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Roe v. Wade has been overturned. What does that mean for America?

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a 6-3 vote. Almost half a century ago, the Roe v. Wade ruling was the basis for establishing a constitutional right to ...
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more ...
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Bound to Happen: Explanation Bias in Historical Analysis

This paper argues that historical analysis, necessarily written with hindsight, often underestimates the uncertainties of the past. We call this tendency explanation bias. This bias leads individuals ...
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Joseph Aldy

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 ...
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Racial Bias in Bail Decisions

This article develops a new test for identifying racial bias in the context of bail decisions—a high-stakes setting with large disparities between white and black defendants. We motivate our analysis ...
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Developing a rehabilitation program that works for incarcerated people

Marcella Alsan & Arkey M. Barnett & Peter Hull & Crystal Yang, 2024. “‘Something Works” in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program," NBER Working Papers 32282, National ...
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Election reform in the U.S.

THE CURRENT ELECTION SEASON in the United States has highlighted many of the problems with the country’s current election system; from convoluted campaign finance practices to stringent voter ...
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This is PFM

The acronym PFM stands for Public Financial Management: But what is public financial management? This short note tries to demystify the concept, drawing on perspectives of specialists in the area who ...
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The Upswing: How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again - Robert Putnam

October 2020, Book: "An eminent political scientist’s brilliant analysis of economic, social, and political trends over the past century demonstrating how we have gone from an individualistic “I” ...
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Financial Aid at Harvard Kennedy School

We are committed to distributing as much financial assistance as possible to our talented students; however, our institutional resources are limited. During the 2025-2026 academic year, approximately ...
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Emotion and Decision Making

A revolution in the science of emotion has emerged in recent decades, with the potential to create a paradigm shift in decision theories. The research reveals that emotions constitute potent, ...
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Flow-Driven ESG Returns

2023. Working Paper. "I show that the recent returns to ESG investing are strongly driven by price impact from flows towards ESG funds. Using data on institutional trades, I estimate the market’s ...