering." Geophysical Research Letters (January 2018).
Peterson, Paul E. Review of Learning from the Federal Market-Based Reforms, ed. William Mathis and Tina M. Trujillo. Journal of School Choice, 12.1, Jan-Mar 2018: 154-155.
Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik. "Big Data and Big Cities: the Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life." Economic Inquiry 56.1 (January 2018): 114-137.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Is the Chinese Economy Headed for a Hard Landing." The China Questions: Critical Insight into a Rising Power. Ed. Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Sonyi. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Saich, Anthony. "How Do China’s New Rich Give Back?" The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power. Ed. Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi. Harvard University Press, 2018, 148-154.
Rogers, Todd, Noah J. Goldstein, and Craig R. Fox. "Social Mobilization." Annual Review of Psychology 69 (January 2018): 357-381.
Shoag, Daniel. "Land Use Regulations and Fertility Rates." One Hundred Years of Zoning and the Future of Cities. Springer, 2018.
Liebman, Jeffrey. "Using Data to More Rapidly Address Difficult U.S. Social Problems." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 675.1 (January 2018): 166-181.
Chen, Martha, Jenna Harvey, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, and Caroline Skinner. "Inclusive Public Spaces for Informal Livelihoods: A Discussion Paper for Urban Planners and Policy Makers." Cities Alliance and WIEGO, 2018.
Gerardo Ramirez, Sophia Yang Hooper, Nicole B. Kersting, Ronald Ferguson, David Yeager. "Teacher Math Anxiety Relates to Adolescent Students' Math Achievement." AERA Open 4.1 (January-March 2018): 1-13.
Sen, Maya. "The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity." Journal of Legal Studies 47.1 (January 2018): 1-43.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Jyothi Kanics, and Daniel Senovilla Hernández, eds. Research Handbook on Child Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
Nazmiye Ceren Abay, Yan Zhou, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bhavani Thuraisingham, and Latanya Sweeney. "Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Release Using Deep Learning." Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2018): 510-526.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Future of Politics." Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2018.
Smith, Sandra Susan. "Getting It So Wrong, Making It Right." Poverty & Race: Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 27.1, Jan-Mar 2018, 7-8.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin. "Off-Cycle and Out of Office: Election Timing and the Incumbency Advantage." The Journal of Politics 80.1 (January 2018): 119-132.
Nye, Joseph S. "Normative Restraints on Cyber Conflict." Cyber Security 1.4 (Spring 2018): 331-342.
Allison, Graham. "Is Nuclear War Inevitable?" Review of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Ellsberg. New York Times, December 2017: 18.
Burns, Nicholas. "America is on the Brink of a Historic Break With Europe, Thanks to Trump." USA Today, December 26, 2017.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Evidence-Based Health Policy." New England Journal of Medicine 377 (December 2017): 2413-2415.
Hogan, William W. "An Efficient Western Energy Imbalance Market with Conflicting Carbon Policies." The Electricity Journal 30.10 (December 2017): 8-15.
Gerarden, Todd D., Richard G. Newell, and Robert N. Stavins. "Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap." Journal of Economic Literature 55.4 (December 2017): 1486-1525.
Waardenburg, Maurits, Martijn Groenleer, Jorrit de Jong, and Herman Bolhaar. "Evidence-Based Prevention of Organized Crime: Assessing a New Collaborative Approach." Public Administration Review (December 2017).
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Risk Adjustment with an Outside Option." Journal of Health Economics 56 (December 2017): 256-258.
Borjas, George. "EXODUS: How Migration Is Changing Our World." Review of Lessons from Immigration Economics, by Collier, Paul. Independent Review, 22.3, Winter 2018: 329-340.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "To Understand the Tax Reform Bill, Use Good Old Math and History." Hill, December 10, 2017.
Bonica, Adam, and Maya Sen. "The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-048, December 2017.
Allison, Graham. "The Chairman of Everything." New Statesman 146.5395 (December 2017): 20-25.
Chan, Gabe, Anna P. Goldstein, Amitai Bin-Nun, Laura Diaz Anadon, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. "Six Principles for Public Energy Innovation Programs." Nature (December 2017).
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Virtual, Visible, and Actionable: Data Assemblages and the Sightlines of Justice." Big Data & Society 4.2 (December 2017).
Jorgenson, Dale W., and Paul Schreyer. "Measuring Individual Economic Well-Being and Social Welfare within the Framework of the System of National Accounts." Review of Income and Wealth 63.s2 (December 2017).
Fairfield, Tasha, and Candelaria Garay. "Redistribution Under the Right in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Organized Actors in Policymaking." Comparative Political Studies 50.14 (December 2017): 1871-1906.
Pfotenhauer, Sebastian, and Sheila Jasanoff. "Panacea or Diagnosis? Imaginaries of Innovation and the ‘MIT Model’ in Three Political Cultures." Social Studies of Science 47.6 (December 2017): 783-810.
Houde, Sebastien, and Joseph E. Aldy. "The Efficiency Consequences of Heterogeneous Behavioral Responses to Energy Fiscal Policies." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-047, December 2017.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "German Ordoliberals vs. American Pragmatists: What Did They Get Right or Wrong in the Euro Crisis?" Ordoliberalism: A German Oddity? CEPR Press, November 2017.
Andrews, Matthew. "Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in Uganda." Development Policy Review 36.S1 (November 2017): O159–O182.
Burns, Nicholas. "Dismantling the Foreign Service." New York Times, November 28, 2017.
Carter, Ashton B. "What I Learned from the People who Built the Atom Bomb." MIT Technology Review. November 2017.