Bridging the gap between evidence production and policy impact requires understanding how evidence becomes useful, usable and used. Spohn et al. discuss the obstacles and set a research agenda for evi...

Public Servant Pulse, developed by The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an annual survey that seeks to better understand the experiences, perspectives, and challenges of state and l...

Public Servant Pulse, developed by The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an annual survey that seeks to better understand the experiences, perspectives, and challenges of state and l...

Public Servant Pulse, developed by The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an annual survey that seeks to better understand the experiences, perspectives, and challenges of state and l...

Public Servant Pulse, developed by The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an annual survey that seeks to better understand the experiences, perspectives, and challenges of state and l...

A survey from the Partnership for Public Service also found that a majority of Americans oppose the Trump administration’s changes to government.

Public Servant Pulse, developed by The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an annual survey that seeks to better understand the experiences, perspectives, and challenges of state and l...

Today’s Buzz is by Elizabeth Linos, the Emma Bloomberg Professor of Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director of The People Lab. Follow Elizabeth on LinkedIn and The ...

A national hub for generating, sharing, and translating data and evidence about the people of government—from The People Lab, based at Harvard Kennedy School.

Public Servant Pulse, developed by The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an annual survey that seeks to better understand the experiences, perspectives, and challenges of state and l...

The People Lab is putting out a call for applications to city government partners

The People Lab is putting out a call for applications to city government partners

Evan Williams is a Research Manager at The People Lab, supporting the National City Survey and PolicyBot projects. Before joining The People Lab, she worked on education and training programs for rese...

Stigma may affect both how people use social safety net benefits and the way programs are designed, Harvard Kennedy School researchers show.

The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) identifies innovative, effective and scalable programs that help people move out of poverty.

Stigma features prominently in debates about the social safety net, but empirically disentangling its role has left open many questions about whether it is a meaningful—or movable—barrier to take-up. ...

Yunus Berndt is a Fellow with The People Lab, where he uses Large Language Models to scale and automate research processes. His interests lie at the intersection of Applied Mathematics, Statistics, an...

Six Harvard Kennedy School projects received grants of up to $20,000 to research the effects of the second Trump administration on public opinion and democratic institutions.

Behaviorally informed “nudges” are widely used in government outreach but are often seen as too modest to address poverty at scale. In four field e...