Health effects of China’s climate policy extend across Pacific
Improved air quality in China could prevent nearly 2,000 premature deaths in the U.S.
Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | July 29, 2019 | mit~4 mins
Tags: eaps joint-program-on-the-science-and-policy-of-global-change school-of-science idss school-of-engineering china climate-change developing-countries economics emissions environment global-warming greenhouse-gases health international-initiatives pollution research sustainability earth-and-atmospheric-sciences
Cambridge historian and his family members announced as joint winners of one of the biggest cash prizes in world economics
A ‘radical’ plan by three members of the same family to boost UK growth has been named as one of the first winners of the £100,000 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Economics Prize, one of the world’s largest prizes in the discipline.
Cambridge University News | July 10, 2019 | cambridge~5 mins
Tags: economics growth
Pathways to a low-carbon China
Study projects a key role for carbon capture and storage.
Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | July 8, 2019 | mit~5 mins
Tags: joint-program-on-the-science-and-policy-of-global-change mit-energy-initiative climate-change alternative-energy energy environment economics greenhouse-gases carbon-dioxide research policy emissions china technology-and-society
Empowering African farmers with data
Research from the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society aims to help African farmers increase their production and profits with better prediction.
Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society | May 30, 2019 | mit~6 mins
Tags: food agriculture data economics funding africa school-of-engineering idss research collaboration
Nationwide soda tax would mean $7B in net benefits
Economists considered health, enjoyment, tax revenue, and other factors in their consideration of a nationwide soda tax.
James Devitt-NYU | May 20, 2019 | futurity~5 mins
Tags: health-and-medicine consumers economics soft-drinks sugar taxes
Building a community for statistics and data science at MIT and beyond
Third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science conference gathers a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners.
Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society | May 10, 2019 | mit~5 mins
Tags: special-events-and-guest-speakers statistics data idss research economics algorithms electrical-engineering-computer-science-eecs school-of-engineering school-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing
Study: For low-income countries, climate action pays off by 2050
Economic benefits of mitigation arrive much sooner than previously thought.
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | May 1, 2019 | mit~5 mins
Tags: research energy greenhouse-gases carbon climate environment economics policy emissions weather natural-disasters climate-change poverty joint-program-on-the-science-and-policy-of-global-change
Climate change has already worsened economic inequality
"...most of the poorest countries on Earth are considerably poorer than they would have been without global warming."
Josie Garthwaite-Stanford | April 23, 2019 | futurity~7 mins
Tags: earth-and-environment featured climate-change economics money
Model can predict tariff impact ahead of time
A new model can account for the impact of trade tariffs like those the Trump administration has imposed on steel and soybeans.
Kurt Greenbaum-WUSTL | April 19, 2019 | futurity~7 mins
Tags: society-and-culture business economics global-trade government money
When companies file an IPO, local ZIP codes get a boost
Companies that file for an IPO alter the economies of nearby ZIP codes, research finds.
David Ruth-Rice | April 19, 2019 | futurity~4 mins
Tags: society-and-culture economics housing money neighborhoods stock-market
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