The value of late-in-life health care spending
Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.
Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.
Graduate student Elena Sobrino looks beyond the headlines to study interactions between the city’s people and institutions.
Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.
Taking time to understand underlying causes of stress can help children escape debilitating health effects, symposium speakers argue.
In yearlong program, MIT students apply computer science to humanities, arts, and social science research.
Nuclear strategy expert shares observations from the recent North Korea-South Korea summit and possible outcomes of the North Korea-U.S. summit.
A simple card explaining a government aid program leads to more rice for poor villagers in Indonesia.
MIT economist’s historical study details how railroads helped India trade and grow.
MIT Policy Hackathon, run by students within MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, seeks interdisciplinary solutions to societal challenges.
MIT economist lauded for work on education, market-design mechanisms.
Poor health is a less common cause of bankruptcy than commonly thought, but it brings other economic woes, study finds.
Government leaders, social service providers, and leading scholars gathered for the second conference of J-PAL North America’s State and Local Innovation Initiative.
Experts cite immigration as engine of U.S. success, lament human damage done by current policies, and see signs of hope.