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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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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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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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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 is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru
2020, Paper, "In emerging markets, a significant share of corporate loans are denominated in dollars. Using novel data that enables us to see currency and the cost of credit, in addition to several ...
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Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-wing Populism - Dani Rodrik
July 2020, Paper, "There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, ...
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High Frequency Data and a Weekly Economic Index during the Pandemic - James Stock
December 2020, Paper: "This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus ...
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Tarun Khanna on the jobs of the future, how entrepreneurs can build trust, and institutional voids
March 2019. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard ...
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A Brief History of Default - Edwin Truman
Noevember 2021, Opinion: "Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener present a valuable, detailed account of the evolution of public debt instruments and institutions ...