The Future of International Aid: A Conversation Between Dean Karlan and Nicholas Kristof
The consequences of dismantling one of the world’s largest aid agencies are being felt the world over. What happens now?
The consequences of dismantling one of the world’s largest aid agencies are being felt the world over. What happens now?
Across the United Nations, researchers and practitioners are building behaviorally informed technologies that can address humanitarian challenges in new ways.
Attempts to improve governance in the world’s most troubled states have failed because they’ve been based on the rational design of formal institutions rather than the behavioral logic of the individuals that work inside them.
More work in the Global South means more opportunities to learn to address the systems-level challenges that often lie at the root of our most pressing problems.
Cash-transfer programs have already been proven to alleviate poverty. With behaviorally informed customization, their positive impact can go even further.
The question that has been strenuously debated is whether slavery, integral to commerce during colonial times, was also central to the acceleration of national economic growth during the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for June 2021.
A special collection of 15 dispatches showcasing the work of behavioral scientists around the globe as they battle the coronavirus.
In 1755, an earthquake in Lisbon forever changed the way we think about our place in the world and our obligation to others suffering, even in countries far away.
Developing countries have faced hard challenges in confronting coronavirus. Lacking trust in government could help explain why.