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The policy change needed now to avoid a climate-driven global food crisis
Economist and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Wolfram Schlenker warns that reduced funding for agricultural research and ...
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Should race be used in determining risk for disease? Yes. And no.
Age, gender, and lifestyle are key factors in predicting risks for illnesses like cancer and heart disease, but adding race ...
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Disentangling Climate and Development Finance
Although integrating climate and development goals may seem advantageous, there are critical trade-offs that suggest ...
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Ask how you can do human good: artificial intelligence and the future at HKS
Manish Maheshwari MC/MPA Mason Fellow 2025 has witnessed firsthand the transformative power of technology—and the need to ...
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Technological Complexity and U.S.-China Nuclear Competition
Drawing from scholarship in complexity theory and science and technology studies, the speaker argues that nuclear ...
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Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Kevin Young
The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy welcomes Professor Kevin Young (UMass Amherst) to ...
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong & How We Can Reboot
Join Jeremy Weinstein, Harvard Kennedy School Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, as he discusses his book ...
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Rana Mitter: What will a second Trump presidency mean for U.S.-China relations?
The incoming administration of President Donald Trump could have significant ramifications for the United States-China relationship. In this video, Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia ...
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Bridging Gaps in Education and Climate Justice with AI: Insights from The Nobel Fest and Teacher’s Summit
Education, often considered the cornerstone of development, faces a dual challenge in today’s world: equipping students to navigate the rapidly evolving technological landscape and addressing the ...
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Illiberal Playbooks: Preparing for Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights in the U.S.
Event Description: As advocates in the United States brace for attacks on LGBTQI+ rights from an emboldened anti-LGBTQI+ movement employing the illiberal playbook, it is crucial to learn from those ...
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Income Volatility Increases Financial Impatience - Ashley Whillans
2020, Paper: "Using a multi-method approach, we investigate whether income volatility is associated with financial impatience—the preference to receive a small sum of money immediately over a larger ...
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An Econometric Model of International Growth Dynamics for Long-horizon Forecasting
June 3, 2020, Paper, "We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint long-run evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017. We find considerable ...