Powerful new techniques and a partisan environment are influencing congressional redistricting by Texas Republicans, Benjamin ...

Fifteen undergraduates from across the United States spent their summer on the Harvard Kennedy School campus for the second ...

Hawaiʻi faces one of the nation’s most severe housing crises, with more than 64,000 new homes needed by 2027. This summer, ...

Fifteen undergraduates from across the United States spent their summer on the Harvard Kennedy School campus for the second annual Junior Summer Institute (JSI@HKS) as JSI Summer Scholars.The fully ...

HKS talked with Nath about his research, his transition into higher education, and who he thinks is the Michael Jordan of ...

Using a novel panel data set of recent immigrants to the U.S. (2005–2007) from individual-level linked U.S. Census Bureau data and Internal Revenue Service records, we measure the impact of return ...

Belief in conspiracy theories has significant social and political consequences. While prior research has focused primarily on psychological predispositions as drivers of conspiracy beliefs, ...

Course Preview Days Schedule Fall 2025/January 2026 Tuesday, September 2 and Wednesday, September 3, 2025 AY26 Fall HKS Course Preview Days.xlsx (updated August 21, 2025) Canvas course site links will ...

The literature on taxation in developing countries has centered on the importance of third-party information for enforcement. Yet, while surely a long-run objective, leveraging such information ...

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 ...

April 2021, Paper: "Integrating risk assessment, economic evaluation, and uncertainty to inform policy decisions is a core challenge to risk analysis. In September 2019, the Harvard Center for Risk ...

June 1, 2021, Paper: "Since the Global Crisis, the size of central bank balance sheets has grown significantly. Traditional goals of price and financial stability are insufficient for assessing the ...