Evaluating voter experience
Research from Charles Stewart III finds that wait times at polls in the 2016 election improved significantly in several key states.
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Study: Mobile-money services lift Kenyans out of poverty
Tavneet Suri is co-author of a new paper showing that mobile-money services have had notable long-term effects on poverty reduction in Kenya—especially among female-headed households—and have inspired a surprising occupation shift among women.
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Why You’re Not Getting Value from Your Data Science
Piece by Kalyan Veeramachaneni considers what it might take for businesses to realize the full potential of their data repositories with machine learning.
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MIT announces MITx MicroMasters program in development economics, with path to full master’s degree
Esther Duflo co-created this program with Abhijit Banerjee and Ben Olken.
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Four MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars
TPP student Alix de Monts selected as a Schwarzman Scholar and will pursue a year of study and leadership training at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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A 2015 paper co-authored by TPP alum Yi Xue and Professor Richard Larson won the Best Paper of the Year Award from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, published in the Monthly Labor Review.
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People are worried Trump will stop climate progress. The numbers suggest he can’t.
Opinion piece by Jessika Trancik takes a look at the potential for disruption of global climate progress.
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Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence
Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.
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MIT at COP22
At UN Climate Change Conference, MIT's attendees—including some affiliated with IDSS—share insights on implementing climate commitments.
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Deep Thinking About Interconnections
Profile of IDSS director Munther Dahleh, emphasizing research in areas of the power grid, abstract modeling, and mitigating network failures.
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