Directions for Fiscal Policy Research
I first started thinking seriously about fiscal policy in 1985, as a third-year graduate student at Harvard and a new research assistant for Marty Feldstein.
Research
Jason Furman on the Federal Reserve
The Harvard Crimson's podcast Newstalk returns with special guest Jason Furman, who speaks on the Federal Reserve and President Trump's new nominee for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh.
Partisan Polarization in Local Politics
A growing body of scholarship investigates the extent to which national partisan polarization filters down to the local level.
Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest
Protests constitute a primary way that members of the public express their preferences and seek to change public policy.
Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database
The TJET project offers a comprehensive database for exploring the supply of transitional justice (TJ) in every country of the world.
Alphabet Soup: Randomized Ballot Order and the Representation of Marginalized Candidates
Ballot order has the power to shape electoral outcomes: even when randomly assigned, candidates listed first receive more votes.
Lessons for Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers from the Great Recession and the COVID Recession
This paper simulates economic developments as if the discretionary fiscal stimulus enacted in the past two recessions had not occurred and additional automatic fiscal stabilizers had been deployed ins
The Impact of Advanced AI Systems on Democracy
Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. Here we ask what impact this will have on the democratic process.
Are MAGA Voters Rational?
Since the study of economics relies on the assumption that people largely act in their rational self-interest, when people vote otherwise, economists are likely to blame faulty or missing information.
Funding the Growth Machine: The Effects of Municipal Campaign Contributions on Housing Policy Outcomes
Money in politics is the subject of great debate at every level of government, yet it has principally been studied at the federal level in the U.S.
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