J-PAL North America announces partners through inaugural Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator
Incubator aims to identify the most effective strategies at reducing homelessness and promoting housing stability.
Podcast series from J-PAL North America shares stories behind the impact of summer jobs in the US
Series paints a holistic picture of summer youth employment programs and how research helps strengthen them.
J-PAL North America launches MIT Roybal Center for Translational Research to Improve Health Care for the Aging
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.
J-PAL North America launches research initiative to focus on Covid-19 recovery
The Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Initiative aims to catalyze evidence-based policy solutions to the challenges posed by the pandemic.
How tutoring programs can combat the “Covid-19 slide”
Summarizing results from 96 randomized evaluations, new J-PAL North America publication highlights the sizable impact tutoring programs can have on student learning.
Diverse international cohort first to earn MIT master's degrees in data, economics, and development policy
Twenty-two students from 14 countries take an evidence-based approach to affecting global change.
$25 million gift launches ambitious new effort tackling poverty and climate change
The King Climate Action Initiative at J-PAL will develop large-scale climate-response programs for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab to launch research center at American University in Cairo
J-PAL research center will focus on evidence-based policy-making to reduce poverty in the Middle East and North Africa.
Learners today, leaders tomorrow
MITx MicroMasters Program credential holders leverage MIT-caliber education to move their industries to the cutting edge.
J-PAL webinar series on program evaluation draws global audience
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.
Hacking Commencement
Marshalling forces from across the Institute, MIT will deliver an online celebration worthy of the Class of 2020.
Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2020
Faculty members Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.
Events postponed or canceled as MIT responds to COVID-19
Changes follow new Institute policies on travel, events, and visitors; some large classes to move online.
How door-to-door canvassing slowed an epidemic
Study finds that in Liberia, volunteers limited damage from Ebola by distributing information within their own communities.
Esther Duflo PhD ’99 to speak at 2020 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony
MIT professor and alumna shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics, which recognized collaborators’ “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”