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.

An experiment in Egypt suggests ways to spread information for women facing domestic violence.

Using insights into how people intuit others’ emotions, researchers have designed a model that approximates this aspect of human social intelligence.

President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes.

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

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

Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.

MIT PhD candidate Jacob Jaffe uses data science to identify and solve problems in election administration.