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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
Saich, Anthony. "Xi doubles down on state-led growth." East Asia Forum, April 12, 2026.
Neerchal, Siri, and Daniel Schneider. "Work Schedule Quality and the Production of Parental Stress and Parenting Time." Social Service Review 100.2 (4/8/2026).
Furman, Jason. "Every President Tries It. It Never Works." New York Times, April 2, 2026.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "How Moral Psychology Can Help Us Understand Deep Contestation of the Prohibition on the Threat and Use of Force." Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2026.
Hussein, Shan Sherwan, and Hannah Riley Bowles. "When and Why Should We Care About Gender/Sex in Negotiation?" Gender and Leadership. London: Routledge, 2026.
Lo, Adeline, Jonathan Renshon, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "The effect of praise from peers on empathy and political inclusion towards racial or ethnic outgroups." Nature Human Behaviour (23 March 2026).
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Telling Americans the Truth About Immigration." Project Syndicate, March 20, 2026.
Elmendorf, Doug. "Microeconomic Policies and Macroeconomic Growth." London Business School, March 19, 2026.
Walt, Stephen. "The Israel Lobby’s Responsibility for the Iran War." Foreign Policy, March 17, 2026.
Jessee, Stepha, Neil Malhotra, and Maya Sen. "Is the Supreme Court veering rightward? The ebb and flow of representation." PNAS Nexus (March 2026).
Haigh, John, Nancy Rose, Jonathan Sallet. "What 150 Years of the Telephone Teaches Us About Regulating Digital Communications." ProMarket, March 10, 2026.
Furman, Jason. "This Is the Moment Adam Smith Has Been Waiting For." New York Times, March 9, 2026.
Furman, Jason. "‘There’s nothing consumers can do to hide’: Economist on impact of Trump’s Iran war." CNN, Amanpour, March 9, 2026.
Elmendorf, Doug. "How Economic and Budget Analysis Informs Policymaking." National Bureau of Economic Research, March 6, 2026.
Walt, Stephen. "The United States Is Still Addicted to War." Foreign Policy, March 2, 2026.
Jensen, Anders D. and Weigel, Jonathan L. "No Taxation without Administration: Bringing the State Back into the Public Finance of Developing Countries." Journal of Economic Literature 61.1 (March 1, 2026): 246-280.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "Anchoring Ukraine’s Postwar Recovery with a US-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement." March 2026.
Elmendorf, Douglas, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Zachary Liscow. "Policies to Reduce Federal Budget Deficits by Increasing Economic Growth." Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy 5 (2026): 41-75.
Bick, Alexander, Adam Blandin, David Deming, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, and Jonas Jessen. "Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the US." March 2026.
Surprise by Design: The Risks for Social Innovation when Surprise is Imposed as a Governing Strategy
Leary, Kimberlyn, and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld. "Surprise by Design: The Risks for Social Innovation when Surprise is Imposed as a Governing Strategy." Negotiation Journal (February 27, 2026).
Chandra, Amitabh, Kao, Jennifer, Miller, Kathleen L., Stern, Ariel. "Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation." The Review of Economics and Statistics 108.2 (February 27, 2026): 470-484.
Elmendorf, Doug. "Directions for Fiscal Policy Research." NBER Conference on Long-Term Fiscal Policy, February 26, 2026.
Furman, Jason. "Wall Street Week: February 27th, 2026." Wall Street Week - Bloomberg, February 26, 2026.
Gazmararian, Alexander F; Jensen, Nathan M; and Dustin Tingley. "Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2026 Feb 26).
Furman, Jason. "Harvard’s Jason Furman: SCOTUS tariff ruling ends Trump’s ability to arbitrarily adjust tariffs." CNBC, Squawk Box, February 24, 2026.
Sparrow, Malcolm. "They Stole Your Umbrella: Why Healthcare Professionals Should Support Stronger Fraud Controls." Missouri Medicine, Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, 123.1 (January-February 2026): 4-11.
Dynan, Karen, Kent Smetters, and Ellen Zentner. "Whither the federal budget?" Business Economics (17 February 2026).
Walt, Stephen. "Trump Is Playing Good Cop/Bad Cop With Europe." Foreign Policy, February 17, 2026.
Greenhill, Simon, Solomon Hsiang, Clare Balboni, Lint Barrage, Ian W. Bolliger, Judson Boomhower, Delavane Diaz, Hannah Druckenmiller, Teevrat Garg, Miyuki Hino, Harrison Hong, Carolyn Kousky, Jeremy Martinich, Ishan Nath, Kimberly L. Oremus, R. Jisung Park, Toan Phan, Jonathan Proctor, Will Rafey, Marcus C. Sarofim, Wolfram Schlenker, and Benjamin Simon. "Using markets to adapt to climate change." Science (12 Feb 2026).
Schulman, Jonathan, James N Druckman, Alauna Safarpour, Matthew A Baum , Katherine Ognyanova, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Alexi Quintana Mathé, Hong Qu, Ata Aydin Uslu, Roy H. Perlis, and David M.J. Lazer. "Continuity and Change in Trust in Scientists in the United States: Demographic Stability and Partisan Polarization Get access Arrow." Public Opinion Quarterly (10 February 2026).
Furman, Jason. "Jason Furman on the Federal Reserve." The Harvard Crimson, News Talk Podcast, February 9, 2026.
Quinn, Kelly, Katerine Perez, and Daniel Schneider. "Parents’ precarious work schedules and children’s asthma management." BMC Public Health (09 February 2026).
Walt, Stephen. "The Predatory Hegemon: How Trump Wields American Power." Foreign Affairs, March/April 2026.
Walt, Stephen. "NATO’s Leader Is Totally Lost." Foreign Policy, February 4, 2026.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Boosting Digital Success with Cross-Agency Collaboration." Government Technology (Winter 2026).
Zhelechian, Mohammad, Soroush Saghafian, and Omar Robles. "Harmonizing Safety and Speed: A Human-Algorithm Approach to Enhance FDA’s Medical Device Clearance Policy." Management Science (2025).
Berger, Ben, Amitabh Chandra,and Craig Garthwaite. "The Market-Expanding Role of Regulatory Approval in Medicine." The Review of Economics and Statistics (March 24, 2026).
Borjas, George. "The H-1B Wage Gap, Visa Fees, And Employer Demand." NBER Working Paper, February 2026.
Dafny, Leemore. "Health Insurance after Corporatization — What Next?" The New England Journal of Medicine (January 31, 2026).
Furman, Jason. "Four Rules for the New Fed Chair." The Free Press, January 31, 2026.
Furman, Jason, and Michael McKee. "Trump Taps Warsh For Fed Chair, Furman Reacts to Rate Hold." Bloomberg, January 31, 2026.
Loungani, Prakash, Slok, Thorson, Furman, Jason, Coy, Peter and Stevenson, Betsey. "The U.S. Economy in 2026: Resilience or Recession?" The John Hopkins University, January 30, 2026.
Walt, Stephen. "The Balance-of-Power Theory Strikes Again." Foreign Policy, January 23, 2026.
Stavins, Robert N. Review of The Story of Scotch Whisky—A Journey of Discovery into the World’s Noblest Spirit, by TOM BRUCE-GARDYNE. Journal of Wine Economics, 2026-01-22.
Furman, Jason. "Online Policy Forum (Asia/US Briefing)." National University of Singapore, January 21, 2026.
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, Elizabeth Linos, and Heidi Wallace. "Stigma and the Social Safety Net." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP26-001, January 2026.
Perlis, Roy H., Faith M. Gunning, Ata Usla, Mauricio Santillana, PhD; Matthew A. Baum, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. "Generative AI Use and Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults." JAMA Network Open (January 21, 2026).
Perlis, Roy H., Anudeepa K Ramachandiran, Pilar F Verhaak, Mauricio Santillana, Matthew A Baum, James N Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, David Lazer. "Antidepressant use among American adults in a 50-state survey." BMJ Mental Health (21 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.
Walt, Stephen. "What Spheres of Influence Are—and Aren’t." Foreign Policy, January 19, 2026.