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Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)Housing costs across the nation and in Greater Boston are rising, and many policymakers have turned to Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in an attempt to dampen these effects on their lowest-income residents. Yet design and ... -
Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis
(Elsevier, 2012)This paper investigates whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008-09 financial crisis. Rather than looking for indicators with specific relevance to the current crisis, the selection ... -
Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)This paper investigates whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008-09 financial crisis. Rather than looking for indicators with specific relevance to the current crisis, the selection ... -
Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education?
(2016)Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research has focused on comparing student performance across online and inperson formats. We provide the first ... -
Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016)The Federal government has spent billions of dollars to support turnarounds of low-achieving schools, yet most evidence on the impact of such turnarounds comes from high-profile, exceptional settings and not from examples ... -
Can we test geoengineering?
(Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2011)Solar radiation management (SRM), a form of geoengineering, might be used to offset some fraction of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change, but the risks and effectiveness of ... -
Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-07)There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship from intolerant zealots involving ‘woke wars’ and a ‘cancel culture’ pitting the ... -
Cancel the Plutonium Fuel Factory
Twenty years ago, in the Clinton Administration, both of us helped launch a program to build a factory to turn the excess plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear reactors. At that time, the full ... -
The CAPS Prediction System and Stock Market Returns
(2009)We analyze the informational content of more than 1.2 million stock picks provided by more than 60,000 individuals from November 1, 2006 to October 31, 2007 on the CAPS open access website created by the Motley Fool company ... -
The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)We study the predictive power of approximately 2.5 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the Motley Fool company (www.caps.fool.com). These picks prove to be surprisingly informative ... -
The Carbon-Dioxide Review
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The Case for Mass Treatment of Intestinal Helminths in Endemic Areas
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Two articles published earlier this year in the International Journal of Epidemiology [1,2] have re-ignited the debate over the World Health Organization’s long-held recommendation of mass-treatment of intestinal helminths ... -
A Case of Forest Ecosystem Pest Management
(International Canadian Conference on Applied Systems Analysis, 1975)The boreal forests of North America have, for centuries, experienced periodic outbreaks of a defoliating insect called the Spruce Budworm. In anyone outbreak cycle a major proportion of the mature softwood forest in effected ... -
Causes of the Financial Crisis: Many Responsible Parties
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2010)This analysis argues that blame for the financial crisis falls specifically and heavily on a broad range of the private players and public regulators in our financial sector. Wall Street and the government joined hands in ... -
A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2009)We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial ... -
“The Challenge of Change”: Edward Brooke, The Republican Party, and the Struggle for Redemption
(Informa UK Limited, 2011)This essay is an exploration of the political rise of politician Edward W. Brooke and his impact on the Republican Party and the black community throughout the 1960s. I argue that Brooke's role in American political and ... -
China, the USA, and Asia’s Future
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012)The relationship between the US and China is at the core of both economic and geopolitical trends that will define the future of Asia in this century. China’s economic rise and its more assertive diplomacy have created a ... -
China-Russia Relations: Same Bed, Different Dreams? Why Converging Interests Are Unlikely to Lead to a Full-Fledged Alliance
(Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2018-06)Well before the crisis in Ukraine reinforced Russia’s pursuit of closer ties with China, Moscow had been forging an increasingly cooperative relationship with Beijing. This is hardly surprising considering that China in ... -
Civil Society, Public Action and Accountability in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2011)This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development Report 2004 on ...