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

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).
Borjas, George, and Daniel S. Hamermesh. "The Mismeasurement of Work Time: Implications for Wage Discrimination and Inequality." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2024.
Currier, Lindsey, Edward L. Glaeser, and Gabriel E. Kreindler. "Infrastructure Inequality: Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?" NBER Working Paper Series, December 2023.
Saich, Anthony, and Kunling Zhang. Institutional Change and Adaptive Efficiency: A Study of China's Hukou System Evolution. World Scientific, 2023.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Tim O’Brien, Andrés Fortunato, Alexia Lochmann, Kishan Shah, Lucila Venturi, Sheyla Enciso-Valdivia, Ekaterina Vashkinskaya, Ketan Ahuja, Bailey Klinger, Federico Sturzenegger, and Marcelo Tokman. "Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa." CID Faculty Working Paper Series, November 2023.
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, and Elizabeth Linos. "Improving delivery of the social safety net: The role of stigma." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (September 22, 2023).
Lasky-Fink, Jessica, and Elizabeth Linos. "Improving delivery of the social safety net: The role of stigma." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-022, November 2022.
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-009, July 2022.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Katherine Levine Einstein, and Maxwell Palmer. "Who Should Make Decisions? Public Perceptions of Democratic Inclusion in Housing Policy." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-016, June 2023.
Dynan, Karen, and Douglas Elmendorf. "Changes in Racial Gaps in Retirement Security over Time." June 2023.
Diodato, Dario, Ricardo Hausmann, and Frank Neffke. "The Impact of Return Migration on Employment and Wages in Mexican Cities." Journal of Urban Economics 135 (May 2023): 103557.
Mock, Rozalyn, Megan Willis-Jackson, Bobby Wang, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Linda Bilmes, and Brian Iammartino. "Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-006, January 2023.
Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, Alex McDowell, Andrew A. Nierenberg, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Benjamin Lê Cook. "Coverage Parity And Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Mental Health And Substance Use Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries." Health Affairs 42.1 (January 2023): 83-89.
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.
Kreider, Amanda R., Timothy J. Layton, Mark Shepard and Jacob Wallace. "Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices: Evidence from Medicaid." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-025, December 2022.
Sevtsuk, Andres, Rounaq Basu, Dylan Halpern, Anne Hudson, Kloe Ng, and Jorrit de Jong. "A tale of two Americas: Socio-economic mobility gaps within and across American cities before and during the pandemic." Cities 131 (December 2022): 104006.
Smith, Sandra Susan. "How Pretrial Incarceration Diminishes Individuals' Employment Prospects." Federal Probation 86.3 (December 2022): 11-18.
Linos, Elizabeth, Allen Prohofsky, Aparna Ramesh, Jesse Rothstein, and Matthew Unrath. "Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 14.4 (November 2022): 432-452.
Hanusehk, Eric A., Jacob D. Light, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, and Ludger Woessmann. "Long-run Trends in the U.S. SES—Achievement Gap." Education Finance and Policy 17.4 (Fall 2022): 608-640.
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cierra Robson. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-014, September 2022.
Fung, Vicki, Zhiyou Yang, Benjamin L. Cook, John Hsu, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Changes in Insurance Coverage Continuity After Affordable Care Act Expansion of Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults With Low Income in Massachusetts." JAMA Health Forum 3.7 (July 2022): e221996.
Zipperer, Ben, Celine McNicholas, Margaret Paydock, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "National survey of gig workers paints a picture of poor working conditions, low pay." Economic Policy Institute, June 2022.
Abrams, Leah R., Kristen Harknett, and Daniel Schneider. "Older Workers With Unpredictable Schedules: Implications for Well-Being and Job Retention." The Gerontologist (May 2022).
Glaeser, Edward L. "What can developing cities today learn from the urban past?" Regional Science and Urban Economics 94 (May 2022): 103698.
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Ulrich Schetter. "Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare." World Development 153 (May 2022): 105819.
Ferreras, Isabelle, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda. Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Amorim, Mariana, and Daniel Schneider. "Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers." Sociological Science 9.5 (April 2022): 102-135.
Chen, Jiafeng, Edward Glaeser, and David Wessel. "JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices." Journal of Urban Economics (April 1, 2022): 103451.
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.
Mayne, Quinton, and Alexia Katsanidou. "Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis." European Journal of Political Research (March 2022): 1-19.
Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq, Edward Miguel, Jason Abaluck, Amrita Ahuja, Marcella Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, et al. "End COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries." Science 375.6585 (March 11, 2022): 1105-1110.
Linos, Elizabeth, Vikash Reddy, and Jesse Rothstein. "Demystifying college costs: how nudges can and can't help." Behavioural Public Policy (March 2022): 1-22.
Chen, Martha, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Michael Rogan, Marcela Valdivia, Laura Alfers, Jenna Harvey, Ana Carolina Ogando, Sarah Orleans Reed, and Sally Roever. "COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities." International Labour Review 161.1 (March 2022): 29-58.
Herring, Christopher and Sandra Susan Smith. "The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation." Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Policy Brief, March 2022.
Yen, Julie, Julie Battilana, and Emilie Aguirre. "Sustainability for people and the planet: placing workers at the center of sustainability research." Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth. Ed. Gerard George, Martine Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita McGahan, and Paul Tracey. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2022, 189-214.
Jackson, Margot I. and Daniel Schneider. "Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents' Developmental Expenditures." American Sociological Review 87.1 (February 2022): 105-142.
Schneider, Daniel and Kristen Harknett. "What's to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection." Sociological Methods and Research 51.1 (February 2022): 108-140.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Sigrid Luhr. "Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules? Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements." Social Problems 69.1 (February 2022): 164-183.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, Evelyn Bellew, and Elaine Zundl. "Working in the Service Sector in Colorado." Shift Project Research Brief, February 2022.
Carlana, Michela, Eliana La Ferrara, and Paolo Pinotti. "Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children." Econometrica 90.1 (January 2022): 1-29.
Battilana, Julie, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras, and Lakshmi Ramarajan. "Democratizing Work: Redistributing power in organizations for a democratic and sustainable future." Organization Theory 3.1 (January-March 2022): 1-21.
Zundl, Elaine, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, and Evelyn Bellew. "Still Unstable: The Persistence of Schedule Uncertainty During the Pandemic." Shift Project Research Brief, January 2022.
Corona Maioli, Susanna, Jacqueline Bhabha, Kolitha Wickramage, Laura C N Wood, Ludivine Erragne, Omar Ortega García, Rochelle Burgess, Vasileia Digidiki, Robert W Aldridge, and Delan Devakumar. "International migration of unaccompanied minors: trends, health risks, and legal protection." The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 5.12 (December 2021): 882-895.
LaBriola, Joe and Daniel Schneider. "Class Inequality in Parental Childcare Time: Evidence from Synthetic Couples in the ATUS." Social Forces 100.2 (December 2021): 680-705.
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Irwin, Veronique. "Evaluating the Impacts of the Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance." Department of Labor, Labor Research and Evaluation Grants, December 2021.
Choper, Joshua, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the US Service Sector." Industrial & labor relations review (December 2021).
Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cathy Hu. "Exploring the Causal Mechanisms Linking Pretrial Detention and Future Penal System Involvement." Handbook on Pretrial Justice. Ed. Christine S. Scott-Hayward, Jennifer E. Copp, and Stephen Demuth. Routledge, 2022, 88-109.
Behrer, A.P., R.J. Park, G. Wagner, C.M. Golja, and David Keith. "Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas." Environmental Research Communications 3.9 (September 2021): 095001.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Caroline Elkins, and Margareta Matache, eds. Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Schneider, Daniel. "Unstable, unpredictable, and insufficient: Work scheduling in the service sector in New England." Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Community Development Issue Briefs, September 2021.