Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training centers are four times more likely to access valued skilling opp
In 2021 the Saami Council asked Harvard to suspend research related to stratospheric aerosol injections, a form of geoengineering.
How has slavery shaped the politics of the United States over the last century and a half since emancipation?
The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal reasoning can LLMs perform?
Wub-e-ke-niew’s enormously unsettling book We Have the Right to Exist presents a version of indigenous philosophical thought as an alternative way of being human in the world that creates profound ins
Are application hassles, or “ordeals,” an effective way to limit public program enrollment?
Everyone from Mitt Romney to Barack Obama to Hilary Clinton to Marco Rubio to Donald Trump has voiced support for the idea that we should make green cards more easily available to foreign-born STEM gr
The field of fair machine learning aims to ensure that decisions guided by algorithms are equitable. Over the last decade, several formal, mathematical definitions of fairness have gained prominence.
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.
Cost of borrowing will probably stay elevated for foreseeable future, making it harder for governments to service debts.
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