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 ...

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 Canvas course site links will be added to the schedule ...

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 ...

The Trump Administration seeks to end the 'endangerment finding' that has enabled controls on greenhouse gases and fossil ...

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In this webinar, panelists will share strategies for responsibly covering misinformation without amplifying it and show real ...