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Understanding the causes and likely outcomes of the South Korean political crisis
Harvard Kennedy School’s adjunct lecturer in public policy and East Asia political expert, Jeeyang Rhee Baum, examines South ...
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Martial Law in South Korea: What Happened and What’s Next?
When presented with a clear threat to democratic norms and institutions by the President’s declaration of martial law, many ...
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Series: Latin American Security Challenges Amidst Authoritarian Populism
Moderated by former Mayor of Bogotá Claudia López Hernández, this panel discussion is part of a five-session seminar ...
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The Achievement Gap Initiative
The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University launched in 2005 as a University-wide endeavor based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social ...
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Post-Election 2024: The Future of Human Rights in the U.S.
Following the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a second administration under Donald Trump has already sparked conversation over the path forward for democracy and how to safeguard many ...
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Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach - Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
April 2021, Paper: "We provide evidence of the stock market wealth effect on consumption by using a local labor market analysis and regional heterogeneity in stock market wealth. An increase in local ...
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Tarun Khanna on the jobs of the future, how entrepreneurs can build trust, and institutional voids
March 2019. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard ...
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Can Trade Work for Workers? - Gordon Hanson
May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other ...
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A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates - Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers
November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world despite large buildups of government debt. As Table 1 ...
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US unemployment remains worse than it seems as millions still out of the labor force - Jason Furman & WIllie Powell
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Low Interest Rates - N. Gregory Mankiw
December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...
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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 ...