Replacing rice-bag delivery with digital card vouchers helps recipients get their intended supplies, researchers report.

Even after January’s storms, California faces a water-scarce future. An economist and an engineer propose a way to test higher water prices as a conservation strategy without hurting low-income users.

Research using a Boston admissions lottery shows striking effects for children throughout their student lives.

Evidence from Massachusetts suggests that a multistep process discourages enrollment. The findings could help policymakers stave off a sharp decline in coverage when COVID-19 policies change.

In a new book, “Risky Business,” Amy Finkelstein examines the core issue of the insurance industry: Who gets to be a customer?

Both sides have reason to find common ground, says a group of energy and climate policy analysts.

J-PAL North America and the University of Chicago’s Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab will evaluate two approaches to text-based parental engagement programs that motivate two distinct kinds of learning interactions.

To buy and sell obsidian, the Maya people used a market economy with far less oversight from their rulers that previously thought.

Understanding when, where and why fishing vessels sometimes turn off their transponders is a key step toward curbing illegal fishing and other crimes on the high seas.

Study suggests a robot levy — but only a modest one — could help combat the effects of automation on income inequality in the U.S.