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1.

The $64 Billion Massachusetts Vehicle Economy

HKS Working Paper No. RWP-038
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2019
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Stevie Olson, Phil Berkaw, Lucien Charland, Elizabeth Patton and Linda Bilmes
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-031
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
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Will Dobbie, Hans Gronqvist, Susan Niknami, Marten Palme and Mikael Priks
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Stockholm University, Stockholm University, Stockholm University - Department of Economics and Stockholm University - Department of Economics
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Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-030
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
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Will Dobbie and Jae Song
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Government of the United States of America - Social Security Administration
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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-029
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
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Will Dobbie, Andres Liberman, Daniel Paravisini and Vikram Pathania
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and University of Sussex - Department of Economics
Downloads 9
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The Property Rights Theory of Production Networks

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-033
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
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Ivan Balbuzanov and Maciej H. Kotowski
University of Melbourne - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-132
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2019
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Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker and Jonathan S. Skinner
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

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Corporate Purpose in Play: The Role of ESG Investing

M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series, 2019-05, Draft chapter for 'Sustainable Investing: A Path to a New Horizon', Routledge, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Nov 2019
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John Gerard Ruggie
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Downloads 179
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Bound to Happen: Explanation Bias in Historical Analysis

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-032
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Oct 2019
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Aroop Mukharji and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Who Should See the Patient? On Discretionary Patient-Provider Assignments in Hospitals

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2019
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Mariam Atkinson and Soroush Saghafian
Harvard University, TH Chan School of Public Health and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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'Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists': How Family Immigration History Shapes Representation in Congress

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-028, September 2019
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 27 Sep 2019
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James Feigenbaum, Maxwell Palmer and Benjamin Schneer
Boston University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Political Science and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-025, August 2019
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 11 Sep 2019
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David Deming and Kadeem Noray
Harvard University and Harvard University
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A Source of Escalation or a Source of Restraint? An Empirical Investigation of How Civil Society Affects Mass Killings

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-027, September 2019
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Sep 2019
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Erica Chenoweth and Evan Perkoski
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and University of Connecticut
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Using Behavioral Insights to Improve Truancy Notifications

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-026, August 2019
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 22 Aug 2019
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Jessica Lasky-Fink, Carly Robinson, Hedy Chang and Todd Rogers
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University, Attendance Works and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Risky Business: Commissioning Portraits in Renaissance Italy

Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, thematic issue, “Bad Reception: Negative Reactions to Italian Renaissance Art,” ed. by Diletta Gamberini, Jonathan K. Nelson, and Alessandro Nova, Forthcoming. , HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-024, July 2019,
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Jul 2019
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Jonathan Katz Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Syracuse University in Florence and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Strategic Sorting: The Role of Ordeals in Health Care

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-023, June 2019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jul 2019
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Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Health Care Spending Projections and Policy Changes: Recognizing the Limits of Existing Forecasts

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-022, June 2019
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Jun 2019
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Daniel Shoag
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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First-Price Auctions with Budget Constraints

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-021, June 2019
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 13 Jun 2019
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Maciej H. Kotowski
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Can Transparency and Accountability Programs Improve Health? Experimental Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-020
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Jun 2019
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Jean Arkedis, Jessica Creighton, Akshay Dixit, Archon Fung, Stephen Kosack and Dan Levy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy: Normative Assessment and Positive Prognosis

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-017
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Jun 2019
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Robert N. Stavins
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Joint Patient Selection and Scheduling under No-Shows: Theory and Application in Proton Therapy

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2019
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Soroush Saghafian, Nikolaos Trichakis, Ruihao Zhu and Helen Shih
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital
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Do Physicians Influence Each Other's Performance? Evidence from the Emergency Department

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-026, May 2019
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2019
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Soroush Saghafian, Raha Imanirad and Stephen Traub
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and Mayo Clinic - College of Medicine and Science
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A Perfectly Robust Approach to Multiperiod Matching Problems

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-016
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 May 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2019
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Maciej H. Kotowski
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Estimating the Effect of Asking About Citizenship on the US Census: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-015
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 May 2019
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Matthew Baum, Bryce Dietrich, Rebecca Goldstein and Maya Sen
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Birds of a Feather: Estimating the Value of Statistical Life from Dual-Earner Families

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-013
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Apr 2019
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Joseph E. Aldy
Harvard Kennedy School

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Efficient Division When Preferences are Private: Using the Expected Externality Mechanism

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Apr 2019
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Christina Aperjis, Maciej H. Kotowski and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise - Social Computing Lab, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Unwavering SES Achievement Gap: Trends in U.S. Student Performance

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-012
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Mar 2019
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Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura Talpey and Ludger Woessmann
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Harvard University - Department of Government (FAS), Stanford University and Ifo Institute for Economic Research

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Silver or Lead? Why Violence and Corruption Limit Women’s Representation

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Mar 2019
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Pippa Norris
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Descriptive Norms and Gender Diversity: Reactance from Men

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-007
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet and Alexandra van Geen
Harvard University, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-009
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Josefin Meyer, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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Informational Inequity Aversion and Performance

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-008, Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 3339572
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Iris Bohnet and Farzad Saidi
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence and Heideggerian Technoskepticism: The Long (Worrisome?) View

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-010
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Mathias Risse
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Financial Crises: Past and Future

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-005
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Carmen Reinhart
Harvard University
Downloads 161
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Managerial Control and Executive Compensation

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-002
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Frederic M. Scherer
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Should the Fed Be Constrained?

Cato Journal, Forthcoming, HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-003
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Jeffrey Frankel
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Curious Case of the Missing Defaults

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-004
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Carmen Reinhart
Harvard University
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The Spillover Effects of Hospital Closures on the Efficiency and Quality of Other Hospitals

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2020
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Lina Song and Soroush Saghafian
Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Gender Differences in Volunteer's Dilemma: Evidence from Teamwork among Graduate Students

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-001
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Jan 2019
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Pinar Dogan
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The (Lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-041
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Dec 2018
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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken and Sudarno Sumarto
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and SMERU Research Institute

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Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-040
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Dec 2018
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Alberto F. Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Kennedy School, University of Bocconi - Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) and Bocconi University - BAFFI Center on International Markets, Money, and Regulation

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Why Won’t You Listen to Me? Measuring Receptiveness to Opposing Views

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-028, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3295946
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 05 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2019
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Julia Minson, Frances Chen and Catherine H. Tinsley
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), University of British Columbia and Georgetown University - Department of Management
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Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-036
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 30 Oct 2018
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Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti
Harvard Kennedy School, Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Bocconi University - BAFFI Center on International Markets, Money, and Regulation
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Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives’ Marriage, and Fertility

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-035
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 29 Oct 2018
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Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School

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Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-034
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 29 Oct 2018
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Michela Carlana
Harvard Kennedy School
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Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-033
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 25 Oct 2018
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Desmond Ang
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 24 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2019
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Will Dobbie, Andres Liberman, Daniel Paravisini and Vikram Pathania
Princeton University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and University of Sussex - Department of Economics

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Two-Stage Examinations: Can Examinations Be More Formative Experiences?

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-032
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Oct 2018
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Dan Levy, Mae Klinger and Theodore Svoronos
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Charging the Future: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Vehicle Adoption

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-026
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 18 Sep 2018
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Henry Lee and Alex Clark
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Climate Policy Initiative
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Take Two! SAT Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-031
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 05 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2018
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Joshua Goodman, Oded Gurantz and Jonathan Smith
Brandeis University - Department of Economics, Stanford University and Georgia State University
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Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-024
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Sep 2018
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Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics

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Determining the Differences that Matter: Development and Divergence in US States Over 1850-2010

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-030
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Aug 2018
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Penny Mealy, J. Doyne Farmer and Ricardo Hausmann
University of Oxford - Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford - Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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