As a Rappaport Fellow, Samya Mishra MPA 2024 conducted policy research with the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency.

Policymakers and budgetary analysts have long argued that roads are heavily subsidized. The diffusion of spending among federal, state, and local government entities, along with the complexity of ...

We examine the role an exogenous increase in household income, due to a government transfer unrelated to household characteristics, plays in children's long-run outcomes. Children in affected ...

We contribute to a current debate that focuses on whether individuals with more than one subordinate identity (i.e., Black women) experience more negative leader perceptions than do leaders with ...

The Trump administration’s willingness to violate trade rules to maximize its negotiating leverage is undermining its most important and most legitimate objective in international trade and investment ...

We present the most comprehensive set of estimates to date for status First Nations mortality in Canada. We use administrative data from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to establish a set of ...

Fundamental knowledge in the life sciences has consequential implications for medicine and subsequent medical innovations. Using publications in leading life science journals to measure fundamental ...

Importance Screening measures of depressive symptoms (eg, 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9]) are increasingly used in surveys and remote applications, where shorter versions would be ...

At the Harvard Center for International Development (CID), we tackle the world’s most pressing development challenges through research that spans 12 core themes. CID faculty affiliates across Harvard ...

November 2019, Paper, "Despite the rising use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings in financial markets, there is substantial disagreement across rating agencies regarding what ...

September 2, 2021, Video: "Renowned Harvard Business School professor Dr. John Kotter has studied, written, and lectured about leadership for decades. In his newest book, Change, Kotter dives into how ...

April 2021, Paper: "Integrating risk assessment, economic evaluation, and uncertainty to inform policy decisions is a core challenge to risk analysis. In September 2019, the Harvard Center for Risk ...