The resurgence of tuberculosis is behavioral, not medical. Nudges can fix it – Researchers: Erez Yoeli, David Rand, and Jon Rathauser
Helped Keheala develop a digital health platform to improve TB patients' health in Kenya.
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The COVID-19 pandemic damages the U.S. and the world economy and puts policymakers in an unfamiliar dilemma. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing slow the spread of [...]
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The MIT Sloan School of Management announces a major gift from alumnus Bennett (Ben) W. Golub to support the MIT Center for Finance and Policy.
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A new book explores how game theory explains seemingly irrational behavior, from tastes in food to how people donate to charity.
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In an article in The Hill, Bob Pozen explores how the recently enacted Cares Act has tax provisions that favor wealthy investors and large companies. There is proposed legislation now in Congress to [...]
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MIT panel talks fiscal, global, and legal consequences of the government’s near-default. When MIT Sloan professor Deborah Lucas scheduled a panel discussion titled “U.S. Fiscal Crisis: Causes and Consequences,” the government was shut down, no compromise seemed imminent, and what the state of affair...
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Housing finance policy has been built during and for times of crisis. Just look at the long list of government actions related to the financing of housing [...]
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With employers filling 60 percent fewer management positions and otherwise guaranteed internship opportunities succumbing to budget cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students at MIT Sloan were scrambling ahead of the summer of 2020.
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Sloan Professor Andrew Lo, co-director of the CFP and director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, saw his pioneering work on how financial engineering could revolutionize funding for translational medical research take an important step forward this week, with the introduction of [...]
