The forthcoming ‘Conference of the Parties’, or COP for short, taking place in the United Arab Emirates in November 2023, will be the twenty-eighth such event. First established as part of the United ...

My goal here is twofold: First, I wish to make a plea for the relevance of moral considerations in debates about immigration. Too often, immigration debates are conducted solely from the standpoint of ...

The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights serves as the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in the human rights domain. The center embraces a dual mission: to educate ...

May 2024, Paper: "As the latest general-purpose-technology (GPT), we study the value of AI innovations as it diffuses across general and application sectors, using the USPTO’s AI patent dataset.

The Trump presidency featured a high volume of contentious mobilization. We describe the collection and aggregation of protest mobilization data from 2017 to 2021 and offer five observations. First, ...

The Project on Workforce at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy has released new research highlighting the disconnect between higher education and the labor market. Co-directors David Deming, ...

A powerful tool to achieve equitable development is promotion of economic empowerment for marginalized citizens by increasing formal financial services access and utilization. The provision of these ...

“In her new book, rather than tear down the statues of certain white men, Ijeoma Oluo casts her eye on the long view of a nation that, as a whole, has built a dominant identity for white men. Her book ...

Dam, Rob van, Frank Hu and Walter Willett. 2020. Coffee, Caffeine, and Health. The New England Journal of Medicine 383, no. 4 (July): 369-378.

Venezuela is grappling with an education crisis, marked by low quality and high teacher dropout rates. From 2018 to 2021, 25% of teachers left the system. However, many remain in schools, even when ...

UK domestic policy – especially in England - in recent years has focused on regional inequalities in economic outcomes and public service delivery, which are tied to a political ‘geography of ...

To mark the arrival of the 21st century, in 1999 the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine offered an Olympian preview of the decades ahead. The Academy foresaw a world in which ...