Study: Democracy fosters economic growth

Researchers find vast gains in productivity after countries democratize.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
March 7, 2019 ~7 min

Q&A: Why cities aren’t working for the working class

Professor David Autor’s latest research shows how economic polarization stems from urban job loss.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 20, 2019 ~7 min


The value of late-in-life health care spending | MIT News

Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
June 28, 2018 ~6 min

MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 77 students from the Class of 2018 | MIT News

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
June 26, 2018 ~3 min

Discovering hidden stories in the Flint water crisis | MIT News

Graduate student Elena Sobrino looks beyond the headlines to study interactions between the city’s people and institutions.

Fatima Husain | MIT News correspondent • mit
June 24, 2018 ~8 min

Method man | MIT News

Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
June 18, 2018 ~6 min

Fighting toxic stress in children is tough but possible | MIT News

Taking time to understand underlying causes of stress can help children escape debilitating health effects, symposium speakers argue.

David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
May 31, 2018 ~10 min

CS+HASS SuperUROP debuts with nine research projects | MIT News

In yearlong program, MIT students apply computer science to humanities, arts, and social science research.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
May 15, 2018 ~5 min


People power | MIT News

State-level policy in the U.S. is responsive to public opinion, study shows.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
May 11, 2018 ~6 min

3 Questions: Vipin Narang on the North Korea summits | MIT News

Nuclear strategy expert shares observations from the recent North Korea-South Korea summit and possible outcomes of the North Korea-U.S. summit.

Michelle English | Center for International Studies • mit
May 10, 2018 ~4 min

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