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
Carlana, Michela, and Lucia Corno. "Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study." AEA Papers and Proceedings 114 (May 2024).
Lomachinsky Torres, Victor, Julianne D. Brooks, Maria A. Donahue, Deborah Blacker, Lee Schwamm, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Lidia M.V.R. Moura. "Patterns of Benzodiazepine Initiation Among Older Acute Ischemic Stroke Survivors (P1-10.006)." Neurology 102.17 Supplement 1 (April 9, 2024).
Taha, Mohamed, Mamoon Habib, Victor Lomachinsky Torres, Peter Hadar, Joseph Newhouse, Lee Schwamm, Deborah Blacker, and Lidia Maria Moura. "Evaluating the Concordance Between International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision Code, and Stroke Severity as Measured by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (P1-5.013)." Neurology 102.17 Supplement 1 (April 9, 2024).
Al-Karablieh, Yazan, Rema Hanna, and Rohini Pande. "Who benefits? Experimental evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance." Economics Letters (April 6, 2024).
Brooks, Arthur. "America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue." Journal of Democracy 35.2 (April 2024): 23-39.
Robb, Katharine, Ashley Marcoux, Eleanor Dickens, and Jorrit de Jong. "Tackling Persistent, Boundary-Spanning Problems Through Collaborative Innovation: Lessons From the Clean Sweep Initiative in Buffalo, NY." Administration & Society (March 28, 2024).
Bowles, Hannah Riley, Jens Mazei, and Heidi H. Liu. "“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership." Perspectives on Psychological Science (March 18, 2024).
Born, Dana, and Paula Caligiuri. "Leadership Perspective: Leaders’ Psychological Bravery." Journal of Character and Leadership Development 11.1 (Spring 2024): 62-65.
Chenoweth, Erica. "The Democratic Necessity of Reckoning." The Review of Politics 86.2 (Spring 2024): 238-241.
Vogel, Matthew, Rena M. Conti, and Amitabh Chandra. "Biopharma Venture Capital And The Inflation Reduction Act." Health Affairs Forefront (March 5, 2024).
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Michael Hankinson. "How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy." Political Behavior 46.1 (March 2024): 609-629.
Robb, Katharine, Rowana Ahmed, John Wong, Elissa Ladd, and Jorrit de Jong. "Substandard housing and the risk of COVID-19 infection and disease severity: A retrospective cohort study." SSM - Population Health 25 (March 2024): 101629.
Rodrik, Dani. "How to smooth US-China economic relations for the benefit of the global economy: A light model of global economic governance." Journal of Government and Economics 13 (Spring 2024).
Ma, Siyu, Yair Tauman, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Deterrence games and the disruption of information." International Journal of Game Theory 53 (March 2024): 261-287.
Grossman, Joshua, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, and Sharad Goel. "The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian American applicants." Scientific Reports 14 (2024).
Sullivan, Amy M., Margaret M. Hayes, Christine P. Beltran, Amy P. Cohen, Morgan Soffler, Suzanne Cooper, William Wisser, and Richard M. Schwartzstein. "Do we teach critical thinking? A mixed methods study of faculty and student perceptions of teaching and learning critical thinking at three professional schools." Medical Teacher (21 February 2024).
Jaywant, Abhishek, Faith M. Gunning, Lauren E. Oberlin, Mauricio Santillana, Katherine Ognyanova, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, David Lazer, and Roy H. Perlis. "Cognitive Symptoms of Post–COVID-19 Condition and Daily Functioning." JAMA Network Open 7.2 (February 2024): e2356098.
Gupta, Ravi, Jay Fein, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Aaron L. Schwartz. "Comparison of prior authorization across insurers: cross sectional evidence from Medicare Advantage." BMJ 384 (2024): e077797.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Investing in Long-Term Health." JAMA Forum 5.2 (February 2024): e240193.
Campanella, Edoardo, and John Haigh. "The Battle for the Internet." Survival 66.1 (2024): 69-84.
Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, David Cheng, Tej A. Patel1, Zhiyou Yang, John Hsu, Margarita Alegria, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Associations Between Annual Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Loss and Prescription Drug Spending and Use." JAMA Health Forum 5.2 (February 2024): e235152.
Abbiasov, Timur, Cate Heine, Sadegh Sabouri, Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Paolo Santi, Edward Glaeser, and Carlo Ratti. "The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data." Nature Human Behavior (5 February 2024).
Galinsky, Adam D., Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah R. Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin, and Joe C. Magee. "Are many sex/gender differences really power differences?" PNAS Nexus 3.2 (February 2024): pgae025.
Alsan, Marcella, and Sarah Eichmeyer. "Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16.1 (February 2024): 394-414.
Alsan, Marcella, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Heidi Williams. "Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials." Quarterly Journal of Economics 139.1 (February 2024): 575-635.
Bachas, Pierre, Anders Jensen, and Lucie Gadenne. "Tax Equity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." Journal of Economic Perspectives 38.1 (Winter 2024): 55-80.
Vogel, Matthew, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra, and Rena M. Conti. "Medicare price negotiation and pharmaceutical innovation following the Inflation Reduction Act." Nature Biotechnology (31 January 2024).
Norris, Pippa. "“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies." European Political Science (31 January 2024).
Hausmann, Ricardo, Ulrich Schetter, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. "On the design of effective sanctions: the case of bans on exports to russia." Economic Policy (22 January 2024).
Adger, William Neil, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos, and William C. Clark. "Migration and Sustainable Development." PNAS 121.3 (January 16, 2024): e2206193121.
Adger, William Neil, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos, and William C. Clark. "Scientific Frontiers on Migration and Sustainability." PNAS 121.3 (January 16, 2024): e2321325121.
Gray, Bradley M., Rebecca S. Lipner, Robert O. Roswell, Alicia Fernandez, Jonathan L Vandergrift, and Marcella Alsan. "Adoption of Internal Medicine Milestone Ratings and Changes in Bias Against Black, Latino, and Asian Internal Medicine Residents." Annals of Internal Medicine (January 2024): 70-82.
Clark, Chelsey S., Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Sean J. Westwood, Maya Sen, Neil Malhotra, and Stephen Jessee. "Effects of a US Supreme Court ruling to restrict abortion rights." Nature Human Behaviour 8.1 (January 2024): 63-71.
Orfanoudaki, Agni, Curtiss B. Cook, Soroush Saghafian, Janna Castro, Heidi E. Kosiorek, Harini A. Chakkera. "Diabetes mellitus and blood glucose variability increases the 30-day readmission rate after kidney transplantation." Clinical Transplantation 38.1 (January 2024): e15177.
Weyl, E Glen and Danielle Allen. "The Real Dangers of Generative AI." Journal of Democracy 35.1 (January 2024): 147-162.
McIntyre, Adrianna, Mark Shepard, and Timothy J. Layton. "Small Marketplace Premiums Pose Financial And Administrative Burdens: Evidence From Massachusetts, 2016–17." Health Affairs 43.1 (January 2024).
Norris, Pippa. "Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud." Parliamentary Affairs 77.1 (January 2024): 1-24.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "How International Relations Theory on Norm Cascades Can Inform the Politics of Climate Change." PS: Political Science & Politics 57.1 (January 2024): 36-39.
Doyle, Joseph, Marcella Alsan, Nicholas Skelley, Yutong Lu, and John Cawley. "Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial." JAMA Internal Medicine (December 26, 2023).
Gray, Bradley M., Rebecca S. Lipner, Robert O. Roswell, Alicia Fernandez, Jonathan L. Vandergrift, and Marcella Alsan. "Adoption of Internal Medicine Milestone Ratings and Changes in Bias Against Black, Latino, and Asian Internal Medicine Residents." Annals of Internal Medicine (December 26, 2023).
DellaVigna, Stefano, Woojin Kim, and Elizabeth Linos. "Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption." Journal of Political Economy (December 22, 2023).
Mansbridge, Jane. "The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis." International Political Science Review (December 21, 2023).
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Diana Da In Lee, Yamil R. Velez, and Christopher Warshaw. "American local government elections database." Scientific Data 10 (December 19, 2023).
Palmer, Maxwell, Benjamin Schneer, and Kevin DeLuca. "A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure." Political Analysis (December 13, 2023): 1-16.
Gaduh, Arya, Tilman Graff, Rema Hanna, Gabriel Kreindler, and Benjamin Olken. "Designing a public transit network: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia." VoxDev (December 6, 2023).
Kim, Hyunjin, Edward L. Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers, and Michael Luca. "Decision authority and the returns to algorithms." Strategic Management Journal (December 5, 2023).
Han, Hahrie, Andrea Louise Campbell, and Elizabeth McKenna. "Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy." Perspectives on Politics 21.4 (December 2023): 1432 -1446.
Hanson, Gordon, Pia Orrenius, and Madeline Zavodny. "US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 37.1 (Winter 2023): 199-222.
Moore, Molly, Charles A. Dorison, and Julia Minson. "The contingent reputational benefits of selective exposure to partisan information." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 152.12 (December 2023): 3490-3525.
Saghafian, Soroush, Lina Song, Joseph Newhouse, Mary Beth Landrum, and John Hsu. "The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery: Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices." Management Science 69.12 (December 2023): 7151-7882.