Frank Schilbach
Behavioral and development economist @MIT studying poverty, sleep, alcohol, pain, mental health, and loneliness
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Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health: Evidence from Hypertension in India
Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health: Evidence from Hypertension in India
Senior psychiatrist Dr Vikram Patel speaks on mental health issues of adolescents
Problem-solving-based counselling delivered by non-specialists can improve an array of stress-inducing problems faced by high school students in India, shows...
Stories from the field: Providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic
MHIN and the World Health Organization Department of Mental Health and Substance Use are collaborating to highlight the incredible efforts of individuals and organisations providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19...
Building Forward with Digital Agriculture | by Michael Kremer & Gilbert F. Houngbo - Project Syndicate
With COVID-19 having made us all more dependent on digital technology than ever before, now is the time to ensure that the revolution does not leave the world's poorest communities further behind. Increasing investment in technologies to help...
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Osea Giuntella
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
"Why Don’t We Sleep Enough? A Field Experiment Among College Students"
(with Mallory Avery and Peiran Jiao)
Poverty and depression: How improving mental health can help economic wellbeing
How do poor mental health and poverty interact, and how can we best ensure access to mental health services?
Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Accounts for 20% of New Cases Globally
New York City allowed offices to reopen, with limits, on Monday. The United Nations General Assembly will conduct its annual meeting virtually for the first time this September.
The Short-run and Long-run Effects of Covid-19 on Energy and the Environment
The short-run effects of Covid-19 in reducing CO2 and local air pollutant emissions
can easily be outweighed by the long-run effects on innovation. In the short-run,
CO2 emissions have declined by 15%, and declines in local air pollutants have...
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MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations
Institute ends negotiations for a new journals contract in the absence of a proposal aligning with the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.
Opportunities for Digital Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rapid Response to COVID-19.
Michael Kremer Gates. Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics, Harvard University. 2019 Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences.
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MIT elects first black woman student body president in its 159-year history
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have elected a black woman as president of the Undergraduate Association for the first time in the school's history.