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Leemore Dafny elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine, one of the most prestigious honors in the medical and public health ...
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Is it possible to create meaningful policy in times marked by division?
Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics hosted a recent conversation that focused on a key public policy issue: how to ...
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Motivation and Purpose in the Public Sector
In this book talk, Elizabeth Linos will engage in a conversation with Dan Honig on the topic of motivation and purpose in the ...
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HKS resources for understanding the 2024 U.S. presidential election
Harvard Kennedy School has collected resources to help you navigate this consequential 2024 U.S. presidential election season ...
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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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A Theory of Foreign Exchange Interventions - Ludwig Straub
November 2021, Paper: "We study a real small open economy with two key ingredients (1) partial segmentation of home and foreign bond markets and (2) a pecuniary externality that makes the real ...
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - Benjamin Friedman
January 2021, Book: "Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets–among economists as well as many ordinary citizens–is a form of religion. And, it turns out, that in a ...
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Borders of Prosperity: Immigration's Impact on the U.S. Economy
November 30, 2023, Video: "The role of immigration in shaping the nation's economy remains a hotly contested area of debate. Factors such as the real economic benefits of high-skilled versus ...
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Trade Surplus or Deficit? Neither Matters for Changes in Manufacturing Employment Shares - Robert Lawrence
September 2020, Paper: "Many countries have launched industrial policy programs to improve their manufacturing competitiveness based on the idea that countries with larger trade surpluses or smaller ...
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Crypto, DeFi, and Monetary Policy - Marco Di Maggio
December 9, 2021, Video: "Of all of the possible disruptive uses of cryptocurrency and blockchain, decentralized finance (or DeFi) might be the one most likely to bring this technology to a wider ...
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Senior diplomat Wendy Sherman knows the foreign policy stakes are high for the 2024 election
Wendy Sherman, former deputy secretary of state, and current fellow with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science ...
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Medical Debt in the US, 2009-2020 - Raymond Kluender
July 20, 2021, Paper: "Question What is the total amount and distribution of medical debt in collections in the US? Findings In this retrospective analysis of credit reports for a nationally ...