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
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Stephen Hilgartner. "A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19." Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ed. Joelle Grogan, and Alice Donald. Routledge, 2022.
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
Carter, Ashton B. "The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines." Daedalus 151.2 (Spring 2022): 299-308.
Rodrik, Dani. "Prospects for global economic convergence under new technologies." An Inclusive Future? Technology, New Dynamics, And Policy Challenges. Ed. Zia Qureshi. Brookings Institute, May 2022, 65-82.
Dzansi, James, Anders Jensen, David Lagakos and Henry Telli. "Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-005, April 2022.
Holdren, John, Nina Fedoroff, Neal Lane, Nick Talbot, and Toby Spribille. "Let’s not abandon Russian scientists." Science, 376.6590, March 2022, 256-257.
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics. Ed. Katharine G. Abraham , Ron S. Jarmin , Brian C. Moyer and Matthew D. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press, 2022, 249-274.
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Marissa Gerchick, Sharad Goel, Aziz Z. Huq, Amy Shoemaker, Ravi Shroff, and Keniel Yao. "Identifying and Measuring Excessive and Discriminatory Policing." University of Chicago Law Review 89.2 (March 2022): 441-475.
Chohlas-Wood, Alex, Madison Coots, Henry Zhu, Emma Brunskill, and Sharad Goel. "Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making." February 2022.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "The End of Cyber-Anarchy?: How to Build a New Digital Order Digital Disorder." Foreign Affairs 101.1 (January/February 2022): 32-43.
DellaVigna, Stefano and Elizabeth Linos. "RCTs to scale: Comprehensive evidence from two nudge units." Econometrica 90.1 (January 2022): 81-116.
Eaves, David and Sechi Kailasa. "The 2021 Digital Services Convening." Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, January 2022.
Cook, Cody, Lindsey Currier, and Edward L. Glaeser. "Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2022.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Spaceship or Stewardship: Imaginaries of Sustainability in the Information Age." Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 47.4 (2022): 29-47.
Gordon, Sue, and Eric Rosenbach. "America's Cyber-Reckoning: How to Fix a Failing Strategy." Foreign Affairs 101.1 (January/February 2022): 10-21.
Moch, Jonathan M., William Xue, and John P. Holdren. "Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: Technologies and costs in the U.S. context." Environment and Natural Resources Program Brief Series, January 2022.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Knowledge for a just climate." Climatic Change 169 (December 2021): 36.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Abhishek Bhatia, and Sam Peisch. "Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures." Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
Lin, Zhiyuan Jerry, Hao Sheng, Sharad Goel. "Probability Paths and the Structure of Predictions over Time." Advances in Neural Information Processing System 34 (2021): 15098-15110.
Glaeser, Edward L., Karima Kourtit, and Peter Nijkamp. "New urban challenges: Shared spaces in smart places – Overview and positioning." Land Use Policy 111 (December 2021): 105672.
Allison, Graham, Kevin Klyman, Karina Barbesino and Hugo Yen. "The Great Tech Rivalry: China vs the U.S." Avoiding Great Power War Project Paper Series, December 2021.
Falco, Gregory J. and Eric Rosenbach. Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Mythmakers in the Market for Perfection." American Scientist 109.6 (November-December 2021): 376.
Nyarko, Julian, Sharad Goel, and Roseanna Sommers. "Breaking Taboos in Fair Machine Learning: An Experimental Study." EAAMO '21: Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021.
Hopp, Wallace, Jun Li, Soroush Saghafian, and Guihua Wang. "Employee Health Plans Powered by Analytics." Management and Business Review 1.3 (2021).
Avery, Christopher, Benjamin L. Castleman, Michael Hurwitz, Bridget Terry Long, Lindsay C. Page. "Digital messaging to improve college enrollment and success." Economics of Education Review 84 (October 2021).
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, Carly D. Robinson, Hedy Nai-Lin Chang, and Todd Rogers. "Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications: The Case of Truancy Notifications." Educational Researcher 50.7 (October 2021): 442-450.
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Hilton R. Simmet. "Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition." Energy Research & Social Science 80 (October 2021): 102205.
Goldsmith, Stephen, Betsy Gardner, and Jill Jamieson. "Toward a Better Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure - Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-023, September 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 T. Warner, Susan Wootton, and Esther Duflo. "Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial." Nature Medicine 27 (2021): 1622-1628.
Sevtsuk, Andres, Annie Hudson, Dylan Halpern, Rounaq Basu, Kloe Ng, and Jorrit de Jong. "The impact of COVID-19 on trips to urban amenities: Examining travel behavior changes in Somerville, MA." PLOS ONE 16.9 (September 2021): e0252794.
Price, Richard, and Kathryn Sikkink. Elements in International Relations. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Rosenbach, Eric, Juliette Kayyem, and Lara Mitra. "The Limits of Cyberoffense." Foreign Affairs. August 11, 2021.
Alsan, Marcella, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, Valentina Conti, Iván Mejía-Guevara, and Grant Miller. "Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Postwar Italy." Demography 58.4 (2021): 1473-1498.
Risse, Mathias. "Artificial Intelligence and the Past, Present, and Future of Democracy." Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 7/28/2021.
Torres Carlos, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Marcella Alsan, Fatima Cody Stanford, Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Sarah Eichmeyer, Mohit Karnani, Tristan Loisel, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Benjamin A. Olken, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, and Esther Duflo. "Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial." JAMA Network Open 4.7 (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.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Dangerous Appeal of Tech." MIT Technology Review 124.4 (July/August 2021): 16-17.
Dukes, Daniel, Kathryn Abrams, Ralph Adolphs, Mohammed E. Ahmed, Andrew Beatty, Kent C. Berridge, Jennifer S. Lerner, et al. "The rise of affectivism." Nature Human Behaviour 5 (June 2021): 816-820.
Cai, William, Josh Grossman, Zhiyuan Jerry Lin, Hao Sheng, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Joseph Jay Williams, and Sharad Goel. "Bandit algorithms to personalize educational chatbots." Machine Learning 110 (May 2021): 2389-2418.
Holdren, John P. "Settled enough: Climate science, skepticism, and prudence." The Hill, May 24, 2021.
Ang, Yu Qian, Andrew Chia, and Soroush Saghafian. "Using Machine Learning to Demystify Startups’ Funding, Post-Money Valuation, and Success." Innovative Technology at the Interface of Finance and Operations. Ed. Volodymyr Babich, John R. Birge, and Gilles Hilary. Springer, 11 May 2021, 271-296.
Goel, Sharad, Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Skeem, and Christopher Slobogin. "The accuracy, equity, and jurisprudence of criminal risk assessment." Research handbook on Big Data Law. Ed. Roland Vogl. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 9-28.
Ang, Yu Qian, Andrew Chia, and Soroush Saghafian. "Using Machine Learning to Demystify Startups’ Funding, Post-Money Valuation, and Success." Innovative Technology at the Interface of Finance and Operations. Ed. Volodymyr Babich, John R. Birge, and Hilary Gilles. Springer, Cham, 2022, 271-296.
Natali, Susan, John P. Holdren, Brendan M. Rogers, Rachael Treharne, Philip B. Duffy, Rafe Pomerance, and Erin MacDonald. "Permafrost carbon feedbacks threaten global climate goals." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.21 (May 2021): e2100163118.
Risse, Mathias. "Data as Collectively Generated Patterns: Making Sense of Data Ownership." Carr Center Discussion Paper Series, April 2021.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Practices of Objectivity in Regulatory Science." Social Knowledge in the Making. Ed. Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont. University of Chicago Press, 2021, 307-338.
Hagmann, David, Julia Minson, and Catherine H. Tinsley. "Personal Narratives Build Trust Across Ideological Divides." April 5, 2021.
Ippoliti, Roberto, Giovanni B. Ramello, and F.M. Scherer. "Partnership and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: the case of clinical research." Economics of Innovation and New Technology 30.3 (April 2021): 317-334.
Kerner, Catherine and Mathias Risse. "Beyond Porn and Discreditation: Epistemic Promises and Perils of Deepfake Technology in Digital Lifeworlds." Moral Philosophy and Politics 8.1 (2021): 81-108.
Beck, Silke, Sheila Jasanoff, Andy Stirling, and Christine Polzin. "The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49 (April 2021): 143-152.