In our first seminar of the Spring semester, Bohnet and Chilazi will give an overview of their book and the theme of this ...

This seminar is based on ideas presented in the upcoming book "Make Work Fair" by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi.

When service sector employment fell by 15% during the early days of the pandemic, many hourly service workers faced increasing economic precarity and negative consequences for their health and ...

July 2018. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Ed Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, on the future of employment, inequality, poverty, and joblessness ...

December 2020, Paper: "This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus ...

September-October 2020, Paper: "The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities in the production strategies and supply chains of firms everywhere. Coupled with a rise in economic nationalism, ...

During this webinar, author and Davis Center Research Associate, Jack Nusan Porter, will discuss the development of Holocaust and Genocide studies as a sociological field with a special emphasis on ...

May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...

June 15, 2021, Video: "Rebecca Henderson teaches at the Harvard Business School, but she’s a vocal critic of “business as usual.” In fact, her scholarly research focuses on how we need to change ...

2020, Paper, "This note describes results from a survey of “anchor investors” in impact funds. Anchor investors are described as “generally the first investor to make a substantial capital commitment ...

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, ...

2020, Paper, " The nature and extent of the role of the Chinese state in the economy is fundamental to many empirical and theoretical debates about that country’s political economy. We document and ...