3 Questions: Lourdes Melgar on Mexico’s energy reform | MIT News
MIT alumna, Robert Wilhelm Fellow, and former Mexican government official discusses opportunities and challenges of recent reforms.
March 22, 2017 • ~5 min
America’s two-track economy | MIT News
Economist’s new book examines decline of the nation’s middle class.
March 13, 2017 • ~7 min
Strength in numbers | MIT News
PhD student Dean Knox studies social networks and how individuals use them to access government goods and services.
Feb. 17, 2017 • ~5 min
Cheaper, faster randomized evaluations | MIT News
J-PAL North America releases new catalog of administrative data sets to give researchers a leg up in conducting rigorous evaluations of social programs.
Feb. 17, 2017 • ~2 min
Concrete Sustainability Hub welcomes Panamanian government officials | MIT News
Panamanian delegates participating in the U.S. Trade and Development Agency Global Procurement Initiative visited MIT to learn about life-cycle cost analysis models.
Feb. 10, 2017 • ~5 min
Government leaders gather at MIT to advance evidence-based policymaking | MIT News
State and local policymakers joined with leading researchers to share experiences overcoming challenges to evaluating government programs.
Feb. 9, 2017 • ~6 min
Testing strategies for preventing violence and crime | MIT News
J-PAL North America funds randomized studies to evaluate crime-prevention programs.
Jan. 31, 2017 • ~4 min
MIT Election Data and Science Lab launches | MIT News
Founded by political scientist Charles Stewart III, the Election Lab focuses on non-partisan research, data, and analysis to improve elections.
Jan. 25, 2017 • ~9 min
U.S. Department of Energy announces MIT Energy Initiative will join new Manufacturing USA Institute | MIT News
MITEI faculty affiliates to contribute clean energy expertise to national coalition that will address manufacturing challenges in energy-intensive processing industries.
Jan. 11, 2017 • ~8 min
Helping policy and technology work together | MIT News
Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.
Dec. 12, 2016 • ~7 min
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