Roger B. Porter is IBM Professor of Business and Government. Joining the Kennedy School faculty in 1977, he has served for more than a…
Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard is George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management at the Kennedy School and Eliot I. Snider and Family…
Governments often require that products carry warnings to inform people about risks. The warnings approach, as opposed to the command and…
We propose a new method to measure persuasion within small groups, and apply this method to a large scale randomized deliberative…
We document the loan provisions in 401(k) savings plans and how participants use 401(k) loans. Although only about 22% of savings plan…
Book abstract: The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become…
We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise tax increases -…
Female “empowerment” has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals.…