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With the move to freeze foreign aid, the international development sector stands at a crossroads, HKS experts say
The Trump administration’s move to freeze U.S. foreign aid and development work is a seismic event. International development ...
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Anti-Corruption and Good Governance: Drivers of Peace, Security and Development
The session will discuss the role of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in supporting the implementation of the UN ...
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DOGE is putting the country’s data and computing infrastructure at risk, HKS expert argues
Before the Trump administration took office, what has become known as DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, was touted as a tool for injecting private sector efficiencies into the federal ...
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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The Coming Rise in Residential Inflation - Lawrence Summers
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 ...
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Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement - George Serafeim
May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...
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Can Trade Work for Workers? - Gordon Hanson
May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other ...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Low Interest Rates - N. Gregory Mankiw
December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...
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What Does Bidenomics Look Like? Jason Furman
December 2, 2020, Audio: "In Washington, personnel is policy. The people President-elect Joe Biden has picked to run economic policy can tell us a lot about what we might expect from the next ...
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The Century-Long Fight to Close the Gender Pay Gap - Claudia Goldin
October 6, 2021, Video: "According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women still make 82 cents for every dollar earned by a man. The gap is even wider for women of color. Black women were paid 63% of ...
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Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring? - Elhanan Helpman
September 27, 2021, Paper: "Supply chain disruptions, which have become commonplace, are often associated with glob alization and trade. Little is known about optimal policy in the face of insecure ...
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Understanding Tax Policy: How do People Reason? - Stefanie Stantcheva
September 3, 2021, Paper: "I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale social economics surveys issued to ...