MIT, the same institution that produced one of this year's Nobel prize winners in economics, has introduced a new blended "micromasters" program that can help people earn their master's degree in data ...

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are moving to Switzerland to establish a new development economics center ...

In yet another win at the institutions this year, Harvard and MIT today are celebrating the news that three of their researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. Abhijit Banerjee and ...

Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join the University of Zurich in July 2026, leaving MIT to establish a ...

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who are married, will join the Zurich faculty in July, the Swiss school ...

Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

Designing contracts is a tricky business. For their groundbreaking work on how to make contracts fairer and more effective, Oliver Hart of Harvard University and Bengt Holmstrom of the Massachusetts ...

For decades, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has stood as a global beacon of innovation, blending rigorous academics with groundbreaking research. Known for producing leaders in ...

Economists from Harvard and MIT shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday morning. Harvard’s Oliver Hart, a 68-year-old, London-born economics ...

MIT’s Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s offers an affordable, flexible path for aspiring economists. Students complete online MicroMasters courses before an eight-month in-person ...