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
Goodman, Joshua, Michael Hurwitz, Jonathan Smith, and Julia Fox. "The Relationship Between Siblings' College Choices: Evidence from One Million SAT-Taking Families." Economics of Education Review 48 (October 2015): 75-85.
Hogan, William W. "Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-059, October 2015.
Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C., Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel, and Jonathan T. Kolstad. "What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-060, October 2015.
Naik, Nikhil, Scott Duke Kominers, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, and César A. Hidalgo. "Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co- Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-061, October 2015.
Esterling, Kevin M., Archon Fung, and Taeku Lee. "How Much Disagreement is Good for Democratic Deliberation?" Political Communication 32.4 (October 2015): 529-551.
Elmendorf, Douglas. "Designing Federal Budget Policy to Spur Economic Growth." The Brookings Institution (October 13, 2015).
Ruggie, John Gerard. "Adding Human Rights Punch to the New Lex Mercatoria: The Impact of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on Commercial Legal Practice." European Journal of of International Law 6.3 (October 13, 2015): 455-461.
Adams, Gordon, and Stephen M. Walt. "A Road to Damascus, via Moscow." New York Times. October 13, 2015.
Pierce, Lamar, Todd Rogers, and Jason A. Snyder. "Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss." Journal of Experimental Political Science (October 2015): 1-16.
Freeman, Mark C., Gernot Wagner, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Climate Sensitivity Uncertainty: When is Good News Bad?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences. 373.2055 (October 2015).
Freeman, Mark C., Ben Groom, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and Adaptation to Climate Change." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences 373.2055 (October 2015).
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Why Support TPP? Critics should read the agreement and keep an open mind." Guardian, October 11, 2015.
Elmendorf, Douglas. "A Fairer Approach to Fiscal Reform." The Washington Post, October 11, 2015.
Gimate-Welsh H., Adrián S., Mark Fagan, and Guillermina MartÃnez Bermúdez. Lobbying. Biblioteca Nueva, 2015.
Reinhart, Carmen. "The Hidden Debt Burden of Emerging Markets." Project Syndicate, October 9, 2015.
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin, Krishanu Saha, and Sheila Jasanoff. "CRISPR Democracy: Gene Editing and the Need for Inclusive Deliberation." Issues in Science & Technology. October 2015.
Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, and Austin Frakt. "Correcting Signals for Innovation in Health Care." Hamilton Project, October, 2015.
Chandra, Amitabh, Amy Finkelstein, Adam Sacarny, and Chad Syverson. "Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-058, October 2015.
Rodrik, Dani. Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Ferguson, Ronald F., with Sarah F. Phillips, Jacob F. S. Rowley, and Jocelyn W. Friedlander. "The Influence of Teaching Beyond Standardized Test Scores: Engagement, Mindsets, and Agency." The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, October, 2015.
Pritchett, Lant. "Can Rich Countries be Reliable Partners for National Development." Horizons: Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development Winter (Vol 2) (2015).
Dobbie, Will and Roland Fryer. "The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools." Journal of Political Economy 123.5 (October 2015): 985-1037.
Elmendorf, Douglas. "Designing Federal Budget Policy to Spur Economic Growth." Business Economics 50 162-168.
Zang, Jinyan, Krysta Dummit, James Graves, Paul Lisker, and Latanya Sweeney. "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps." Technology Science (October 2015).
Sweeney, Latanya, Mercè Crosas, and Michael Bar-Sinai. "Sharing Sensitive Data with Confidence: The Datatags System." Technology Science (October 2015).
Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman. "When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint vs. Separate Evaluation." Management Science (September 29, 2015).
Allison, Graham. "U.S.-Russia Relations: What Would Henry Kissinger Do?" National Interest, September 28, 2015.
Borjas, George. "The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: A Reappraisal." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-057, September 2015.
Allison, Graham. "The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?" Atlantic, September 24, 2015.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Plaza Accord, 30 Years Later." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-056, September 2015.
Risse, Mathias, and John W. Meyer. "Thinking About the World: Philosophy and Sociology." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-054, September 2015.
Cordella, Tito, and Eduardo Levy Yeyati. "CATalytic Insurance: The Case of Natural Disasters." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-055, September 2015.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Is the American Century Over?" Political Science Quarterly 130.3 (September 2015): 393-400.
Letts, Christine W., Paula Doherty Johnson, and Colleen Kelly. "From Prosperity to Purpose: Perspectives on Philanthropy and Social Investment Among Wealthy Individuals in Latin America." UBS Philanthropy Advisory and Hauser Institute for Civil Society, 2015.
Hochschild, Jennifer L., and Maya Sen. "To Test or Not? Singular or Multiple Heritage? Genomic Ancestry Testing on Americans' Racial Identity." Du Bois Review 12.2 (Fall 2015): 321-347.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "The Use of Experiments in Health Care." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Ed. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Mukand, Sharun, and Dani Rodrik. "The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy." NBER Working Paper No. 21540, September 2015.
Hochschild, Jennifer L., and Maya Sen. "Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race: Views of the American Public." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 661 (September 2015): 160-180.
Bourreau, Marc, Pinar Dogan, and Sounman Hong. "Making Money by Giving It for Free: Radiohead’s Pre-Release Strategy for In Rainbows." Information Economics and Policy 32 (September 2015): 77-93.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "International Finance and Macroeconomics." NBER Reporter OnLine. 2015.
Groeling, Tim, and Matthew A. Baum. "The Longest War Story: Elite Rhetoric, News Coverage, and The U.S. War in Afghanistan." Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion, and War: Winning Domestic Support for the Afghan War. Ed. Beatrice de Graaf, George Dimitriu, and Jens Ringsmose. Routledge, 2015.
Borjas, George J. "The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again." Journal of Human Capital 9.4 (Winter 2015): 483-517.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "China's Rise and American Welfare." Peterson Institute for International Economics: China's Economic Transformation Lessons, Impact, and the Path Forward, September 2015.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Latin America and the Idea of International Human Rights." Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World. Ed. Jorge I. Dominguez and Ana Covarrubias. Routledge, 2015, 349-361.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Misinterpreting Chinese Intervention in Financial Markets." China-US Focus, September 10, 2015.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Uproar Over Hilary Clinton's E-Mails Misses the Point." Boston Globe, September 9, 2015.
Mukand, Sharun, and Dani Rodrik. "The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-052, September 2015.
Avery, Christopher, and Parag A. Pathak. "The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-053, September 2015.
Safaei, Hossein, and David Keith. "How Much Bulk Energy Storage is Needed to Decarbonize Electricity?" Energy and Environmental Science 8.12 (2015): 3409-3417.
Peterson, Paul E. "Does the Partisan Divide Include the K-12 Curriculum?" Education Week, September 4, 2015.