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Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Cabral, Alex, Deeksha Punachithaya, Jim Waldo, and Josiah Hester. "Eclipse Dataset: Advancing Urban Sensing Research with Hyperlocal Environmental Data from Chicago." 06 May 2025.
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, Elizabeth Linos, and Heidi Wallace. "Stigma and the Social Safety Net." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP26-001, January 2026.
Ashraf, Nava, Alexia Delfino, Edward Glaeser, and Kim Sarnoff. "Why trust matters: female entrepreneurship and institutions in Zambia." International Growth Centre Policy Brief, November 2025.
Buna, Brian, Peter C. Frumhoff, Brendan M. Rogers, Stephane Sartzetakis, Carly A. Phillips, Christina Schädel, Rachael Treharne, Susan M. Natali, Alice Alpert, Matti Goldberg, John P. Holdren, Josep G. Canadell, Kate Dooley, Werner A. Kurz, Carlos Nobre, Emily Ury, and Steven P. Hamburg. "Policy solutions to better assess progress toward Paris goals given warming-induced ecosystem emissions, which shorten timelines by 2–5 years." One Earth (January 16, 2026).
Ramachandiran, Anudeepa K., Faith Gunning, Mauricio Santillana, Matthew A. Baum, Pilar F. Verhaak, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, David Lazer, Roy H. Perlis,. "Sociodemographic Disparities, Healthcare System Trust, and Social Support in Mental Health Treatment Among U.S. Adults with Depressive or Anxiety Symptoms." Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders (13 January 2026).
Hanna, Rema. "Embedding Research into Public Sector Programs." Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (January 13, 2026).
Kolt, Noam, Nicholas Caputo, Jack Boeglin, Cullen O'Keefe, Rishi Bommasani, Stephen Casper, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Noah Feldman, Iason Gabriel, Gillian K. Hadfield, Lewis Hammond, Peter Henderson, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Seth Lazar, Anka Reuel, Kevin L. Wei, and Jonathan Zittrain. "Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI." 7 Jan 2026.
Meyerson, Jacob , Mark Shepard, and Rick Peter Fritz Wolthusen. "Financing Community Mental Health Worker Programs in the United States: Three Paths Forward." Community Mental Health Journal (05 January 2026).
Chenoweth, Erica, and Matthew Cebul. "Why Gen-Z Is Rising." Journal of Democracy (January 2026).
Salant, Ilana, Mark Shepard, Nicole Maestas, Timothy J. Layton, and David C. Grabowski. "Community-Entry Home Health Made Up Nearly Half Of Home Health Episodes And Spending In Traditional Medicare, 2017–21." Health Affairs (January 2026).
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Why Haven’t Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the US Economy?" Project Syndicate, December 29, 2025.
Coots, Madison, Robert Bartlett, Julian Nyarko and, Sharad Goel. "A Profit-Based Measure of Lending Discrimination." 23 December 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump’s Fake Peace Deals Are Dangerous." Foreign Policy, December 22, 2025.
Alsan, Marcella, and David Cutler. "Prescription for Division—Healing the Growing Gap in Physician Trust." JAMA Health Forum (December 18, 2025).
Walt, Stephen. "‘Collective Security’ Is on Life Support." Foreign Policy, December 16, 2025.
Reinhart, Carmen. "Gambling With the Dollar’s Future." Project Syndicate, December 15, 2025.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick, Maxwell Palmer, and Christopher S. Warshaw. "Partisan Polarization in Local Politics." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP25-005, December 2025.
Beavers. Davod A. and, Jennifer Hochschild. "Local Experience, National Media, and Misperceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic." Political Communication (15 Dec 2025).
Cohen, Dara Kay, and Cassy Dorff. "Researching Human Rights Violations: Assessing Research-related Stress Among Research Assistants." Journal of Peace Research (December 11, 2025).
Furman, Jason. "Why former CEA chair Jason Furman says he would vote against a rate cut." CNBC, The Exchange, December 10, 2025.
Druckman, James N., Katherine Ognyanova, Alauna Safarpour, Jonathan Schulman, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Ata Aydin Uslu, Jon Green, Matthew A. Baum, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Hong Qu, Roy H. Perlis and David M. J. Lazer. "Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA." Nature Human Behaviour (08 December 2025).
Akee, Randall Kekoa, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark A. Loewenstein. "Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century." 2025.
Marotta, Tomás, Tomás Pacheco, Abigail Riquelme, Martín Rossi, and Federico Sturzenegger. "The Political Economy of Regulation: Origins, Distortions, and the Case for Deregulation." 2025-12.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "What Will the US Debt Reckoning Look Like?" Project Syndicate, November 28, 2025.
Romer, Paul, Dani Rodrik, Daron Acemoglu, Douglass North, and Angus Deaton. "Comparative Cradle-to-Grave Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and GHG Intensity for Switchgrass and Fossil Fuels." 26th November 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "The Top 10 Reasons to Be Thankful in 2025." Foreign Policy, November 26, 2025.
Bilmes, Linda J. "The Ghost Budget: U.S. War Spending & Fiscal Transparency." Daedalus 154.4 (Fall 2025): 87–105.
Ahuja, Ketan, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Catalysing Economic Growth through Powershoring." Industry on the road to 2050 A report prepared for the Climate Club. OCED: Climate Club, 18 November 2025.
D’Amico, Leonardo, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr, and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto. "Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, November 14, 2024.
Daly, Liza; Matteo Cargnelutti; Catherine Brobston; John Hess; Greg Leppert; Amanda Watson; and Jonathan Zittrain. "GRIN Transfer: A production-ready tool for libraries to retrieve digital copies from Google Books." 14 Nov 2025.
Bick, Alexander, Adam Blandin, and David Deming. "The State of Generative AI Adoption in 2025." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis On the Economy Blog, November 13, 2025.
Brooks, Arthur. "Leadership, Happiness, and Your Start-Up Life." Leader to Leader (12 November 2025).
Furman, Jason, and Shirin Ghaffary. "The Fact and Fiction Surrounding the AI Bubble." WAMU, November 11, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "The Would-Be Dictator’s Army." Foreign Policy, November 11, 2025.
Stavins, Robert N. Review of American History Through a Whiskey Glass, by Harris Cooper. Journal of Wine Economics, 10 November 2025: 1-2.
Aboulafia, Gabriella, and Daniel Schneider. "Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Workers in the Hourly Service Sector." JAMA Health Forum (November 7, 2025).
Bloome, Deirdre. "When We Target Federal Workers, Whom Are We Targeting? Three Perspectives on U.S. Federal Workers." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (November 6, 2025).
Elmendorf, Douglas. "The Role of Policy Analysts in Addressing the US Fiscal Challenge." National Tax Association 118th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 6, 2025.
Rodrik, Dani. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025.
Meade, Robert D., Felipe González-Casabianca, Rajan Rawal, Vidhya Venugopal, Tanya Isaac, Ahmed Shaikh, Tess Wiskel, Sneha Asrani, Dhruval Gadhvi, Peter j Huybers, Jennier Leaning, Tarun Khanna, Daniel P Schrag, Caroline Buckee, and Satchit Balsari. "Responding to rising heat in workplaces and homes of low income workers." BMJ (04 November 2025).
Duckman, James, Devorah Manekin, Lior Sheffer, Jennifer Oser, Tamar Mitts, Jae Yeon Kim, and Elizabeth McKenna. "Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest." 3 Nov 2025.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Larry Summers on the Fed, Argentina Elections, Hinton on AI, Trump’s H-1B Fee." Wall Street Week, Bloomberg TV, November 1, 2025.
Duflo, Esther, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, and Shreya Tando. "The Limits of Government Outsourcing: Property Tax Re-Assessments in India." November 2025.
Lamby, Lucas, Ketan Ahuja, Clement Brenot, and Ricardo Hausmann. "Catalyzing Green Growth in the UAE: Growth Opportunities in a Decarbonizing World." Growth Lab, November 2025.
Saghafian, Soroush. Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Central Bank Independence in Practice." Peterson Institute for International Economics, October 31, 2025.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "The Trouble with Abundance." Project Syndicate, October 30, 2025.
Summers, Lawrence H. "The China Economic Challenge: Strength, Fragility, and the Limits of Isolation." October 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Democratic Peace Theory, R.I.P." Foreign Policy, October 28, 2025.
Deep, Akash, and Hannah Wang. "The Triple Mandate of Development, Climate, and Humanitarian Aid." The Economists Voice (October 28, 2025).