Mark Shepard, a Harvard Kennedy School expert, looks at the crossroads facing the American health insurance system, a patched ...

Why does states’ use of indiscriminate violence against civilians during civil wars weaken some insurgencies but strengthen others?

Manish Maheshwari MC/MPA Mason Fellow 2025 has witnessed firsthand the transformative power of technology—and the need to guide it responsibly. Second-year students share their experiences and helpful ...

February 2022, Paper: "We study how the recent run-up in housing and rental prices affects the outlook for inflation in the United States. Housing held down overall inflation in 2021. Despite record ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this webinar, three Palestinian leaders will share their stories and perspectives on fear and hope in Gaza and the West ...

November 2019, Paper, "Despite the rising use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings in financial markets, there is substantial disagreement across rating agencies regarding what ...

2021, Paper: "The last decade has seen an expo nential increase in corporate sus tainability activities and efforts by investors to use these activi ties in their portfolio formation, valuation, and ...

2021, Paper: "A large literature on state-business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to ...

September 2020, Paper: "Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that currently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their ...