Students can excel at mental math in marketplace jobs but struggle with formal math in the classroom, and vice versa.

As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program to help the West African nation thrive.

Selected LEVER collaborators will work with the organization to develop an evaluation of their respective programs that alleviate poverty.

Study of rigorous trial shows mixed results, suggests need to keep examining how nutrition can combat a pervasive disease.

MIT researchers who share their data recognized at second annual awards celebration.

Organizations will support government agencies in using evidence to advance economic mobility and racial equity in the wake of Covid-19.

Labs in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia will be led by J-PAL with support from Community Jameel.

An experiment in Egypt suggests ways to spread information for women facing domestic violence.

One of MIT’s five Climate Grand Challenges flagship projects, the Jameel Observatory-CREWSnet project will pilot in Bangladesh and Sudan to help communities adapt to the impacts of climate change.

The research center will support two nonprofits and four government agencies in designing randomized evaluations on housing stability, procedural justice, transportation, income assistance, and more.