Boston Globe reporter Jack Newsham writes about Jean Tirole, the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics and an MIT alumnus. Tirole, who holds the title of visiting professor at MIT, was honored for his studies of market power and regulation.
Associated Press reporters Karl Ritter and Nathalie Rothchild write about Jean Tirole, an MIT alumnus and former faculty member who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics. "What’s been great about much of Jean’s work is that he’ll start with a problem that people are struggling with,” said Professor Nancy Rose of Tirole’s work.
Bloomberg News writes about the work of Jean Tirole, an MIT alumnus who was the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics. His work is the “foundation for much of the incentive regulations that have been adopted over the last 25 years across the world,” said MIT Professor Nancy Rose.
Sharon Crowley of Fox News reports on the new study co-authored by MIT economist Dr. Sara Ellison on diversity in the workplace. The study found that while diverse workplaces are more productive, workers are happier in single-sex offices.
In a piece published by The Huffington Post, Chad Brooks writes about a new study co-authored by Dr. Sara Ellison, which found that increasing gender diversity in the workplace can make businesses more productive. “Despite the improved production, individual employees may prefer a less diverse setting,” writes Brooks of the study’s findings.
Zeninjor Enwemeka of WBUR writes about a new study examining diversity in the workplace by MIT economist Dr. Sara Ellison. The study found that while many workers actually prefer a homogenous workplace, shifting to an office evenly split along gender lines could increase revenue.
Boston Globe reporter Katie Johnston writes about a new MIT study showing that while employees are happier when they work with people of the same sex, single-sex workplaces aren’t nearly as productive. Employees “liked the idea of diversity more than they liked actual diversity,” says Dr. Sara Ellison, co-author of the study.
Professor Simon Johnson writes for The Guardian that relaxing some immigration constraints could help to reduce unemployment in the U.S. “[S]ome categories of immigrants tend to create jobs, so letting them in would directly increase employment opportunities for people already in the United States,” explains Johnson.
Cari Romm of The Atlantic writes about a new draft paper co-authored by MIT Professor Heidi Williams examining infant mortality rates in the U.S. Researchers found that part of the reason for the higher infant mortality rate in the U.S. is that “American babies are mostly fine while they’re in the hospital and during their first days at home—but over time, that changes.”
In a piece for Forbes, John C. Goodman writes about a new study co-authored by MIT Professor Heidi Williams that examines why the U.S. infant mortality rate is about twice that of other developed countries. The researchers found that “the US postneonatal disadvantage is driven almost entirely by excess mortality among individuals of lower socioeconomic status.”
Professor Otto Scharmer writes for The Guardian about potential ways to modernize the 21st century economic system to more effectively create well being for everyone. “The most important driving force lies in our outdated paradigms of economic thought, which continue to represent a blind spot to measuring wellbeing,” writes Scharmer.
Margot Sanger-Katz cites research by Professor Jonathan Gruber in this New York Times article on rising health insurance premiums. Gruber’s findings indicate that prior to the Affordable Care Act, premiums rose at higher average rates for individuals than they have since the legislation went into effect
Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes about research by Professor David Autor on the impact of technology on the workforce presented at this year’s Jackson Hole Federal Reserve Symposium. Autor argues that artificial intelligence still struggles to perform tasks that require flexibility, judgment and common sense.
Shawn Donnan of the Financial Times writes about a new MIT study examining gossip. Prof. Abhijit Banerjee explains that the study shows, “your sense of who is the office gossip is generally very good and that if you want to spread information you should do it by that person.”
In a piece for The New York Times about poverty in America, Thomas B. Edsall highlights Professor David Autor’s work examining unemployment rates of American men. Autor and graduate student Melanie Wasserman found that for boys, “growing up in a single-parent home appears to significantly decrease the probability of college attendance.”