Please join Meghan O’Sullivan, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for Belfer Community ...

In this talk, Greg Power will share his experience working in the weeds of politics in more than sixty countries, helping ...

In this talk, Lant Pritchett will address the question “how did we go from the end of history in 1989 to where we are today?” ...

In this divisive election year, is it possible to mobilize people across differences around a common cause? How can people with competing perspectives and interests join into a shared movement that ...

The Public Leadership Credential offers courses in three curricular areas — Evidence for Decisions, Leadership and Ethics, and Policy Design and Delivery. For each curricular area, there is an A ...

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 ...

July 2020, Paper, "There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, ...

Noevember 2021, Opinion: "Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener present a valuable, detailed account of the evolution of public debt instruments and institutions ...

2020, Paper, "The experimental method not only helps identify causal relationships, but also provides economists with a rich sense of context, focuses research on specific practical questions, ...

August 2021, Paper: "With “2020 hindsight,” the 2000s housing cycle is not a boom-bust but rather a boom- bust-rebound at both the national level and across cities. We argue this pattern reflects a ...

August 22, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School economist Dani Rodrik talks to Rob about the importance of putting debt payments by developing countries on hold in the face of the pandemic. They also ...