In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing learning gaps. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an ...

THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES have witnessed significant liberalization among developing economies to foreign trade and investment, as advocated by international organizations. Nevertheless, for strategic ...

Principles of Economics, 7th Edition. Gregory Mankiw, 2014, Book. "With its clear and engaging writing style, Principles of Economics, Seventh Edition, continues to be one of the most popular books on ...

Background: China has one of the highest levels of tobacco consumption globally, and there is no national smoke-free legislation. Although more than 20 Chinese cities have passed local smoke-free laws ...

Joe Aldy is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a University Fellow at Resources for the ...

The Gleitsman Program for Leadership in Social Change encourages individual commitment and leadership by recognizing the exceptional achievement of innovators who have sparked positive social change.

Mark Shepard is an associate professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research studies health care ...

We present new statistical indicators of the structure and performance of US banks from 1990 to today, geographically disaggregated at the level of individual counties. The constructed data set (20 ...

“Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility.” Raj Chetty, Will Dobbie, Benjamin Goldman, Sonya R. Porter, Crystal S. Yang.

You can support the Gergen Summer Fellowship Program by giving to the David R. Gergen Leadership Experiential Learning Endowment Fund. The David Gergen Summer Fellowship Program honors David Gergen, ...

Large language models (LLMs) have recently made vast advances in both generating and analyzing textual data. Technical reports often compare LLMs’ outputs with “human” performance on various tests.

Economic globalization impacts the environment and sustainable development in a wide variety of ways and through a multitude of channels. The purpose of this paper is (a) to identify the key links ...