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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

Improving Outcomes in the Trust Game: The Games People Choose in Oman, the United States, and Vietnam

Bohnet, Iris, Benedikt Herrmann, Maliheh Paryavi, Ahn Tran, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Improving Outcomes in the Trust Game: The Games People Choose in Oman, the United States, and Vietnam." Trust in Social Dilemmas. Oxford University Press, 2017.

The Elasticity of Trust: How to Promote Trust in the Arab Middle East and the United States

Bohnet, Iris, Benedikt Herrmann, Mohamad Al-Ississ, Andrea Robbett, Khalid Al-Yahia, and Richard Zeckhauser. "The Elasticity of Trust: How to Promote Trust in the Arab Middle East and the United States." Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders: Enduring Challenges and Emerging Answers. Ed. Roderick M. Kramer and Todd L. Pittinsky. Oxford University Press, 2012, 151-169.

Experiments

Bohnet, Iris. Experiments. The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Ed. Peter Hedstrom and Peter Bearman. Oxford University Press, 2009, 639-666.

Fairness

Bohnet, Iris. Fairness. Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Ed. David Sander and Klaus Scherer. Oxford University Press, 2009, 179-180.

Trust in Experiments

Bohnet, Iris. "Trust in Experiments." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Ed. Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Why Women and Men Trust Others.

Bohnet, Iris. "Why Women and Men Trust Others." Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field. Ed. Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer. MIT Press, 2007, 89-110.

How Institutions Affect Behavior: Insights From Economics and Psychology.

Bohnet, Iris. "How Institutions Affect Behavior: Insights From Economics and Psychology." Social Psychology and Economics. Ed. David De Cremer, Marcel Zeelenberg, and Keith J. Murnighan. London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006, 213-238.

Instinct or Incentive to be Trustworthy? The Role of Informational Institutions.

Bohnet, Iris, Steffen Huck, and Jean-Robert Tyran. "Instinct or Incentive to be Trustworthy? The Role of Informational Institutions." Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie 21. Ed. Manfred J. Holler, et al. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2003, 213-221.

Does Performance Pay Perform? Conditions for Success in the Public Sector.

Bohnet, Iris, and Susan C. Eaton. "Does Performance Pay Perform? Conditions for Success in the Public Sector." For the People: Can We Fix Public Service? Ed. John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Brookings Institution, 2003, 238-254.

Pay for Performance: Motivation and Selection Effects.

Bohnet, Iris, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Pay for Performance: Motivation and Selection Effects." Successful Management by Motivation. Balancing Extrinsic and Intrinsic Incentives. Ed. Bruno Frey and Margit Osterloh. Springer, 2002, 119-139.

Fuhren heisst: Die Spielregeln bestimmen.

Bohnet, Iris. "Fuhren heisst: Die Spielregeln bestimmen." Fuhren lehren - Fuhren lernen. Ed. Eidgenossisches Personalamt. Eidgenossisches Personalamt, 2002, 53-57.