Ian Kumekawa’s book “Empty Vessel” explores globalization, economics, and the hazy world of short-term transactions known as “the offshore.”

With support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.

A study on ride-sharing opens a window into consumer behavior, measuring the benefits for businesses.

Informal help is a huge share of elder care in U.S., a burden that is only set to expand. A new book explores different countries’ solutions.

A comprehensive study of the U.S. system could help policymakers analyze methods of matching donated kidneys and their recipients.

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

Industrial policy is said to have sparked huge growth in East Asia. Two MIT economists say the numbers tell a more complex story.

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.

Researchers show that even the best-performing large language models don’t form a true model of the world and its rules, and can thus fail unexpectedly on similar tasks.