How to avoid a “winner’s curse” for social programs
When interventions or policies perform well in studies, they may disappoint later on. An MIT economist’s tools can help planners recognize this trap.
When interventions or policies perform well in studies, they may disappoint later on. An MIT economist’s tools can help planners recognize this trap.
Collaborative brings together charter school policy, practice, and research communities to help make research on charters more actionable, rigorous, and policy-relevant.
In campus talk, Daron Acemoglu offers vision of “machine usefulness,” rather than autonomous “intelligence,” to help workers and spread prosperity.
The pathbreaking thinker helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, in her lauded career.
Associate Professor Dean Eckles studies how our social networks affect our behavior and shape our lives.
Labs in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia will be led by J-PAL with support from Community Jameel.
An experiment in Egypt suggests ways to spread information for women facing domestic violence.
Using insights into how people intuit others’ emotions, researchers have designed a model that approximates this aspect of human social intelligence.
The major invites students to explore the riches of culture, innovation, thought leadership, and beauty that originate in the continent of Africa and its many diasporas.
A faculty member at MIT Sloan for more than 65 years, Schein was known for his groundbreaking holistic approach to organization change.
Undergraduates selected for the competitive program enjoy a seminar series and conversations over dinners with distinguished faculty.
Replacing rice-bag delivery with digital card vouchers helps recipients get their intended supplies, researchers report.
Research shows doctors and their families are less likely to follow guidelines about medicine. Why do the medically well-informed comply less often?
Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.
Associate Professor Noah Nathan is generating a body of scholarship on the political impacts of urbanization throughout the global South.