Browsing Harvard Kennedy School by Keyword "Public Policy Research"

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    • Making Room for China in the World Economy 

      Rodrik, Dani (American Economic Association, 2010)

    • Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care 

      Bynum, Julie P. W.; Fisher, Elliot S.; Yunjie, Song; Skinner, Jonathan; Chandra, Amitabh (American Public Health Association, 2010)
      BACKGROUND: Improving the health of minority patients who have diabetes depends in part on improving quality and reducing disparities in ambulatory care. It has been difficult to measure these components at the level of ...

    • Secular and Liminal: Discovering Heterogeneity among Religious Nones 

      Lim, Chaeyoon; MacGregor, Carol Ann; Putnam, Robert David (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
      This study examines the stability of religious preference among people who claim no religious preference in national surveys (i.e., religious nones). Using data from the Faith Matters Study, General Social Survey, and ...

    • Still Bowling Alone? The Post-9/11 Split 

      Sander, Thomas H.; Putnam, Robert David (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
      The crisis of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has sparked a surge of increased civic engagement by young people in the United States, but there is also evidence of a growing divide along class lines.

    • Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover 

      Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
      Much of the current debate about expanding health insurance coverage avoids addressing an uncomfortable trade-off: with a limited budget, making benefits more generous means being able to cover fewer people. Moreover, ...

    • Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates 

      Milkman, Katherine L.; Beshears, John Leonard; Choi, James J.; Laibson, David I.; Madrian, Brigitte (National Academy of Sciences, 2011)
      We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free ...