How has slavery shaped the politics of the United States over the last century and a half since emancipation? Our book, Deep Roots (Acharya…
Are application hassles, or “ordeals,” an effective way to limit public program enrollment? We provide new evidence by studying (removal of…
LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models
The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal…
This report on elite philanthropy presents the latest findings from the Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute’s China…
We explore changes over time in how financially prepared Americans are for retirement, with a focus on the relative positions of Black and…
Workplace sexual harassment and violence inflict a variety of costs on survivors, raising important questions about prevention: changing…
Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) is a set of technologies
that capture carbon dioxide (CO2) at point source and either…
Adverse selection is a classic market failure known to limit or “unravel” trade in insurance markets and many other settings. We show that…
In the spring of 2023, the Data-Smart City Solutions team at the Harvard Kennedy School (vlog) hosted 30 large-city chiefs of staff at the…
The Jury Selection Working Group of the Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts has released a new research brief…