David Autor receives Heinz Award
A special 25th anniversary award honors the MIT economist for work on employment, trade, and technological change.
A special 25th anniversary award honors the MIT economist for work on employment, trade, and technological change.
Each recipient will receive a $625,000, no-strings-attached award.
Center will work with affiliated researchers to test low-cost, high-impact behavioral interventions to improve health-care delivery and health outcomes for aging adults in the United States.
The Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Initiative aims to catalyze evidence-based policy solutions to the challenges posed by the pandemic.
Twenty-two students from 14 countries take an evidence-based approach to affecting global change.
Summarizing results from 96 randomized evaluations, new J-PAL North America publication highlights the sizable impact tutoring programs can have on student learning.
Whether analyzing currency attacks or school choice, economist Stephen Morris seeks “a richer perspective on information structures.”
The PhD student is fascinated by local variations in economic activity, and how they drive national policies.
Analysis shows requiring masks for public-facing U.S. business employees on April 1 would have saved tens of thousands of lives.
University of the Witwatersrand partnership, one of MIT’s most active programs in Africa, extends beyond international travel.
The King Climate Action Initiative at J-PAL will develop large-scale climate-response programs for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
J-PAL research center will focus on evidence-based policy-making to reduce poverty in the Middle East and North Africa.
MIT Department of Economics establishes new professorship honoring Institute professor and Nobel laureate.
MITx MicroMasters Program credential holders leverage MIT-caliber education to move their industries to the cutting edge.
Five-day offering provided nearly 2,000 participants with an introduction to the design and use of randomized evaluations to test the effectiveness social programs.