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| David Williams
May 12, 2021, Opinion: "Over the past half-century, understanding of health and health care disparities in the United States — including underlying social, clinical, and system-level contributors — has increased. Yet disparities persist. Eliminating health disparities will require a movement away from disparities as the focus of research and toward a research agenda centered on achieving racial equity by dismantling structural racism."
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| Stefanie Stantcheva
April 13, 2021, Paper: "Covid-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities. This paper reviews the evidence to date on how long-standing fractures have been put into sharp relief by the pandemic and discusses policies to address them. The inequalities described take many forms and express themselves along various dimensions that interact with each other. Across the income distribution, pre-tax income inequalities, consumption and savings, job losses…
April 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, on his latest book, The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private…
| Regina E. Herzlinger
Spring 2021, Opinion: "U.S. healthcare delivery has not benefitted from the same productivity growth as many other service industries, such as bricks and mortar retailing, a loss that has gravely diminished cost control and access. Regulatory capture, which creates barriers to venture capital (VC) investment, has curtailed VC investment in the new entrants that can increase productivity. The important delivery innovations that occurred during…
| Sara Bleich
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "From the public statements and initial actions of the Biden administration, it is clear that addressing racial discrimination will be a high policy priority. This comes alongside a growing national awareness of the seriousness of the problem by leadership groups in healthcare and medicine. This article addresses 2 central issues related to racial discrimination in health care: the extent of reported discrimination in…
| Cass R. Sunstein
2021, Book: "The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should…
| David Williams
February 17, 2021, Video: "David Williams serves as the Director of Policy Outreach at Opportunity Insights, a research and public policy lab based at Harvard University dedicated to using big data to improve upward mobility in America. The lab is led by Professors Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Nathaniel Hendren. David is tasked with supporting research and evidence-based policy change by creating and leading partnerships with communities…
| Anders Jensen
February 16, 2021, Paper: "Public finances have been impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic. The disbursal of large economic and health support packages, coupled with a sharp contraction in economic activity, has led to growing fiscal deficits.1 The magnitude of these deficits remains unknown because of the uncertainty regarding when the public health crisis will subside – and by extension, how frequent and severe domestic containment…
| Kenneth Rogoff
February 11, 2021, Paper: "The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed a strong uptick in paper currency demand across advanced economies, even as contactless methods surged ahead of cash in payments. This article explores these two contrasting phenomena, which are in fact continuations of much longer-term trends. The use of cash, while still important for small in-person transactions, has been declining as a share of overall consumer…
| Youngme Moon | Felix Oberholzer-Gee | Mihir A. Desai | Rawi Abdelal
December 22, 2020, Audio: "Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai invite their new co-hosts, Harvard Business School professors Rebecca Henderson and Rawi Abdelal, onto the show to share their predictions for 2021, covering everything from business to politics to fashion. You can visit our website at HarvardAfterHours.com. You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: …