Recent Medicaid expansions increased enrollment by 12 percentage points and reduced mortality by 2.5% among low-income adults, saving roughly 27,400 lives for only $5.4 million and $179,000 per life and life-year saved, respectively.

Regions and ethnic groups in Africa with a higher historical prevalence of traditional female political leadership tend to have a higher proportion of elected female representatives in today’s political institutions. Institutional, rather than economic, factors significantly shape the traditional political...

Personalizing policies can substantially improve program performance; in a case involving exercise incentives for individuals with lifestyle-related health conditions, such policies increased the treatment effect of incentives by 80% without increasing program costs.

How is AI impacting the economy today? What might this mean for tomorrow? This episode brings you inside a discussion hosted at BFI in April. Moderated by Caroline Grossman, Executive Director of the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, the...