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
Sun, Shuo, Victor Lomachinsky, Louisa H. Smith, Joseph P. Newhouse, M. Brandon Westover, Deborah Blacker, Lee Schwamm, Sebastien Haneuse, Lidia M.V.R. Moura. "Benzodiazepine Initiation and the Risk of Falls or Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults Following Acute Ischemic Stroke." February 6, 2024.
Shepard, Mark, and Myles Wagner. "Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment." August 23, 2023.
Coots, Madison, Soroush Saghafian, David Kent, and Sharad Goel. "Reevaluating the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Diabetes Screening." June 2023.
Baum, Matthew A., James Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, and Jonathan Schulman. "Severe Depressive Symptoms Exacerbate the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Voting for Election Doubters." IPR Working Paper Series, June 12, 2023.
Muhammad, Khalil, and Angel Cardo Rodriguez. "Antiracist Institutional Change in Healthcare." Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, Ash Center for Democratic Governanance and Innovation, March 2023.
Taylor, Charles A. "Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-run Adaptation and its Externalities." March 2023.
Chandra, Amitabh, Maurice Dalton, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Are Hospital Quality Indicators Causal?" NBER Working Paper Series, October 2023.
Fisher, Elliott S., David C. Goodman, and Amitabh Chandra. "Regional and Racial Variation in Health Care among Medicare Beneficiaries: A Brief Report of the Dartmouth Atlas Project." The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon (NH), December 2022.
Safarpour, Alauna, and Matthew Baum. "Pandemic, Governors, and Public Opinion: The Effect of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths on Public Support for America’s Governors." October 13, 2022.
Taylor, Charles A., Christopher Boulos, and Matthew J. Memoli. "The 1968 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 Outcomes." September 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.
Radford, Jason, Jon Green, Alexi Quintana, Alauna Safarpour, Matthew D Simonson, Matthew Baum, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, James Druckman, Roy Perlis, Mauricio Santillana, and John Della Volpe. "Evaluating the generalizability of the COVID States survey — a large-scale, non-probability survey." March 7, 2022.
Safarpour, Alauna, Alexi Quintana, David Lazer, Roy Perlis, Matthew Baum, Katherine Ognyanova, Anjuli Shere, et al. "The COVID States Project #78: American mask use and CDC guidance." The COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public's Policy Preferences Across States, January 15, 2022.
Trujillo, Kristin L., Matthew Baum, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, James Druckman, Roy Perlis, Mauricio Santillana, et al. "The COVID States Project #77: Healthcare workers' perception of COVID-19 misinformation." The COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public's Policy Preferences Across States, January 13, 2022.
Shepard, Mark, and Ethan Forsgren. "Do Insurers Respond to Active Purchasing? Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange." October 15, 2021.
Borjas, George, and Hugh Cassidy. "The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic." August 2021.
Baum, Matthew A., James Druckman, Matthew D Simonson, Jennifer Lin, and Roy Perlis. "What I Saw on the Road to Insurrection: Internal Political Efficacy, Conspiracy Beliefs and the Effect of Depression on Support for the January 6th Storming of the Capitol." July 2021.
Breza, Emily, Fatima Cody Stanford, Marcella Alsan, Burak Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Sarah Eichmeyer, Traci Glushko, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Mohit Karnani, Sarah Liegl, Tristan Loisel, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, Susan Wootton, and Esther Duflo. "Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial." NBER Working Paper Series, July 2021.
Furman, Jason, Melissa S. Kearney, and Wilson Powell. "The role of childcare challenges in the US jobs market recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic." NBER Working Paper Series, June 2021.
Perlis, Roy H., Mauricio Santillana, Katherine Ognyanova, Jon Green, James Druckman, David Lazer, and Matthew A. Baum. "Comparison of post-COVID depression and major depressive disorder." MedRxiv (2021).
Reinhart, Carmen. "From Health Crisis to Financial Distress." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, April 2021.
Perlis, Roy H., Jon Green, Mauricio Santillana, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew Simonson, Matthew A. Baum et al. "Persistence of symptoms up to 10 months following acute COVID-19 illness." MedRxiv (2021).
Alsan, Marcella, and Sarah Eichmeyer. "Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2021.
Oliver Harman, Anders Jensen, Farria Naeem, Moussa Saab, Shahrukh Wani, and Nick Wilkinson. "Covid-19 and taxes: policies for the post-pandemic recovery." International Growth Centre Policy Briefs, January 2021.
Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Adam Sacarny. "Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 28018, October 2020.
Taylor, Charles A. "Cicadian Rhythm: Insecticides, Infant Health and Long-term Outcomes." CEEP Working Paper Series, September 2020.
Chandra, Amitabh,Courtney Coile, and Corina Mommaerts. "What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer’s Disease?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 27760, August 2020.
Banerjee, Abhijit, Marcella Alsan, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Abhijit Chowdhury, Esther Duflo, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, and Benjamin A. Olken. "Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-recipient Members of Their Communities." National Bureau of Economics Research, August 2020.
Bartik, Alexander W., Zoe B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher T. Stanton, and Adi Sunderam. "The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses." National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020.
Glaeser, Edward L., Caitlin S. Gorback, and Stephen J. Redding. "How Much Does COVID-19 Increase With Mobility? Evidence From New York and Four Other US Cities." National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Ulrich Schetter. "Horrible Trade-offs in a Pandemic: Lockdowns, Transfers, Fiscal Space, and Compliance." July 2020.
Bartik, Alexander W., Zoe B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher T. Stanton. "What Jobs Are Being Done at Home During the COVID-19 Crisis? Evidence From Firm-Level Surveys." National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2020.
Aspelund, Karl M., Michael Droste, James H. Stock, and Christopher D. Walker. "Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland." June 2020.
Stock, James H. "Reopening the Coronavirus-Closed Economy." Hutchins Center, 2020.
Sedas, Ana Cristina, Mercedes Aguerrebere, Luis Alberto Martinez Juarez, Luis Eduardo Zavala-deAlba, Itzel Eguiluz, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "Situational Brief: Transit Migration in Mexico During the COVID-19 Pandemic." May 2020.
Holdren, John P., Christine Cassel, Chris Chyba, Susan Graham, Eric Lander, Ed Penhoet, William Press, Maxine Savitz, and Harold Varmus. "Recommendations for the National Strategic Pandemic Stockpile." May 2020.
Allison, Graham. "Coronavirus as a Strategic Challenge: Has Washington Misdiagnosed the Problem?" April 2020.
Stock, James H. "Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus." National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2020.
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.
Moore, Gaylen, Jorrit de Jong, Kimberlyn Leary, and Christopher Robichaud. "Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia." 2020.
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.
Alsan, Marcella, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, Valentina Conti, Iván Mejía-Guevara, Grant Miller. "Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy." February 2019.
Frank, Richard G., and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "High-Priced Drugs in Medicare Part D: Diagnosis and Potential Prescription." January 2018.
Zhang, Siwen, Hua Chen, Songyu Zhu, Jorrit de Jong, and Guy Stuart. "HIV/AIDS Prevention on Southern China’s Road Projects: A Case of Embedded Education." January 2017.
Zhang, Siwen, Hua Chen, Songyu Zhu, Jorrit de Jong, and Guy Stuart. "Health Education in China's Factories: A Case of Embedded Education." January 2017.
Wilson, Deloris, Linda Kaboolian, Jorrit de Jong, and Guy Stuart. "Barbershops and Preventative Health: A Case of Embedded Education." January 2017.
Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, and Austin Frakt. "Correcting Signals for Innovation in Health Care." Hamilton Project, October, 2015.