“Every time I meet with her, I feel like I have wings.”
MIT Professor Esther Duflo honored as Committed to Caring for fostering graduate student skills and ambition.
MIT Professor Esther Duflo honored as Committed to Caring for fostering graduate student skills and ambition.
Notowidigdo will guide J-PAL North America in developing rigorous research on economic mobility and advise the creation of a racial equity research agenda.
J-PAL North America and the University of Chicago’s Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab will evaluate two approaches to text-based parental engagement programs that motivate two distinct kinds of learning interactions.
Associate Professor Otto Cordero is looking for the fundamental constraints that shape microbial ecosystems.
Committed to Caring program honors David Autor for his unique approach to graduate student mentorship and advocacy.
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
In collaboration with Community Jameel and Co-Impact, rigorous research will inform social policies and programs.
Evaluation Incubators to provide technical assistance, training, funding to help partners design randomized evaluations of housing stability strategies and state and local programs.
First results underscore the urgent need for a better understanding of how to address inequities in birth outcomes.
New J-PAL North America publication helps policymakers understand summer programs’ wide-ranging benefits, in such areas as criminal justice involvement, education, and development.
The program’s inaugural honoree, Professor Mohamed H. A. Hassan, president of the World Academy of Sciences, recently visited MIT.
A new platform will unite climate models, impact predictions, random control trial evaluations, and humanitarian services to bring cutting-edge tools to Bangladeshi communities.
New collaboration aims to strengthen Egypt’s poverty alleviation policies through rigorous evaluation and innovation.
J-PAL North America publication highlights the promise of sectoral employment programs in combating US wage inequality.
MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.