Roya Talibova, Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor of public policy, researches political violence and its effects on the political economy. With violence becoming more common in politics today ...

Harvard Kennedy School Associate Professor Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and former Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Miro Weinberger ...

At a panel organized by HKS’s Carr Center and Middle East Initiative, members of the Harvard community spoke about their ...

Logadóttir will discuss what drove her to run for President of Iceland, the challenges of competing with high-profile ...

The recent Center for Public Leadership Fellows Retreat was a transformative experience for our fellows, marked by engaging ...

There has been an increase in the number of hospital closures, like the recent Steward Healthcare bankruptcy, and that trend ...

“Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility.” Raj Chetty, Will Dobbie, Benjamin Goldman, Sonya R. Porter, Crystal S. Yang.

January 2021, Book: "Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets–among economists as well as many ordinary citizens–is a form of religion. And, it turns out, that in a ...

GrowthPolicy: What should we do about economic inequality? Jesse Fried: At the risk of speaking heresy, perhaps the answer is “nothing.” Clearly, America has many serious domestic problems, problems ...

November 2021, Paper: "We study a real small open economy with two key ingredients (1) partial segmentation of home and foreign bond markets and (2) a pecuniary externality that makes the real ...

September 23, 2020, Paper: "Debt and rent moratoria or deferrals, potentially subsidized by taxpayers, are among a range of policies that could help small businesses avoid unnecessary failures because ...

September 2020, Paper: "Many countries have launched industrial policy programs to improve their manufacturing competitiveness based on the idea that countries with larger trade surpluses or smaller ...