How sectoral employment training can advance economic mobility for workers who face barriers to employment

J-PAL North America publication highlights the promise of sectoral employment programs in combating US wage inequality.

Jamie Simonson | J-PAL North America • mit
Feb. 23, 2022 ~6 min

Why the cost of mitigating climate change can't be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists' best attempts

Human behaviors shift. Policies change. New technology arrives and evolves. All those changes and more are hard to predict, and they affect tomorrow’s costs.

Matthew E. Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • conversation
Feb. 22, 2022 ~8 min


Here's how far people want the government to limit their freedoms for the sake of the planet -- new research

Research shows people want government to restrict excess consumption through regulations, not just to rely on citizens to make better choices.

Noel Flay Cass, Research Fellow in Energy Demand Behaviour, University of Leeds • conversation
Feb. 17, 2022 ~8 min

Expanded Child Tax Credit didn’t cut labor force

"The research indicates that providing parents with financial support for their children is not leading them to forgo employment income altogether."

Neil Schoenherr-WUSTL • futurity
Feb. 4, 2022 ~5 min

An energy revolution is possible – but only if leaders get imaginative about how to fund it

Providing government subsidies for emerging clean technologies could unlock their transformative potential.

Michael Grubb, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, UCL • conversation
Jan. 19, 2022 ~5 min

Pricing carbon, valuing people

New research suggests ways to optimize US climate policy design for a just energy transition.

Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
Jan. 12, 2022 ~6 min

Scarcity may not drive demand for vaccines

The initial supply of COVID-19 vaccines was limited. It seemed like an opportunity to test if vaccine scarcity drives demand.

Rachel Cramer-Iowa State • futurity
Dec. 29, 2021 ~7 min

A “big push” to lift people out of poverty

MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 22, 2021 ~7 min


NFT explosion: Why are people buying digital art?

Built on the same technology as Bitcoin, NFTs have been a hot topic in 2021. Let experts explain the technology's wild rise.

U. Zurich • futurity
Dec. 15, 2021 ~11 min

GDP ignores the environment: why it's time for a more sustainable growth metric

Radical new thinking is required to fight climate change, and ‘gross ecosystem product’ might help.

Stephen Onakuse, Senior Lecturer, Department of Food Business and Development, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, University College Cork • conversation
Dec. 13, 2021 ~6 min

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