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Puerto Rico’s coastal wetlands face mounting challenges, many of which threaten the delicate balance of these ecosystems and ...

What happens when you give $10 million in free cash to some of the world’s poorest communities? In 2014, economists set out to answer this question by conducting one of the most ambitious field ...

SOE Dean Professor Li Jia is building critical knowledge of AI to further the School’s research excellence in econometrics ...

Researchers from Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan institutions analyze the barriers that low- and middle-income countries face in disseminating research on intensive care medicine, particularly in ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

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The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP) advises federal, state, and local governments and informs the public about economic and related public policies to promote the creation, ...

Ethnic minority graduates from a low socio-economic background are 45% less likely to be offered entry-level professional roles compared to more advantaged white applicants, finds a new report led ...