Study suggests automatically starting benefits at the outset of a recession would remove uncertainty for workers.
Using Ecuador as case study, economists show international trade widens the income gap in individual countries.
Study suggests sectarian identity in the region is tied to domestic matters, not a larger, transnational religious split.
Large study of existing research shows incremental improvement in patient outcomes and productivity, without big employment changes.
Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.
Research shows doctors and their families are less likely to follow guidelines about medicine. Why do the medically well-informed comply less often?
Study suggests a robot levy — but only a modest one — could help combat the effects of automation on income inequality in the U.S.
Compared to native-born citizens, immigrants are more frequently involved in founding companies at all scales.
Research using a Boston admissions lottery shows striking effects for children throughout their student lives.
Replacing rice-bag delivery with digital card vouchers helps recipients get their intended supplies, researchers report.
MIT political scientist In Song Kim shines a bright light on the dark art of political lobbying.
An experiment using data from 20 million LinkedIn profiles shows how much we rely on people we know less well to land new jobs.
Field experiment in Bangladesh shows the poor simply lack opportunities to gain wealth — but a one-time boost can make a major difference.
New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation displacing less-educated workers.
A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity.
Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.
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.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.