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Harvard Kennedy School
 
David Deming
As a wave of new graduates opt for trade schools instead of four-year degrees, a look at what is behind the trend and what a livelihood could look post-trade school.
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Daniel Schneider
Vol. 45, Issue 6, Pages 684-691
Presenteeism, or attending work despite being ill enough to warrant absence, is endemic among working Americans. Although research suggests that paid sick leave mandates reduce…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Dani Rodrik
Industrialization was once expected to lead the emergence of underdeveloped economies.
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Dani Rodrik
Manufacturing used to be a powerful economic escalator because it could employ large numbers of low-skilled workers while making limited demands on low-income countries’…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Amitabh Chandra
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on a prodigious corpus of human writing and may reveal human preferences over characteristics of life courses, such as income, longevity,…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Joseph Newhouse
Objective: To examine the association between state increases in income or asset eligibility limits for Medicare Savings Programs (MSP), which provide assistance with Medicare…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Joseph Newhouse
IMPORTANCE When becoming eligible for Medicare, adults previously covered by Medicaid expansion are typically required to meet an asset test for Medicaid coverage of Medicare cost…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Christopher Norio Avery, Sharad Goel
There is a long-running debate over using standardized test scores to inform college and graduate admissions decisions, with some arguing that test scores are an important signal…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Daniel Schneider
Vol. 100, Issue 2
A large body of literature has documented the effects of work scheduling practices, such as nonstandard shifts, long work hours, and unpredictable schedules, on worker and family…
Harvard Kennedy School
 
Mark Shepard
Vol. 40, Issue 2, Pages 171-94
Medicaid is one of the largest public programs in the United States—providing health insurance to over 75 million low-income Americans—and over three quarters of its enrollees…