David T. Ellwood is the Isabelle and Scott Black Research Professor of Political Economy. He served as Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2015. He joined ...

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a 6-3 vote. Almost half a century ago, the Roe v. Wade ruling was the basis for establishing a constitutional right to ...

This webinar is hosted by Professor Jim Honan, faculty chair of the Harvard Kennedy School executive education program Nonprofit Management and Leadership: Strategies for Organizational Success.

Whether you complete a program on our historic Cambridge campus or through the flexibility of an online offering, your immersive learning experience at Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education will ...

See citation below for complete author information. We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into ...

The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth ...

Marcella Alsan & Arkey M. Barnett & Peter Hull & Crystal Yang, 2024. “‘Something Works” in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program," NBER Working Papers 32282, National ...

We are committed to distributing as much financial assistance as possible to our talented students; however, our institutional resources are limited. During the 2025-2026 academic year, approximately ...

This paper argues that historical analysis, necessarily written with hindsight, often underestimates the uncertainties of the past. We call this tendency explanation bias. This bias leads individuals ...

2021, Paper: "In this paper, we quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to ...

Dam, Rob van, Frank Hu and Walter Willett. 2020. Coffee, Caffeine, and Health. The New England Journal of Medicine 383, no. 4 (July): 369-378.

December 9, 2020, Paper: "The reordering of transactions from “high-to-low” is a controversial bank practice thought to maximize fees paid by low-income customers on overdrawn accounts. We exploit ...