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Foundational Learning Key To Improving Learning Outcomes

Children in sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, experienced a learning crisis that worsened due to prolonged school closures and other disruptions to the education system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence-based approaches that will accelerate the learning of foundational skills, such as...

MIT Professor says the pandemic exposed the need to update U.S. government technology

NPR
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with MIT economics professor David Autor about how outdated U.S. government technology contributed to fraud in pandemic aid, like the Paycheck Protection Program.

Development programs don’t always work. Rachel Glennerster figures out how and why.

Vox
Rachel Glennerster, economist, is one of Vox's Future Perfect 50. These are the people making the future a better place for everyone.

Economics is more than just theory for Seema Jayachandran — it’s a way to help people

Vox
Seema Jayachandran, economist, is one of Vox's Future Perfect 50. These are the people making the future a better place for everyone.

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak wants to find out what makes antipoverty programs effective

Vox
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, economist, is one of Vox's Future Perfect 50. These are the people making the future a better place for everyone.

The fading American Dream in numbers, and what you can do about it

The fading of the ‘American Dream’–along with similar ideals in other developed nations–reflects a fundamental change in the American economy, argued renowned economist Raj Chetty, in a presentation using big data to pinpoint causes and put forward possible solutions.

Economist Chris Blattman has reshaped our understanding of violence and poverty

Vox
Chris Blattman, economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago, is one of Vox's Future Perfect 50.

The Roots of War

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not. Article adapted from Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Chris Blattman.