When interventions or policies perform well in studies, they may disappoint later on. An MIT economist’s tools can help planners recognize this trap.

Collaborative brings together charter school policy, practice, and research communities to help make research on charters more actionable, rigorous, and policy-relevant.

Studies debunk prevailing belief, highlight series of gender-based social factors.

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.

Three Indigenous studies scholars draw from colonial histories and explain why listening for alien life can have ethical ramifications.

Using insights into how people intuit others’ emotions, researchers have designed a model that approximates this aspect of human social intelligence.

President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes.

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

Twitter has long allowed anyone to access its data about who tweeted what and when. This has been a boon to research, from public health to criminology. The new fees put that research at risk.