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

Kalt, Joseph P. "American Indian Self-Determination Through Self-Governance: The Only Policy That Has Ever Worked." Testimony before the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, December 15, 2022.
Kalt, Joseph P., Amy Besaw Medford, and Jonathan B. Taylor. "Economic and Social Impacts of Restrictions on the Applicability of Federal Indian Policies to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Research Report, December 2022.
Routel, Colette, Joseph Kalt, et al. "Brief for Indian Law and Policy Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner in United States v. Cooley." University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper, July 2022.
Henson, Eric C., Megan M. Hill, Miriam R. Jorgensen, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Recommendations for the Allocation and Administration of American Rescue Plan Act Funding for American Indian Tribal Governments." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-038, December 2021.
Henson, Eric C., Miriam R. Jorgensen, Joseph P. Kalt, and Isabelle G. Leonaitis. "Assessing the U.S. Treasury Department's Allocations of Funding for Tribal Governments under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-036, December 2021.
Akee, Randall K.Q., Eric C. Henson, Miriam R. Jorgensen, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Dissecting the US Treasury Department’s Round 1 Allocations of CARES Act COVID-19 Relief Funding for Tribal Governments." May 2020.
Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. "American Indian Self-Determination: The Political Economy of a Policy that Works." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-043, November 2010.
Kalt, Joseph P. "Toward a Comprehensive Indian Water Rights Settlement: Economic and Public Policy Analysis of the Proposed Western Navajo Pipeline and the Leupp-Dilkon and Ganado Groundwater Projects." Report for the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, March 6, 2009.
Baumol, William J., Colin Blaydon, Charles J. Cicchetti, Jeffrey A. Dubin, Franklin M. Fisher, Robert W. Hahn, Jerry A. Hausman, William W. Hogan, Joseph P. Kalt, et al. "Supreme Court Amicus Brief Regarding Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. v. Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series and AEI-Brookings Joint Center (RWP07-061 and Brief No. 07-02), December 2007.
Kalt, Joseph P. "Constitutional Rule and the Effective Governance of Native Nations." American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations. Ed. Eric D. Lemont. University of Texas Press, 2006.
Augustine, Charles, Joseph Cavicchi, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Competition & Regulation, Part III: Tensions Evolve Between Regulation and Competition." Electric Light & Power January/February 2006: 24-25.
Augustine, Charles, Joseph Cavicchi, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Gradualism in Retail Restructuring." Electric Light & Power September/October 2005: 26.
Augustine, Charles, Joseph Cavicchi, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Competition and Regulation in the Power Industry: Can the Two Coexist?" Electric Light & Power July/August 2005: 28.
Kalt, Joseph P. "Economics, Law and Politics: What Will Drive Energy's Future?" Annual Institute of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Vol 50-51, 2005.
Kalt, Joseph P., Leigh Gardner, and Katherine A. Spilde. "Annotated Bibliography: The Social and Economic Impacts of Indian and Other Gaming." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, January 2005.
Taylor, Jonathan B., and Joseph P. Kalt. "American Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic Change Between the 1990 and 200 Censuses." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, January 2005.
Cornell, Stephen, Miriam Jorgenson, Joseph P. Kalt, and Katherine A. Spilde. "Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs 2005-01, 2005.
Kalt, Joseph P., and Joseph William Singer. "Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian Self-Rule." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP04-016, March 2004.
Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Alaska Native Self-Government and Service Delivery: What Works?" KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP03-42, October 2003.
Kalt, Joseph P., Stephen Cornell, Miriam Jorgensen, and Katherine A Spilde. "Seizing the Future: Why Some Native Nations Do and Others Don't." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, October 2003.
Edlin, Aaron S, Joseph P. Kalt, A. Douglas Melamed, and Gary L. Roberts. "Roundtable: Recent Developments in Section 2." Antitrust Magazine Fall 2003: 15-25.
Kalt, Joseph P., and Stephen Cornell. "One Works, the Other Doesn't: Two Approaches to Economic Development on American Indian Reservations." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Working Paper, November 2002.
Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Lessons for the Middle East: Indians Take Control." Newsday, July 14, 2002: B05.
Kalt, Joseph P., Stephen Cornell, and Miriam Jorgenson. "The First Nations Governance Act: Implications of Research Findings from the United States and Canada." Report to the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, July 2002.
Kalt, Joseph P., Kenneth Grant, and Jonathan B. Taylor. “Public Policy Analysis of Indian Gaming in Massachusetts.” KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP02-019, May 2002.
Allred, Keith G., Kessely Hong, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Partisan Misperceptions and Conflict Escalation: Survey Evidence from a Tribal/Local Government Conflict." KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP02-013, March 2002.
Kalt, Joseph P., and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. "Native America at the New Millennium." Manuscript, February 2002.
Kalt, Joseph P., and Jonathan Tyler. "Means-Testing Indian Governments: Taxing What Works." Taking Sides: Race and Ethnicity. Ed. Richard C. Monk. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2001.