Economist and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Wolfram Schlenker warns that reduced funding for agricultural research and ...

The Women and Public Policy Program’s faculty, research fellows, and students are committed to advancing women and gender equity globally. Through rigorous research, we offer gender insights into work ...

Age, gender, and lifestyle are key factors in predicting risks for illnesses like cancer and heart disease, but adding race ...

Manish Maheshwari MC/MPA Mason Fellow 2025 has witnessed firsthand the transformative power of technology—and the need to ...

Although integrating climate and development goals may seem advantageous, there are critical trade-offs that suggest ...

Nicholas Burns, who until recently served as the United States ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, will rejoin the ...

In this talk, Dr. Wen Shan (Vivien) will present her research on the cultural impact on gender bias in job descriptions. The talk delves into how cultural values influence the use of gendered language ...

The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy welcomes Professor Kevin Young (UMass Amherst) to ...

Harvard Kennedy School is proud of its energetic involvement in the world. To better understand how to solve public problems by improving policy and leadership, we engage directly with policymakers, ...

June 2024, Paper: "Beaudry, Hou, and Portier (hereafter BHP) have written an excellent and provocative paper. Rather than attempt to comment on each element of the analysis, I will focus my discussion ...

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, the French aristocrat and political scientist who observed American culture in the early 1830s, saw local newspapers as the lifeblood of civic participation in the United States ...

THE IDEA THAT TRANSPARENCY can make institutions more effective and provide greater accountability and better results for the public seems uncontroversial on the surface. But scholars and officials ...