Mexico labor markets. This event launches a new public labor database for Mexico and shares insights on place-based growth.

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Roger Porter, a veteran of three White House administrations, explains both the why and how ...

April 2021, Paper: "Integrating risk assessment, economic evaluation, and uncertainty to inform policy decisions is a core challenge to risk analysis. In September 2019, the Harvard Center for Risk ...

July 29, 2020, Paper, "Pledging patents as loan collateral has increased in advanced countries with the growth of intangibles in the value of firms. Despite China's less sophisticated market in ...

January 2023, Video: "As industrial policy returns to the top of government agendas, many of the challenges impacting manufacturing remain global in nature. How can governments and companies work ...

March 2023, Paper: "This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage ...

January 22, 2025, Opinion: "In his first day of office, President Donald Trump made it clear that he intends to follow through on his campaign promise to dramatically increase the deportation of ...

August 2023, Paper: "There are few economic policies that generate more kneejerk opposition from economists than industrial policy. This has not stopped governments from making abundant use of it, ...

October 2022, Paper: "We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics on ...

November 2023, Paper: "When South Africans threw off the structures of apartheid three decades ago, the nation captivated the world. The early 1990s marked a victory for generations of freedom ...

March 8, 2024, Opinion: "Whereas free trade was once the central cause of progressive reformers seeking to combat entrenched interests on behalf of ordinary people, now it is the bête noire of both ...

December 2022, Paper: "Corporate human rights due diligence is now a social fact; it is no longer merely an idea or aspiration. This paper uses economist Frank H. Knight’s famous, albeit controversial ...