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Tackling U.S. energy challenges and opportunities: preliminary policy recommendations for enhancing energy innovation in the United States
(2009)The incoming Obama Administration and the 111th Congress face enormous challenges and opportunities in tackling the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems posed by the energy sector in the United States ... -
The Tax Everyone Loves to Hate: Principle of Property Tax Reform
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)The dilemma is real and profound: most countries have a property tax, but few of their citizens like the tax. The property tax is the tax everyone loves to hate. Countries can seldom live with the tax as initially designed, ... -
Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs “investable” tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new ... -
Technical Uncertainty In Quantitative Policy Analysis
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Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture: The Role of Biotechnology
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012)Science and innovation have always been the key forces behind agricultural growth in particular and economic transformation in general. More specifically, the ability to add value to agricultural production via the ... -
Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-04)This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between ... -
Terrorist Nuclear Weapon Construction: How Difficult?
(SAGE Publications, 2006-09)<jats:p> The likelihood of a nuclear terrorist attack depends in part on the ability of terrorist groups to acquire, construct, and detonate a nuclear device. This article attempts to determine the difficulty of such an ... -
Text Messages as Mobilization Tools: The Conditional Effect of Habitual Voting and Election Salience
(Sage, 2011)Dale and Strauss’s (DS) noticeable reminder theory (NRT) of voter mobilization posits that mobilization efforts that are highly noticeable and salient to potential voters, even if impersonal, can be successful. In an ... -
The Market for Evaluations
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Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2024-03)Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents’ perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We find that thinking about parental ... -
This is How to Think about and Achieve Public Policy Success
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-05)Officials working on public policies must answer questions like ‘What does policy success mean?’ and ‘How should I pursue policy work in order to achieve success?’ These are difficult questions, but there are ways to ... -
Threat Perceptions and Drivers of Change in Nuclear Security Around the World: Results of a Survey
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2014)Leaders at the 2010 nuclear security summit agreed on the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear material in four years. This goal implied that many countries would change their nuclear security policies. But the factors ... -
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)We describe three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international global climate policy architecture: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated but meaningful ... -
To Batch or Not to Batch: Test-Ordering Variability in the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-11)Emergency Department (ED) patients may receive varying diagnostic workups and dispositions based on physician factors instead of solely based on presenting conditions. This study delves into the contrasting practices of ... -
Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces that Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of African Americans. The position that one takes often reflects ideological bias. ... -
Toward a General Theory of Boundary Work: Insights from the CGIAR’s Natural Resource Management Programs
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of “boundary work” through which research communities organize their ... -
Toward a Science of Sustainability
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)This report presents an overview of research horizons in sustainability science. Its motivation is to help harness science and technology to foster a transition toward sustainability – toward patterns of development that ... -
Towards a Structural View of Resilience
(IIASA, 1975-08)The result of resilience is persistence: the maintenance of certain characteristic behavioral properties in the face of stress, strain and surprise. But the origins of this resilient behavior lie in the structure of the ... -
Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We ...