Compared to native-born American citizens, immigrants are more frequently involved in founding companies at all scales. Immigrants to the United States are more likely to…
Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people still live without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which…
U.S. civilian, military populations combine for more than $230 billion in annual costs. A new study finds that the national economic burden of PTSD goes…
Clinic and hospital drug spending increased due to higher usage and new drugs; price increases remained below inflation. The COVID-19 treatment remdesivir dominated hospital drug…
High prices, low value — Two new composite scores from West Health and Gallup illustrate America’s healthcare cost crisis. An estimated 112 million (44%) American…
Findings suggested new approach needed to aid the unemployed. More than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arrested…
Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future. In collaboration with a…
Tens of billions spent on habitat and surveillance would avoid trillions of annual costs. We can pay now or pay far more later. That’s the…
To Keep or Not To Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions? New research suggests that people may not always want help with sticking to their New…
A program within MIT Corporate Relations has become the largest university-based platform for startups to connect with corporations. Most successful entrepreneurs know it is not…
Lockdowns during early pandemic saved lives, but not a go-to strategy moving forward. The U.S. pandemic lockdown in 2020 caused a $2.3 trillion economic downturn…
The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to Piyush Mehta, assistant professor of…
Reasserting U.S. Leadership in Microelectronics MIT researchers lay out a strategy for how universities can help the U.S. regain its place as a semiconductor superpower….
New research suggests ways to optimize US climate policy design for a just energy transition. In November, inflation hit a 39-year high in the United…
Researchers analyze the economic cost of disruptions to a critical transportation network in Virginia, including a hurricane evacuation. The shutdown of the Colonial gas pipeline…
A quiet months-long legal fight between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and drugmaker Moderna over COVID-19 vaccine patents recently burst into public view. The…
New research reveals the economic costs of behavioral responses to the pandemic in the U.S. Throughout its unsteady course, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the…
MIT economist’s new research shows U.S. locales hammered by open trade with China have not rebounded, even a decade or more later. In 2001, the…
