A Chilean experiment with legal aid and social services cuts time in foster care, with lasting effects for kids and lower costs for programs.

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

An experiment in Amsterdam suggests providing better information to people can help move them out of “energy poverty.”

International research co-led by Professor Fotini Christia finds an approach lauded in the US works differently in other regions.

Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care.

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You is aimed at reducing anxiety and guiding young people to make better choices.

Letting people work with a “navigator” dramatically increases how often they move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods.

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.

Labs in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia will be led by J-PAL with support from Community Jameel.