Discusses fiscal challenges facing local governments due to Covid19.
Yanilda MarÃa González is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on policing, state…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
The Covid-19 public health crisis has sharply reduced the earnings of millions of U.S. households, following the severe curtailment of…
The COVID-19 pandemic led to dramatic economic disruptions, including government-imposed restrictions that required millions of American…
Students work with newly elected mayors to launch their administrations
We examine a new data set of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure…
In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling,…
Students in Mark Fagan’s supply chain management course spent the spring semester using their skills to help organizations on the front…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…