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Dec 23, 2020

Simply giving cash with a few strings attached could be one of the most promising ways to reduce poverty and insecurity in the developing world. Today, over 63 countries have at least one such program. 

And while these policies have been around for a few decades, little is known about how much so-called conditional cash...


Dec 9, 2020

It’s well documented that women earn less than men for doing the same job. But the pay gap is just one way in which women are economically disadvantaged.

In some countries, women cannot work without their husband’s permission. They have restricted access to credit and are effectively penalized for having...


Nov 25, 2020

More and more of the wealth in the richest countries is going to their richest citizens. And there are no signs that it’s stopping.

But how inequality has grown—who it’s affecting and why—has changed significantly over the last four decades, according to a paper in the Fall issue of the Journal of Economic...


Nov 11, 2020

Epidemiology used to be a quiet discipline whose experts were not much used to being in the public eye.  

Then COVID-19 happened. Suddenly, epidemiologists everywhere were being called into service to track the virus and formulate a plan to combat its spread.

But Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray says...


Oct 30, 2020

The GOP has owned the US South, winning a majority of the region’s votes in every presidential election for the past 40 years. But it wasn’t always this way.

The so-called “Solid South” used to vote reliably Democratic. So what happened? Most scholars believe it was backlash to Civil Rights legislation of...