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

Glaeser, Edward L. "Schools Buy Technology, But is it the Right Kind?" Boston Globe, November 18, 2011.
Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan. "How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star." Quarterly Journal of Economics 126.4 (November 2011): 1593-1660.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Republicans Must Embrace Education, Not Tax Cuts." Bloomberg, October 24, 2011.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Harvard Must Remain Bold in a Changing World." Boston Globe, October 15, 2011.
Peterson, Paul E. "A Blue State Bailout In Disguise." Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2011.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Sciences Still Young." Harvard Magazine, September 2011.
Dumitrescu, Anca, Dan Levy, Cara Orfield and Matt Sloan. "Impact Evaluation of Niger’s IMAGINE Program." Mathematica Policy Research, September 2011.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Unleash the Entrepreneurs." City Journal, 21.4, Fall 2011.
Borjas, George J, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon H. Hanson. "Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups." NBER Working Papers 17461, September 2011.
Peterson, Paul E., and Eric A. Hanushek. "Why Can't American Students Compete?" Daily Beast, August 28, 2011.
Walt, Stephen. "International Affairs and the Public Sphere." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP11-030, August 2011.
Peterson, Paul E. "Do We Really Need to Spend More on Schools?" Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2011.
Dobbie, Will and Roland Fryer. "Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3.3 (July 2011): 158-187.
Chingosa, Matthew M., and Paul E. Peterson. "It’s Easier to Pick a Good Teacher than to Train One: Familiar and New Results on the Correlates of Teacher Effectiveness." Economics of Education Review 30.3 (June 2011): 449-465.
Quane, James M., and William Julius Wilson. "All Together Now, One By One: Building Capacity for Urban Education Reform in Promise Neighborhoods." Pathways. Summer 2011.
Borjas, George. "Social Security Eligibility and the Labor Supply of Older Immigrants." Industrial & Labor Relations Review 64.3 (April 2011): 485-501.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Tim Glynn Burke. "Ignore Citizens and Invite Failure." National Civic Review 100.1 (Spring 2011): 14-18.
Wilson, William Julius. "Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces." American Educator 35.1 (Spring 2011): 10-46.
Ferguson, Ronald. "How Students’ Views Predict Graduation Outcomes and Reveal Instructional Disparities under Children First Reforms." Education Reform in New York City: Ambitious Change in the Nation's Most Complex School System. Ed. O’Day, Jennifer A., Catherine S. Bitter, and Louis M. Gomez. Harvard Education Press, 2011, 225-254.
Ferguson, Ronald. "Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Teens and Young Adults for the 21st Century." Pathways to Prosperity Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education, February 2011.
Luttmer, Erzo F. P., and Monica Singhal. "Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 3.1 (February 2011): 157-179.
Borjas, George. "Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration." Journal of Labor Economics 29.1 (January 2011): 69-113.
Hanushek, Eric A., Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann. "Teaching Math to the Talented." Education Next 11.1 (Winter 2011): 10-18.
Howell, William, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin West. "Meeting of the Minds." Education Next.org 11.1 (Winter 2011).
Avery, Christopher, and Jonathan Levin. "Early Admissions at Selective Colleges." American Economic Review 100.5 (December 2010): 2125–56.
Matthew M. Chingos, and Paul E. Peterson. "It’s Easier to Pick a Good Teacher than to Train One: Familiar and New Results on the Correlates of Teacher Effectiveness." Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Paper Series, PEPG 10-22, December 2010.
Ferguson, Ronald. "Racial Tensions and Teacher Engagement in Professional Learning." Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Design (MASCD) Perspectives Online. Winter 2010.
Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan. "$320,000 Kindergarten Teachers." Phi Delta Kappan 92.3 (November 2010): 22-25.
Hanushek, Eric A., Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann. "U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-achieving Students?" Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Paper Series, PEPG 10-19, November 2010.
Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan. "How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR." NBER Working Papers 16381, September 2010.
Peterson, Paul E. and Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón. "State Standards Rise in Reading, Fall in Math." Education Next 10.4 (Fall 2010): 12-16.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education, ed. Caragh Brosnan and Bryan S. Turner. Contemporary Sociology, 39.5, September 2010: 556-557.
Peterson, Paul E., and Martin R. West. "African-Americans for Charter Schools." Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2010.
Aydemir, Abdurrahman, and George J. Borjas. "Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration." NBER Working Papers16229, July 2010.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "A Field of Its Own: The Emergence of Science and Technology Studies." Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. Ed. Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, and Carl Mitcham. Oxford University Press, 2010, 191-205.
Fang, Hai, Karen N. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China." Vox. June 5, 2010.
Glaeser, Edward L, Giacomo Ponzetto, and Kristina Tobio. "The Varieties of Regional Change." Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Economics Working Papers 1255, June 2010.
Peterson, Paul E. "Let the Charters Bloom." Hoover Digest: Research and Opinion on Public Policy. Summer 2010.
Ferguson, Ronald F., Sandra Hackman, Robert Hanna, and Ann Ballantine. "How High Schools Become Exemplary." AGI Conference Report, June 1, 2010.

Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran, and Rohini Pande. "Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India." American Economic Review 100.2 (May 2010): 125–29.

Peterson, Paul E. "Finding the Student's 'Price Point'." Education Week, April 20, 2010.
Fang, Hai, Karen N. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-011 and NBER Working Papers 15886, March 2010.
Peterson, Paul E. "Charter Schools and Student Performance." Wall Street Journal. March 16, 2010.
Peterson, Paul E. Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning. Harvard University Press, 2010.
Greene, Jay, Tom Loveless, W. Bentley MacLeod, Thomas Nechyba, Paul E. Peterson, Meredith Rosenthal, and Grover Whitehurst. "Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education." Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings, February 2010.
Goodman, Joshua. "Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts." Education Finance and Policy 5.1 (Winter 2010): 36-53.
Ferguson, Ronald. "Racial Tensions and Teacher Engagement in Professional Learning." Perspectives (Winter 2010): 12-16.
Pritchett, Lant. The Policy Irrelevance of the Economics of Education: Is 'Normative as Positive' Useless, or Worse? What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small. Ed. William Easterly and Jessica Cohen. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 130-165.
Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das, and Asim Khwaja. "What Did You Do All Day? Maternal Education and Child Outcomes." The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper Series 5143 and Social Sciences Research Network Paper, November 2009.
Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and Tristan Zajonc. "Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-034, October 2009.