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 ...

Using a novel panel data set of recent immigrants to the U.S. (2005–2007) from individual-level linked U.S. Census Bureau data and Internal Revenue Service records, we measure the impact of return ...

Belief in conspiracy theories has significant social and political consequences. While prior research has focused primarily on psychological predispositions as drivers of conspiracy beliefs, ...

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 ...

We explore the future of global climate cooperation in light of US withdrawal from global climate agreements and the reversal of US federal climate policy. At present, the free-rider problem hampers ...

Course Preview Days Schedule Fall 2025/January 2026 Tuesday, September 2 and Wednesday, September 3, 2025 AY26 Fall HKS Course Preview Days.xlsx Canvas course site links will be added to the schedule ...

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 ...

The literature on taxation in developing countries has centered on the importance of third-party information for enforcement. Yet, while surely a long-run objective, leveraging such information ...

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 ...