Careful planning of charging station placement could lessen or eliminate the need for new power plants, a new study shows.

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

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

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

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.

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

Research shows doctors and their families are less likely to follow guidelines about medicine. Why do the medically well-informed comply less often?

New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation displacing less-educated workers.

John David Minnich seeks to understand how trade policies fueled China’s rise and continue to determine geopolitical winners and losers.

In collaboration with Community Jameel and Co-Impact, rigorous research will inform social policies and programs.