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2008

Blendon RJ, Altman DE, Benson JM, Brodie M, Buhr T, Deane C, Buscho S,

"Voters and Health Reform in the 2008 Presidential Election."

New England Journal of Medicine, 359(19):2050-2061, November 6, 2008.

Blendon RJ, Buhr T, Sussman T, Benson JM,

“Massachusetts Health Reform: A Public Perspective from Debate through Implementation.”

Health Affairs, web exclusive, 27(6):w556-w565, October 28, 2008.

Braga, Anthony A. and Brenda J. Bond.

"Policing Crime and Disorder Hot Spots: A Randomized Controlled Trial."

Criminology 46 no. 3 (August 2008).

Braga, Anthony A., David Hureau, and Christopher Winship.

"Losing Faith? Police, Black Churches, and the Resurgence of Youth Violence in Boston."

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 6 no. 1 (Fall 2008). pp. 141-172.

Chandra, Amitabh.

“Myths and Misconceptions about Health Insurance,”

Health Affairs October 21st 2008, with Katherine Baicker.

Pepper D. Culpepper,

“The Politics of Common Knowledge: Ideas and Institutional Change in Wage Bargaining.”

International Organization 62:1, January 2008, pp. 1-33.

Pepper D. Culpepper and Kathleen Thelen,

“Institutions and Collective Actors in the Provision of Training:  Historical and Cross-National Comparisons.”

In Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga, eds., Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 21-49

Ferguson, Ronald,

"What We’ve Learned about ‘Stalled Progress’ in Closing the Black-White Achievement Gap.”

In Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, eds., Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap.  New York: Russell Sage.  2008.

Ferguson, Ronald,

“Helping Students of Color Meet High Standards.”

In Mica Pollock, ed., Everyday Anti-Racism.  New York: New Press.  2008.

Maria Glymour, Ichiro Kawachi, Christopher Jencks, and Lisa F. Berkman,

“Does Childhood Schooling Affect Old Age Memory Or Mental Status? Using State Schooling Laws As Natural Experiments,”

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2008, 62:532-37.

Keyssar, Alexander.

"The Way of the Ship,"

with Alex Roland and W. Jeffrey Bolster (John Wiley and Sons, 2008).

Mansbridge, Jane,

“Deliberative Democracy or Democratic Deliberation?”

in Shawn W. Rosenberg, ed., Deliberation, Participation, and Democracy: Can the People Govern?  (NY:  Palgrave Macmillan 2008), 251-271.

Stathis N. Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro, and Tarek Masoud,

"Order, Conflict, and Violence,"

Cambridge University Press, September 2008.

Tarek Masoud,

"Islamist Parties: Are They Democrats? Does it Matter?"

Journal of Democracy, 19:3 July 2008.

John W. Rowe, Tina Brown-Stevenson, Roberta L. Downey, and Joseph P. Newhouse,

“The Effect of Consumer Directed Health Plans on the Use of Preventive and Chronic Illness Services,”

Health Affairs, January/February 2008, 27(1):113-20.

Richard G. Frank and Joseph P. Newhouse,

“Mending Medicare Part D: Improving Consumer Choices and Restructuring Purchasing,”

in Who Has the Cure?, ed. Jason Furman, Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2008, pp. 143-74.

Sparrow, Malcolm K.,

"The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control,"

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England & New York, USA.  2008.

Malcolm K. Sparrow (principal author), Edward W. Stimpson (Chair), J. Randolph Babbitt, William O. McCabe, Carl W. Vogt.

“Managing Risks in Civil Aviation: A Review of the FAA’s Approach to Safety”

Report of the Independent Review Team, a Blue Ribbon Panel appointed by Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters.  Washington D.C.  September 2nd, 2008.

Western, Bruce, Deirdre Bloome, and Christine Percheski. 2008.

"Inequality Among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005.''

American Sociological Review 73:903-920.

Western, Bruce. 2008.

"From Prison to Work: A Proposal for a National Prisoner Reentry Program."

Hamilton Project Discussion Paper 2008-16. Washington DC: Brookings Institution.

2007

Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger.

"Productivity Spillovers in Health Care: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks."

Journal of Political Economy 115.1 (February 2007): 103-140.

Cook, Philip J., Jens Ludwig, Sudhir Venkatesh, and Anthony A. Braga.

"Underground Gun Markets."

The Economic Journal 117 (November 2007): F1-F29.

Culpepper, Pepper D.,

"Eppure, non si muove: Legal Change, Institutional Stability, and Italian Corporate Governance.”

West European Politics 30:4, September 2007, pp. 784-802.

Culpepper, Pepper D.,

"Small States and Skill Specificity: Austria, Switzerland, and Interemployer Cleavages in Coordinated Capitalism."

Comparative Political Studies 40:6, June 2007, pp. 611-637.

Dehejia, Rajeev, Thomas DeLeire, and Erzo F.P. Luttmer.

"Insuring Consumption and Happiness through Religious Organizations,"

Journal of Public Economics, 91(1-2), pp. 259-279, February 2007.

England, Paula and Kathryn Edin, editors.

"Unmarried Couples with Children: The Unfolding Lives of New Unmarried Urban Parents."

New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.

Kalt, Joseph P.,

"The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination"

(with The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development), Oxford University Press, 2008 (released June 2007).

Kalt, Joseph P.,

"Development, Governance, Culture: What Are They and What Do They Have to Do with Rebuilding Native Nations?”

(with Manley A. Begay, Jr., Stephen Cornell, and Miriam Jorgensen), in M. Jorgensen, ed., Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development, University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Keyssar, Alexander.

“How Not to Choose a President.”

LA Times. October 28, 2007.

Leigh, Andrew and and Christopher Jencks,

"Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries,"

Journal of Health Economics, January 2007, 26:1-24.

Edited by Anthony Braga, Jeffrey Fagan, Tracey Meares, Robert Sampson, Tom R. Tyler, and Christopher Winship.

"Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Perspective."

Russell Sage Press, 2007.

Luttmer, Erzo F.P.

"Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?"

Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy, 7(1), Article 49, October 2007.

Mansbridge, Jane J.,

"Self-Interest in Deliberation"

Kettering Review, 25:1, Winter 2007, 62-72.

Mansbridge, Jane J.,

"The Cultural Politics of Everyday Discourse: The Case of 'Male Chauvinist'"

(with Katherine Flaster) Critical Sociology, 33: 627-660 (2007).

Newhouse, Joseph P., Erica Seiguer, and Richard G. Frank,

"Was Part D a Giveaway to the Pharmaceutical Industry?"

Inquiry, Spring 2007, 44(1), 15-25.

Newhouse, Joseph P.,

"Medicare Spending on Physicians – No Easy Fix in Sight,”

New England Journal of Medicine, May 3, 2007, 356(18), 1883-1884.

Stone, Christopher.

"Tracing Police Accountability in Theory and Practice."

Theoretical Criminology 11 no. 2 (2007).

Wilson, William J.,

"Speaking to Publics"

in Public Sociology:  Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century (ed. by Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, Douglas L. Anderton, and Michael Burawoy), pp. 117-123.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2007.

Wilson, William J.,

"A New Agenda for America’s Ghetto Poor”

in Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream (eds. John Edwards, Marion Crane, and Arne L. Kalleberg), pp. 88-98. New York:  The New Press, 2007.

2006

Blendon RJ, Altman DE,

"Voters and Health Care in the 2006 Election."

New England Journal of Medicine, 355(18):1928-1933, November 2, 2006.

Borjas, George.

"The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants."

The Economics of Entrepreneurship. Ed. Simon C. Parker. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.

Braga, Anthony A. and David L. Weisburd. 2006.

"Police Innovation and the Future of Policing.”

In Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives, edited by David L. Weisburd and Anthony A. Braga. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Culpepper, Pepper D.

"Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make."

(Edited volume, with Peter Hall and Bruno Palier). Palgrave-Macmillan 2006. (French translation published as La France en Mutation 1975-2005.  Presses de Sciences-Po, 2006).

Dynarski, Susan.

"The Cost of Complexity in Student Financial Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics"

(with Judith Scott-Clayton). Published in National Tax Journal. 2006. 

Turney, Kristin, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Jeffrey Kling and Greg Duncan.

"Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment: Results from a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment in Baltimore.”

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs.

Ferguson, Ronald F.,

"Five Challenges to Effective Teacher Professional Development,"

Journal of Staff Development. Vol. 27, No. 4.  Fall 2006.

Christopher Jencks and Laura Tach,

"Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility?”

in Stephen Morgan, David Grusky, and Gary Fields, editors. Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics.” Stanford University Press, 2006.

Kalt, Joseph P.,

“Constitutional Rule and the Effective Governance of Native Nations,”

in Eric D. Lemont, ed., Contemporary American Indian Constitutionalism and the Rebuilding of Native Nations, University of Texas Press, 2006.

Keyssar, Alexander.

"Inventing America: A History of the United States, 2^nd edition,"

with Daniel Kevles, Pauline Maier, and Merritt Roe Smith, January 2006, Norton.

Luttmer, Erzo F.P.,

“Private Investment and Government Protection,”

(with Carolyn Kousky and Richard J. Zeckhauser), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 33(1-2), pp. 73-100, September 2006.

Mansbridge, Jane J.,

“Norms of Deliberation: An Inductive Study”

(with Matthew Amengual, Janette Hartz-Karp, and John Gastil), Journal of Public Deliberation 2 (1):  1-47 (2006).

John T. Hsu, Maggie Price, Jie Huang, Richard Brand, Vicki Fung, Rita Hui, Bruce Fireman, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Joseph V. Selby,

“Medicare Drug Benefit Caps: Unintended Consequences,”

New England Journal of Medicine, 354(22), June 1, 2006, pp. 2349-2359.

Ruggie, Mary.

“Fading Health, Fragile Health Policy: Will Shame Spur Action?”

in Paul Hodge (ed.), Baby Boomer Women: Secure Futures or Not? (Baby Boomer Media Group: Cambridge, Mass., 2006).

Sparrow, Malcolm K.,

“Corruption in Health Care Systems: The American Experience,”

in Global Corruption Report 2006: Special Focus – Corruption & Health, Transparency International, Berlin, Germany.  2006.  pp16-22

Stone, Christopher.

“Crime, Justice Systems, and Development Assistance.”

The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 2 – Law, Equity and Development. Ed. The World Bank. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic, 2006.

Wilson, Julie B.,

"What if…?  Innovations in Child Welfare Practice."

October, 2006. Prepared for the Executive Session "Examining Future Directions for Community-Oriented Child Welfare Efforts: What Have We Accomplished?  What Have We Learned? Where Will We Go Next?”

Wilson, William J.,

"There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America."

New York: Knopf, 2006.

Source: Annual Harvard Kennedy School Research Report