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Feature: Against Rule-of-Thumb Economics

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Feature: Leaders’ Psychological Bravery

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Feature: Dollar vs. Euro as International Reserve Currencies

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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

Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa

Hausmann, Ricardo, Tim O’Brien, Andrés Fortunato, Alexia Lochmann, Kishan Shah, Lucila Venturi, Sheyla Enciso-Valdivia, Ekaterina Vashkinskaya, Ketan Ahuja, Bailey Klinger, Federico Sturzenegger, and Marcelo Tokman. "Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, November 2023.

COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World

Chen, Martha, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Mike Rogan, and Marcela Valdivia. "COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World." Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), July 2021.

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2021.

Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2020: Reversals of Fortune

Woolcock, Michael and Samuel Freije-Rodriquez. "Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2020: Reversals of Fortune." World Bank, October 2020.

Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Brief

Bonnet, Florence, Joann Vanek, and Martha Chen. "Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Brief." WIEGO and ILO, January 2019.

More School or More Learning? Evidence from Learning Profiles from the Financial Inclusion Insights Data

Kaffenberger, Michelle, and Lant Pritchett. "More School or More Learning? Evidence from Learning Profiles from the Financial Inclusion Insights Data." May 2017.

Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals

Pritchett, Lant, and Justin Sandefur. "Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals." February 2017.

Expanding the Economic Potential of Women Informal Workers

Chen, Martha. "Expanding the Economic Potential of Women Informal Workers." Secretariat, UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, December 2016.

Eliminating Legal Barriers from the Perspective of the Informal Economy

von Broembsen, Marlese, and Martha Chen. "Eliminating Legal Barriers from the Perspective of the Informal Economy." Secretariat, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, September 2016.

Leave No One Behind: A Call to Action for Gender Equality and Women's Economic Empowerment

Klugman, Jeni, Laura Tyson, and Panel and Deputy Panel Members of UN High Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment (including Martha Chen). "Leave No One Behind: A Call to Action for Gender Equality and Women's Economic Empowerment." Secretariat, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, September 2016.

The Urban Informal Economy: Towards More Inclusive Cities

Chen, Martha. "The Urban Informal Economy: Towards More Inclusive Cities." Urbanet, August 2016.

A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics

Vanek, Joann, Martha Chen, and Govindan Raveendran. "A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics." WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 8, May 2015.

Gender Gap Report 2014

Hausmann, Ricardo. "Gender Gap Report 2014." World Economic Forum, November 2014.

Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges

Chen, Martha. "Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges." WIEGO Working Paper (Statistics) No. 2, April 2014.

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers

Chen, Martha. "Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers." Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, April 2014.

A World of Cities: The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries

Glaeser, Edward L. "A World of Cities: The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries." National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2013.

The Churches, Foreign Policy, and Global Poverty:
New Approaches? New Partnerships?

Bane, Mary Jo. "The Churches, Foreign Policy, and Global Poverty: New Approaches? New Partnerships?" Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland Working Paper, November 2011.

Impact Evaluation of Niger’s IMAGINE Program

Dumitrescu, Anca, Dan Levy, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan. "Impact Evaluation of Niger’s IMAGINE Program." Mathematica Policy Research, September 2011.

Measuring Discrimination in Education

Hanna, Rema, and Leigh Linden. "Measuring Discrimination in Education." NBER Working Papers 15057, June 2009.