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Harvard Kennedy School provides perspective
Harvard researchers explore how the design of health insurance markets in the United States contributes to health inequities. In two recent papers, Professor Christopher Avery investigates the ...
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Leadership Decision Making (Online): Curriculum
Jennifer Lerner, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and Co-founder of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, leads this program in collaboration with other world-renowned Harvard faculty from a ...
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The policy change needed now to avoid a climate-driven global food crisis
Economist and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Wolfram Schlenker warns that reduced funding for agricultural research and ...
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Illiberal Playbooks: Preparing for Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights in the U.S.
Event Description: As advocates in the United States brace for attacks on LGBTQI+ rights from an emboldened anti-LGBTQI+ movement employing the illiberal playbook, it is crucial to learn from those ...
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong & How We Can Reboot
Join Jeremy Weinstein, Harvard Kennedy School Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, as he discusses his book ...
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Phillip Jones MPP/MBA 2021: Innovating city hall
ELECTION NIGHT 2022 was historic for the city of Newport News, Virginia. Phillip Jones MPP/MBA 2021 had become the city’s 27th and youngest directly elected mayor at 32 years old. Not only was Jones a ...
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A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates - Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers
November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world despite large buildups of government debt. As Table 1 ...
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The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy - Lawrence Summers
May 2020, Paper, "Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the ...
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Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses - Arie Arnon
2022, Book: "This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It ...
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US wages grew at fastest pace in decades in 2021, but prices grew even more - Jason Furman and Wilson Powell III
January 28, 2022, Opinion: "Over the last three months nominal wages and salaries for all civilian workers slowed slightly but still rose at a fast 4.4 percent annual rate, according to the newly ...
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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave: An Exploratory Study
January 2020, Paper, "Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these ...
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The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy - Meg Rithmire
2020, Paper, " The nature and extent of the role of the Chinese state in the economy is fundamental to many empirical and theoretical debates about that country’s political economy. We document and ...