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

Hanson, Gordon, Pia Orrenius, and Madeline Zavodny. "US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 37.1 (Winter 2023): 199-222.
Kuhlman, Elizabeth, and Daniel Schneider. "Most Hourly Workers at Large Service Sector Firms Still Lack Paid Sick Leave." Shift Project Research Brief, October 2023.
Pinto, Sanjay, Phoebe Strom, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Mitigating the Impacts of Sexual Harassment: Evidence from a National Survey of Retail and Restaurant Workers." Shift Project Research Brief, July 2023.
Autor, David, Anne Beck, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson. "Help for the Heartland? The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States." CEPR Discussion Paper Series, 8 June 2023.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Diana Da In Lee, Yamil R. Velez, and Christopher Warshaw. "American Local Government Elections Database." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-013, September 2022 (rev. June 2023).
O’Herron, Charlotte, and Daniel Schneider. "Dreams Deferred: Downward Mobility and Making Ends Meet in the Service Sector." Shift Project Research Project, June 2023.
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." American Economic Review 113.6 (June 2023): 1424-1460.
Raphael, Steve and Daniel Schneider. "Introduction to The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9.3 (May 2023): 1-30.
Woods, Tyler, Dylan Nguyen, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Why Are Young Workers Leaving Their Jobs?" Shift Project Research Brief, March 2023.
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the US." JAMA Health Forum 4.2 (February 2023): e230187.
Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, Annette Gailliot, and Jeremy Mopsick. "Working in the Service Sector in Michigan." Shift Project Research Brief, February 2023.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin and Michael Hankinson. "How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy." Political Behavior (2022).
Aiyar, Yamini, Rolf Alter, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics." Public Sector Economics Journal (December 2022): 456-458.
Smith, Sandra Susan. "How Pretrial Incarceration Diminishes Individuals' Employment Prospects." Federal Probation 86.3 (December 2022): 11-18.
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, Bruce Western, Yamrot Negussie, and Emily Backes, eds. Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy. National Academies Press, 2022.
Zundl, Elaine, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Paid Family Leave and New Jersey’s Service Sector Workforce." Shift Project Research Brief, November 2022.
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cierra Robson. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-014, September 2022.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, Daniel Jones, and Christopher Warshaw. "How Partisanship in Cities Influences Housing Policy." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-035, August 2022.
Evelyn Bellew, Kristen Harknett, and Daniel Schneider. "Low Pay, Less Predictability: Fast Food Jobs in California." Shift Project Research Brief, August 2022.
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-038, November 2020 (Updated July 2022).
Schneider, Daniel and Kristen Harknett. "Good if you can get it: Benefits and inequalities in the expansion of paid sick leave during COVID-19." Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Community Development Issue Briefs, April 2022.
Herring, Christopher and Sandra Susan Smith. "The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation." Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Policy Brief, March 2022.
Schneider, Daniel and Kristen Harknett. "What's to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection." Sociological Methods and Research 51.1 (February 2022): 108-140.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Sigrid Luhr. "Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules? Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements." Social Problems 69.1 (February 2022): 164-183.
Zundl, Elaine, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, and Evelyn Bellew. "Still Unstable: The Persistence of Schedule Uncertainty During the Pandemic." Shift Project Research Brief, January 2022.
Jorgensen, Isabella, and Sandra Susan Smith. "The Current State of Bail Reform in the United States: Results of a Landscape Analysis of Bail Reforms Across All 50 States." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-033, December 2021.
Ang, Desmond, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt. "Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-022, September 2021.
Schneider, Daniel. "Unstable, unpredictable, and insufficient: Work scheduling in the service sector in New England." Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Community Development Issue Briefs, September 2021.
Zundl, Elaine, Daniel Schneider, Julia Goodman, Evelyn Bellew, and Kristen Harknett. "Paid Family & Medical Leave In the U.S. Service Sector." Shift Project, Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy, June 2021.
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Connecticut Workers Deserve Predictable Hours." CT Mirror. June 2021.
Ang, Desmond. "The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students." Quarterly Journal of Economics 136.1 (February 2021): 115-168.
Ang, Desmond, and Jonathan Tebes. "Civic Responses to Police Violence." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-033, October 2020.
Smith, Sandra Susan. "We’ve Seen These Proposed Boston Police Reforms before -- They Don’t Work." Boston Globe, October 16, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers." Social Forces (August 2020).
Schneider, Daniel, Ben Bowyer, Jamie Austin, and Jacob Leos-Urbel. "Taking Count: Poverty, Insecurity, and Privilege in the Bay Area." July 30, 2020.
Harknett, Kristen, and Daniel Schneider. "Essential Workers Should Be Treated with More Respect." San Francisco Chronicle. July 11, 2020.
Ang, Desmond. "The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-016, June 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Essential and Vulnerable: Service-Sector Workers and Paid Sick Leave." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Megan Collins. "Working in the Service Sector in New Jersey." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel. "Essential and Unprotected: COVID-19-Related Health and Safety Procedures for Service-Sector Workers." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
Bloemraad, Irene, Benjamin Bowyer, Taeku Lee, Daniel Schneider, Kim Voss, Jamie Austin, and Jacob Leos-Urbel. "Taking Count: A Study on Poverty in the Bay Area." Tipping Point Community, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Close to the Edge: Service Workers and Their Children at the Front Lines of a Crisis." William T. Grant Foundation Blog, April 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Paid Sick Leave in Virginia: Evidence from the Shift Project." Shift Project, 2020.
Ho, Helen, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "COVID-19 Safety Measures Update." Shift Project, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Annette Gailliot. "Unemployed Without a Net: Few Unemployed Service Sector Workers Received UI and Many Experienced Hardships." Shift Project, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Estimates of Workers Who Lack Access to Paid Sick Leave at 91 Large Service Sector Employers." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel. "Precarious and Unequal: Job Quality in the Bay Area. Taking Count Survey Report, Tipping Point Community." 2020.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett. "Essential and Unprotected: While CA Leads the Way, America's Grocery, Retail and Food Service Workers Still Lack Paid Sick Leave Amid Pandemic." Sacramento Bee, 2020.
Harknett, Kristen, Daniel Schneider. "Precarious Work Schedules and Population Health." Health Affairs (2020).
Ang, Desmond. "Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 11.3 (July 2019): 1-53.