Fighting poverty with direct cash payments
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
The faculty members will work together to advance the cross-cutting initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.
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.
Large study of existing research shows incremental improvement in patient outcomes and productivity, without big employment changes.
Study suggests automatically starting benefits at the outset of a recession would remove uncertainty for workers.
Award provides five years of funding and access to a community of innovative scholars and leaders in science and technology.
First results underscore the urgent need for a better understanding of how to address inequities in birth outcomes.
Rapid increases in the speed and power of microchips have fueled innovation in many industries, but the future trajectory of that incredible progress may be in jeopardy.
Research shows that in Hungary, debt drove voters to the right, as part of a consequential shift.
Earning the top spot for the 11th straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.
Using Ecuador as case study, economists show international trade widens the income gap in individual countries.
New J-PAL North America publication helps policymakers understand summer programs’ wide-ranging benefits, in such areas as criminal justice involvement, education, and development.
Fulbright US Student Program funds opportunities for research, graduate study, and teaching abroad.