IN 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called loneliness an epidemic. In an advisory on the issue, he wrote, “Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and ...

Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades. Nathan Nunn, August 2008, Book Chapter."This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that ...

This report discusses cash bail reforms that have occurred in the United States and provides key considerations for people interested in implementing bail reforms in their jurisdiction. Based on a ...

2024, Opinion: "Are China’s real estate problems different? When we published our paper “Peak China Housing” (based on pre-COVID data) in 2020, our thesis—that China was facing a difficult transition ...

How much does the war in Iran cost? The war costs America two billion dollars each day, says war budgeting expert and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Linda Bilmes—and will cost at least one ...

Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Public Diplomacy and Soft Power." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616.1 (March 2008): 94-109.

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the ...

How does a graduate school prepare leaders to address complicated public challenges? Harvard Kennedy School believes in the value of experience. The Michael S. Dukakis Governors’ Summer Fellowship ...

A trafficked sex slave could be sold off as a virgin for $7000...a child slave for $20. Siddharth Kara, Harvard University fellow and author of three books on modern-day slavery, talks about the ...

Increasing quality transparency is widely regarded as a strong mechanism for improving the alignment between patient choices and provider capabilities, and thus, is widely pursued by policymakers as ...

July 8, 2025, Opinion: "For over half a decade, the United States has imposed significant semiconductor export controls on China, aiming to slow China’s chip industry and to retain US leadership in ...

This Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) was conducted for the Human Leadership Lab (HLL) and explores the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence and leadership development. We mapped how ...