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.

Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.

Evaluation Incubators to provide technical assistance, training, funding to help partners design randomized evaluations of housing stability strategies and state and local programs.

Large study of existing research shows incremental improvement in patient outcomes and productivity, without big employment changes.