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
Gaduh, Arya, Tilman Graff, Rema Hanna, Gabriel Kreindler, and Benjamin Olken. "Designing a public transit network: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia." VoxDev (December 6, 2023).
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.
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-009, July 2022.
Ljunggren, Börje, and Dwight Perkins, eds. Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order. Harvard University Press, 2023.
Diodato, Dario, Ricardo Hausmann, and Frank Neffke. "The Impact of Return Migration on Employment and Wages in Mexican Cities." Journal of Urban Economics 135 (May 2023): 103557.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Ángel Santos, Jorge Tudela Pye, Frank Muci, Yang Li, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Ana Cristina Grisanti, and Jessie Lu. "Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Peruvian Amazonia." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, April 2023.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia." American Economic Review 113.2 (February 2023): 514-547.
Cheston, Timothy, Patricio Goldstein, Timothy Freeman, Alejandro Rueda-Sanz, Ricardo Hausmann, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Sebastián Bustos, Eduardo Lora, Sarah Bui, and Nidhi Rao. "Seeing the Forest for More Than the Trees: A Policy Strategy to Curb Deforestation and Advance Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, February 2023.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Ian Goldin. "Urban Rebirth: Economic Considerations for Reconstruction in Kharkiv and Ukraine." December 2022.
Hanson, Gordon H., Pia Orrenius, and Madeline Zavodny. "US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-023, November 2022.
Rosengard, Jay K. "The World’s Best-Kept Financial Inclusion Secret Revealed: The Untold Success Story of BRI Microbanking Since 1895." Ash Center Policy Briefs Series, November 2022.
Bai, Jie, Ludovica Gazze, and Yukun Wang. "Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry." The Review of Economics and Statistics 104.6 (November 2022): 1121-1137.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Daniel P. Stock, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. "Implied comparative advantage." Research Policy 51.8 (October 2022): 104143.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Ángel Santos, Frank Muci, Jorge Tudela Pye, Ana Grisanti, and Jessie Lu. "Overcoming Remoteness in the Peruvian Amazonia: A Growth Diagnostic of Loreto." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, October 2022.
Horn, Sebastian, Carmen Reinhart, and Christoph Trebesch. "Hidden Defaults." American Economics Papers and Proceedings 112 (May 2022): 531-535.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia." April 2022.
Sturzenegger, Federico, and Nicolas Der Meguerditchian. "A Balance-Sheet Model of Fiscal Policy in Namibia." Red Nacionale de Investigadores en Economia (RedNIE), April 2022.
Mayne, Quinton, and Alexia Katsanidou. "Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis." European Journal of Political Research (March 2022): 1-19.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Amy Finkelstein, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Arianna Ornaghi, and Sudarno Sumarto. "The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance." American Economic Review 11.9 (September 2021): 3035-3063.
Anderson, Weston, Charles A. Taylor, Sonali McDermid, Elisabeth Ilboudo-Nébié, Richard Seager, Wolfram Schlenker, Fabien Cottier, Alex de Sherbinin, Dara Mendeloff, and Kelsey Markey. "Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa." Nature Food 2.8 (August 2021): 603-615.
Diao, Xinshen, Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan, and Dani Rodrik. "Africa’s Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-018, July 2021.
Nedelkoska, Ljubica, Andre Assumpcao, Ana Grisanti, Matte Hartog, Julian Hinz, Jessie Lu, Daniela Muhaj, Eric Protzer, Annalee Saxenian, and Ricardo Hausmann. "The Role of the Diaspora in the Internationalization of the Colombian Economy." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, May 2021.
Masoud, Tarek, A.Kadir Yildirim, and Peter Mandaville. "Will the Pandemic Spark a Religious Revival in the Muslim World?" Washington Post. April 2, 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Eric Protzer, Jorge Tapia, and Ana Grisanti. "Economic Complexity Report for Western Australia." CID Working Paper Series, April 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Douglas Barrios, Ana Grisanti, Semiray Kasoolu, Tim O'Brien, Eric Protzer, Rushabh Sanghvi, Nikita Taniparti, and Jorge Tapia. "Growth Perspective on Western Australia." CID Working Paper Series, April 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Ana Grisanti, Douglas Barrios, Eric S. M. Protzer, Jorge Tapia, Nikita Taniparti, Rushabh Sanghvi, Semiray Kasoolu, and Tim O'Brien. "Western Australia – Research Findings and Policy Recommendations." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, April 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Miguel Ángel Santos, Jorge Tudela Pye, Yang Li, and Ana Grisanti. "Loreto’s Hidden Wealth: Economic Complexity Analysis and Productive Diversification Opportunities." CID Faculty Working Papers Series, March 2021.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Patricio Goldstein. "Economics of Covid-19 in three sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Namibia and South Africa." Shaping Africa's Post-Covid Recovery. Ed. Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, and Ugo Panizza. CEPR Press, 2021, 195-213.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Douglas Barrios, Daniela Muhaj, Sehar Noor, Carolina Pan, Miguel Angel Santos, Jorge Tapia, and Bruno Zuccolo. "Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-036, November 2020.
Rosengard, Jay K. "Success Factors in Tax Digitalization." United Nations Better Than Cash Alliance, October 2020.
Danielle F. Jung and Dara Kay Cohen. Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Kessi, Shose, Zoe Marks, and Elelwani Ramugondo. "Decolonizing African Studies." Critical African Studies 12.3 (September 2020): 271-282.
Rosengard, Jay K. Review of The Creation of the East Timorese Economy, Volume 2: Birth of a Nation, by Mats Lundahl and Fredrik Sjöholm. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 56.2, August 2020.
Marks, Zoe. "Cooking Soup and Killing Chickens: Navigating Gender and Food-as-Fieldwork in West Africa." Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science. Columbia University Press, 2020, 23-35.
Chen, Martha. "Introduction and Conclusion." The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. Ed. Chen, Martha and Francoise Carre. Routledge, 2020.
Chen, Martha. "WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Variables and Findings." The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. Ed. Chen, Martha and Francoise Carre. Routledge, 2020.
Masoud, Tarek. "Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East: Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation." Review of Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East: Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation, by A. Kadir Yildirim. Perspectives on Politics, 17.4, December 2019: 1223-1226.
Bai, Jie, and Jiahua Liu. "The Impact of Intranational Trade Barriers on Exports: Evidence from a Nationwide VAT Rebate Reform in China." December 2019.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "It’s Time for German Fiscal Expansion." Project Syndicate, September 30, 2019.
Arkedis, Jean, Jessica Creighton, Akshay Dixit, Archon Fung, Stephen Kosack, Dan Levy, and Courtney Tolmie. "Can Transparency and Accountability Programs Improve Health? Experimental Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-020, June 2019.
Alatas, Vivi, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi. "Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia." AEA Papers and Proceedings 109 (May 2019): 334-339.
Qiao, Qinyu, and Henry Lee. "The Role of Electric Vehicles in Decarbonizing China’s Transportation Sector." Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, April 2019.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Development Strategies Available to North Korea and Their Political Risks." North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War? Ed. William Overholt. Pacific Century Institute, 2019.
Perkins, Dwight H. "Measuring China’s Economic Reform Progress." China Economic Review 53 (February 2019): 342-350.
Bai, Jie, Seema Jayachandran, Edmund J. Malesky, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence From Vietnam." The Economic Journal 129.618 (February 2019): 651-677.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto. "Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia." Journal of Political Economy 127.1 (February 2019): 101-137.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The Euro’s First 20 Years." Project Syndicate, January 25, 2019.
Deep, Akash, Jungwook Kim and Minsoo Lee, eds. Realizing the Potential of PPPs to Advance Asia's Infrastructure Development. Asian Development Bank, 2019.
Campante, Filipe, and Edward L. Glaeser. "Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago." Latin American Economic Review 27.2 (December 2018).
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "One Fewer Reason to Be Nervous About the G-20 This Weekend." Bloomberg Opinion, November 29, 2018.