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    • Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark 

      Norris, Pippa (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 ...

    • Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants 

      Borjas, George; Edo, Anthony (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-07)
      In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all ...

    • Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World’s Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta 

      Kreindler, Gabriel; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A. (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-06)
      Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend on ...

    • Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers? 

      Deming, David (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-06)
      The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that growth in the college wage premium is ...

    • Dollar Rivals 

      Frankel, Jeffrey (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-06)
      Written for a PIIE conference on the 50th anniversary of floating exchange rates, this paper deals with possible alternatives to a unipolar dollar-based system. It considers (1) measures of international currency use; (2) ...

    • Who Should Make Decisions? Public Perceptions of Democratic Inclusion in Housing Policy 

      de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin; Einstein, Katherine Levine; Palmer, Maxwell (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-06)
      Who deserves to participate in local democracy? A wide body of research shows that property owners are deeply overrepresented in local political proceedings, especially those related to housing and land use. We know little, ...

    • Vertical Patient Streaming in Emergency Departments 

      Feizi, Arshya; Orfanoudaki, Agni; Saghafian, Soroush; Hodgson, Nicole (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-05)
      Addressing hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a critical challenge for many healthcare systems worldwide. Many hospitals (including our partner hospital) have been experimenting with innovative patient flow ...

    • A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions 

      Gulesci, Selim; Jindani, Sam; La Ferrara, Eliana; Smerdon, David; Sulaiman, Munshi; Young, H. Peyton (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-04)
      We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate the first “step”, it may also become a new ...

    • On Productivism 

      Rodrik, Dani (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-03)
      We are today in the midst of a transition away from what has come to be called “neoliberalism,” with much uncertainty about what will replace it. We might approach the absence of a solidified new paradigm with mixed feelings. ...

    • Multidimensional Human Capital and the Wage Structure 

      Deming, David (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-03)
      This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage structure pioneered by Tinbergen (1975) ...

    • Setting new standards of leadership 

      Born, Dana (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-02)
      “I need ammunition, not a ride.” With those six words one year ago, President Zelenskyy galvanized his country and riveted the world’s attention on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    • What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed? 

      Yemiscigil, Ayse; Born, Dana; Ling, Horace (2023-02)
      Leadership development is a massive industry. But do these programs actually pay off for the leaders who participate in them? Through a series of experiments, surveys, and analyses of data from more than a thousand ...

    • Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange 

      Shepard, Mark; Wagner, Myles (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)
      Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an ...

    • The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries 

      Gaduh, Arya; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)
      Concerns about fraud in welfare programs are common arguments worldwide against such programs. We conducted a survey experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in Indonesia to ...

    • Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education 

      Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Khwaja, Asim (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)
      We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program ...

    • The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment 

      Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; Kim, Minjeong Joyce; Stantcheva, Stefanie; Yang, David Y (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)
      Concerns have been raised about the “demise of democracy”, possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment involving 8,206 respondents from five Western democracies, we find that subjects ...

    • Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor? 

      Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh; Shepard, Mark (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)
      The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market ...

    • Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies 

      Hanson, Gordon (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)
      Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity, to power vehicles, and to manufacture the stuff of everyday life ...

    • Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective Housing Policy in Greater Boston? Evidence from Lynn and Revere 

      Mock, Rozalyn; Willis-Jackson, Megan; Wang, Robert; de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin; Bilmes, Linda; Iammartino, Brian (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 ...

    • Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock 

      Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon (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 ...