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
Bosio, Erica, Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, and Andrei Shleifer. "Public Procurement in Law and Practice." National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2020.
Kammili, Nagamani, Manisha Rani, Ashley Styczynski, Madhavi Iatha, Panduranga Rao Pavuluri, Vishnuvardhan Reddy, and Marcella Alsan. "Plasmid-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance Among Uropathogens in Primigravid Women—Hyderabad, India." PLOS One 15.5 (May 2020): e0232710.
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Nora Broege. "Searching for Work with a Criminal Record." Social Problems 67.2 (May 2020): 208-232.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 135.2 (May 2020): 785–843.
Burstein, Ariel, Gordon Hanson, Lin Tian, and Jonathan Vogel. "Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence From the United States." Econometrica 88.3 (May 2020): 1071-1112.
Cook, Benjamin Lê, Michael Flores, Samuel H. Zuvekas, Joseph P. Newhouse, John Hsu, Rajan Sonik, Esther Lee, and Vicki Fung. "The Impact of Medicare’s Mental Health Cost-Sharing Parity on Use of Mental Health Care Services: An Assessment of Whether Medicare Cost-Sharing Reductions for Outpatient Mental Health Services Was Associated with Changes in Mental Care Visits to Physicians and Psychotropic Medication Fills." Health Affairs 39.5 (May 2020): 819-827.
Akee, Randall K.Q., Eric C. Henson, Miriam R. Jorgensen, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Dissecting the US Treasury Department’s Round 1 Allocations of CARES Act COVID-19 Relief Funding for Tribal Governments." May 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.
Weidmann, Ben, and David J. Deming. "Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance." National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2020.
Van Bavel, Jay J., Katherine Baicker...Smith, Sandra Susan...et al. "Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response." Nature Human Behaviour 4 (April 2020): 460–471.
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Jonathan Simon, eds. The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution: Special Issue of RSF, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences). Russell Sage Foundation, April 2020.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, and Christopher Warshaw. "Politics in Forgotten Governments: The Partisan Composition of County Legislatures and County Fiscal Policies." Journal of Politics 82.2 (April 2020): 460-475.
Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods
Borjas, George. "Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-008, April 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.
Chandra, Amitabh, Mark Fishman, and Douglas Melton. "A Detailed Plan for Getting Americans Back to Work." Harvard Business Review. April 1, 2020.
Schneider, Daniel. "Paid Sick Leave in Washington State: Evidence on Employee Outcomes, 2016-2018." American Journal of Public Health 110.4 (April 2020): 499-504.
Dobbie, Will, and Jae Song. "Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers." American Economic Review 110.4 (April 2020): 984-1018.
Zlatev, Julian J., and Todd Rogers. "Returnable Reciprocity: When Optional Gifts Increase Compliance." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-007, March 2020.
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Jonathan Simon. "Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation of the Social Sciences 6.1 (March 2020): 1-27.
Kakani, Pragya, Michael Chernew, and Amitabh Chandra. "Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 26846, March 2020.
Idan, Edna, Anlu Xing, Javarcia Ivory, and Marcella Alsan. "Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 31.1 (February 2020): 115-127.
Shattuck, John, and Mathias Risse. "Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Women's Rights." Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, January 4, 2020.
Shepard, Mark, Katherine Baicker, and Jonathan Skinner. "Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits." Tax Policy and the Economy 34.1 (January 2020): 1-41.
Dietrich, Lars, and Ronald Ferguson. "Why Stigmatized Adolescents Bully More: The Role of Self-Esteem and Academic-Status Insecurity." International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 25.1 (January 2020): 305-318.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Naomi Hausman. "Innovation Policy and the Economy." Innovation Policy and the Economy 20.1 (January 2020): 233-299.
Glaeser, Edward L., Karima Kourtit, and Peter Nijkamp, eds. Urban Empires: Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World. Routledge, 2020.
Houston, David M., Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. "Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality." 2020.
Henderson, Michael B., David M. Houston, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West. "Public Support Grows for Higher Teacher Pay and Expanded School Choice Results from the 2019 Education Next Survey." Education Next 20.1 (January 2020).
Houtrow, Amy, Debbi Harris, Ashli Molinero, Tal Levin-Decanini, and Christopher Robichaud. "Children with Disabilities in the United States and the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine (January 2020): 1-10.
Wimer, Christopher, Zachary Parolin, Anny Fenton, Liana Fox, and Christopher Jencks. "The Direct Effect of Taxes and Transfers on Changes in the U.S. Income Distribution, 1967–2015." Demography 57 (2020): 1833–1851.
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).
Blair, Peter Q., and David J. Deming. "Structural Increases in Demand for Skill after the Great Recession." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (2020): 362-365.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Craig Garthwaite. "Economic Principles for Medicare Reform." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 686.1 (December 2019): 63-92.
Risse, Mathias, and Gabriel Wollner. On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Alsan, Marcella, Owen Garrick, and Grant Graziani. "Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland." American Economic Review 109.12 (December 2019): 4071-4111.
Chen, Jiafeng, Edward L. Glaeser, and David Wessel. "The (Non-) Effect of Opportunity Zones on Housing Prices." December 2019.
Newhouse, Joseph P., Mary Price, John Hsu, Bruce Landon, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Currently Reading Delivery System Performance as Financial Risk Varies." The American Journal of Managed Care (December 2019).
Seo, Veri, Travis P. Baggett, Anne N. Thorndike, Peter Hull, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Vicki Fung. "Access to Care Among Medicaid and Uninsured Patients in Community Health Centers After the Affordable Care Act." BMC Health Services Research 19.1 (December 2019): 291.
Risse, Mathias. "Human Rights & Social Order: Philosophical, Practical, and Public Policy Dimensions." December 2019.
Leary, Kimberlyn. "Mental Health and Communities of Color." Georgetown Law Center Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity, December 2019.
Leary, Kimberlyn. "Mental Health and Girls of Color." Georgetown Law Center Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity, December 2019.
Leary, Kimberlyn, and Chloe Greenbaum. "The Promise and Challenge of School-Based Mental Health Care for Girls of Color." Georgetown Law Center Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity, December 2019.
Leary, Kimberlyn. "Mental Health, School-Based Health Centers, and Girls of Color: Policy and Practice Recommendations." Georgetown Law Center Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity, December 2019.