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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
Keppeler, Florian, Elizabeth Linos, Brenda Sciepura, Rune Godske Cachmann, Karalyn Lacey, Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen. "What works in international health worker recruitment: a megastudy." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP26-004, July 2026.
Spohn, Max, Amira Boland, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Elizabeth Linos, Weston Merrick, Pedro Rey-Biel, Theodore Svoronos. "A Research Agenda for Making Evidence Useful, Usable, and Used." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP26-003, July 2026.
Kaslovsky, Jaclyn, Daniel J. Moskowitz, and Benjamin Schneer. "Adaptive Representation in the U.S. Congress." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP26-002, July 2026.
Furman, Jason. "Experts weigh in on June jobs report." Squawk Box, CNBC, July 2, 2026.
Woods, Tyler, Kristen Harknett, and Daniel Schneider. "The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support." Sociological Science 13 (July 2026): 772-801.
Dynan, Karen, Doug Elmendorf, and Louise Sheiner. "How Might Fiscal Policy Respond to the Rise of Artificial Intelligence?" The Forces Shaping America’s Fiscal Future, University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business and The Brookings Institution, June 26, 2026.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and David Arbelaez. "Fair Workweek Laws in the U.S.: An Appraisal of Intended and Unintended Consequences." Science Advances 12.26 (24 June 2026).
Frankel, Jeffrey. "The Meaning of Limited Government—Then and Now." Project Syndicate, June 18, 2026.
Ballentine, Kess L., Meredith Slopen, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "The prevalence and consequences of punitive time and attendance policies in the food and retail industries." Community, Work & Family (6/18/2026): 1-23.
Dost, Meredith, Jennifer Hochschild, and Elizabeth Suhay. "Americans’ perspectives on forensic and scientific genomic biobanks: Engaging with new technologies for democratic decision-making." Politics and the Life Sciences (17 June 2026).
Furman, Jason. "Furman on Social Security: Attention must be paid." The Harvard Gazette, 06/17/2026.
Walt, Stephen. "It’s Time to Stop Hunting Monsters." Foreign Policy, June 16, 2026.
Furman, Jason. "I Worked in the White House. We Never Imagined This Problem Would Get This Bad." New York Times, 06/12/2026.
Aldy, Joseph, Jun Gao, and Kenneth T. Gillingham. "Tax Policy and Power Sector Decarbonization." June 12, 2026.
Furman, Jason. "Economists Weigh In on the Future of Work and AI." Wall Street Journal, 06/09/2026.
Walt, Stephen. "How to Escape Blame for Bad Advice." Foreign Policy, June 9, 2026.
Tucker-Foltz, Jamie, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Cheap Talk in Bilateral Trade." M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series, June 8, 2026.
Deming, David. "Some high school grads head to trade school vs. college." Good Morning America, June 8, 2026.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Interdependence without Trust: Human Rights and Transitional Justice." The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 50.II (Summer 2026).
Slopen Meredith, Kristen Harknett, and Daniel Schneider. "Points-Based Attendance Systems Associated With Presenteeism Despite Paid Sick Leave Protections." Health Affairs 45.6 (6/1/2026): 684-691.
Wall, Alec, Jessica Lasky-Fink, and Elizabeth Linos. "How do Americans View Government Workers?" The People Lab, June 2026.
DiPasquale, Denise, Edward Glaeser, Adam M. Guren, and Paul S. Willen. "Prices Versus Quantities Revisited: What Do Policymakers Need to Know to Set Pigouvian Taxes and Subsidies?" June 2026.
Furman, Jason. "AI Is Not Our Destiny. You Are." The Harvard Crimson, 05/28/2026.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump Should Just Admit He Screwed Up." Foreign Policy, May 28, 2026.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Americans Can’t Afford Trump’s Economy." Project Syndicate, May 28, 2026.
Dafny, Leemore. "Breaking Up Health Care Conglomerates—The Right Fix Right Now?" JAMA (May 28, 2026).
Chenoweth, Erica and Sooyeon Kang. "The Major Episodes of Contention (MEC) data project: an introduction." Journal of Peace Research (27 May 2026).
Wilk, Thomas, Emilia Simeonova, Randall Akee, Stephanie Carroll, and Ninez A. Ponce. "The Disproportionate Burden: Health and Economic Outcomes of COVID-19 for Native American Communities." May 27th, 2026.
Dynan, Karen, and Doug Elmendorf. "Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis." Econofact, May 26, 2026.
Furman, Jason, and David Laibson. "60 Percent of Grades at Harvard Were A’s. Enough Is Enough." New York Times, 05/21/2026.
Farrokhi, Farid, Samuel Kortum, and Ishan Nath. "Climate change, climate policy, and trade." Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change. Ed. Lint Barrage, and Solomon Hsiang. Cambridge: Elsevier, 2026, 85-170.
Rodrik, Dani. "Dani Rodrik: Why East Asia's manufacturing-led growth model may no longer help economies emerge." mint Premium. 05/20/2026.
Isley, Calvin, Johann D. Gaebler, and Sharad Goel. "Mitigating Label Bias with Interpretable Rubric Embeddings." arXiv, 20 May 2026.
Dynan, Karen. "Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics." AEA Papers and Proceedings 116 (May 2026): 831-834.
Furman, Jason. "'How low can you go?': Key Trump demos face flaring financial unease." CNN, 05/18/2026.
Huybers, Peter, Marco Tabellini, Charles Taylor, and Francesco Toti. "Climate and Prehistoric Migration." CEPR Discussion Papers, 18 May 2026.
Furman, Jason. "Jerome Powell's impact and legacy at the Federal Reserve." PBS News Hour, 05/15/2026.
La Ferrara, Eliana, Cheaheom Lim, and Davide Viviano. "Estimating Social Norm Complementarities." May 14, 2026.
Furman, Jason. "He Was Good at Steering the Fed, but He Was a Genius at Ignoring Trump’s Threats." New York Times, May 14, 2026.
Perlis RH, Gunning FM, Uslu A, Santillana M, Baum MA, Druckman JN, et al. "Emulated trial of artificial intelligence use and subsequent depressive outcomes in a survey of US adults." BMJ Mental Health (formerly Evidence-Based Mental Health) Volume 29.Issue 1 (05/2026).
Perlis, Roy H., Faith M. Gunning Ata Uslu, Mauricio Santillana, Matthew A. Baum, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. "Emulated trial of artificial intelligence use and subsequent depressive outcomes in a survey of US adults." BMJ Mental Health (13 May 2026).
Walt, Stephen. "Chinese Hegemony Might Be Happening." Foreign Policy, May 12, 2026.
Minson, Julia, Erlich, Aaron, Gans-Morse, Jordan, Higgins, Christopher, Appel, Ruth Elizabeth, Baumann, Christiane, Bai, Hui, Chen, Sarah, Davis Thomander, Sierra, Dorison, Charles, Halperin, Eran, Jost, John, Falch, Fabian, Lee, Irene, Lerner, Jennifer, Makarin, Alexey, Moore, Molly, Nir, Nimrod, Radnitz, Scott, Risen, Jane, Schweitzer, Maurice, Shirikov, Anton, Syunyaev, Georgiy, Vlasceanu, Madalina, Wang, Ke, Zeldin, N. "Countering Authoritarian Censorship via Grassroots Communication Campaigns: Evidence from an Experimental Mega-Study in Wartime Russi." Nature Portfolio Preprint (May 12, 2026).
Rodrik, Dani. "How I Became a Manufacturing Skeptic." Project Syndicate, May 12, 2026.
Allenbach, John, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Strategic Information Asceticism: Denying Self to Deny Others." M-RCBG Associate Working Paper Series 2026-04, May 10, 2026.
Power, Samantha. "The Case for Empathy Optimism (Amid All)." 2026 Commencement Address, American University School of International Service, May 9, 2026.
Zhang, Minmin, Aghaei, Sina and Saghafian, Soroush. "Large Language Models for Sequential Decision-Making: Improving In-Context Learning via Supervised Fine-Tuning." ARXIV, 9 May 2026.
Flanigan, Bailey, Florian Foos, Archon Fung, and Charles Stewart. "Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: Campaigns, Elections, Movements, and Deliberation." APSA Preprints, 06 May 2026.
Karnani, Mohit; Paul Peterson. "Charter School Expansion and Achievement: Evidence from Harlem, 1999-2025." May 5, 2026.
Campanella, Edoardo, Cameron Davis, Carlo Giannone, and John Haigh. "Public risk, private reward: The distributional implications of industrial policy." M-RCBG Associate Working Paper Series 2026-03, May 5, 2026.