Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "SUP - Social and Urban Policy"

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    • American Indian Self-Determination: The Political Economy of a Policy that Works 

      Cornell, Stephen; Kalt, Joseph Peggs (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      Since the 1970s, federal American Indian policy in the United States has been aimed at promoting self-determination through self-governance by federally-recognized tribes. This policy has proven to be the only policy that ...

    • The Asset Cost of Poor Health 

      Poterba, James; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David Alsgaard (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of poor health, such as ...

    • Association between Income and the Hippocampus 

      Hanson, Jamie L.; Chandra, Amitabh; Wolfe, Barbara Elizabeth; Pollak, Seth D. (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Facets of the post-natal environment including the type and complexity of environmental stimuli, the quality of parenting behaviors, and the amount and type of stress experienced by a child affects brain and behavioral ...

    • Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces 

      Wilson, William Julius (American Federation of Teachers, 2011)

    • A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities 

      Campante, Filipe Robin; Do, Quoc-Anh (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2009)
      We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial ...

    • Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps? 

      Ganguli Prokopovych, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in ...

    • The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians 

      Borjas, George J.; Doran, Kirk (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of a large post-1992 influx ...

    • The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised 

      Wilson, William Julius (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011)
      I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978. Given the furor and controversy over the book immediately following its publication, I did not ...

    • Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats? 

      Andrews, Daniel; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew (2009)
      Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage ...

    • The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets 

      Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David Alsgaard (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      How households draw down the balances that they accumulate in retirement saving accounts such as 401(k) plans and Individual Retirement Accounts can have an important effect on the contribution of these accounts to retirement ...

    • Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems 

      Huckfeldt, Peter J; Sood, Neeraj; Escarce, Jose J; Grabowski, David C.; Newhouse, Joseph Paul (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards episode-based payment, affecting average and marginal reimbursement. We contrast the effects of two reforms for home ...

    • Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme 

      Levy, Dan; Ohls, Jim (Routledge, 2010)
      This paper summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash transfer programme implemented by the Government of Jamaica. We find that PATH was ...

    • Hard, Soft, or Tough Love: What Kinds of Organizational Culture Promote Successful Performance in Cross-Organizational Collaborations? 

      Kelman, Steven J.; Hong, Sounman (John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2012)
      One of the most-pervasive debates in literature on managing people is whether using “hard” or “soft” approaches produces better organizational performance -- those seeking to influence behavior by pressuring or by nurturing. ...

    • Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning 

      Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Zajonc, Tristan (2009)
      Learning persistence plays a central role in models of skill formation, estimates of education production functions, and evaluations of educational programs. In non-experimental settings, estimated impacts of educational ...

    • Informal Taxation 

      Olken, Benjamin A.; Singhal, Monica (American Economic Association, 2011)
      Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications ...

    • Informal Taxation 

      Olken, Benjamin A.; Singhal, Monica (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
      Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications ...

    • International Affairs and the Public Sphere 

      Walt, Stephen Martin (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems. There is today no shortage of global problems that social scientists should study in depth: ethnic and ...

    • Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities 

      Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; Seif, David G. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
      A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers currently perceive the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive. We estimate the effects ...

    • Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care 

      Bynum, Julie P. W.; Fisher, Elliot S.; Yunjie, Song; Skinner, Jonathan; Chandra, Amitabh (American Public Health Association, 2010)
      BACKGROUND: Improving the health of minority patients who have diabetes depends in part on improving quality and reducing disparities in ambulatory care. It has been difficult to measure these components at the level of ...

    • More Than Just Race: A Rejoinder 

      Wilson, William Julius (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)