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		MIT News: In health care, does "hotspotting" make patients better? A study led by Amy Finkelstein finds that the health care practice of "hotspotting," or the attempt to reduce medical spending while improving care for select high-cost patients, has no significant impact on patient outcomes.

		MIT Tech Review: The productive career of Robert Solow An in depth look at Nobel laureate Robert Solow's career, his legacy as a mentor, and his impact on MIT's Department of Economics.

		Amy Finkelstein's recent work offers new health insurance insights A recent study by Amy Finkelstein, John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, and two co-authors looks at how patients and health care providers value Medicaid.

		Michael Stepner wins the 2020 John Heinz Dissertation Award Stepner's dissertation, "Essays on Health and Social Insurance," was selected by the National Academy of Social Insurance. Ezra Golberstein, Chair of the 2020 Heinz Dissertation Award Committee, said of this honor, "His work advances the theory of optimal design of social insurance benefits, and his quantitative analyses deliver convincing and policy-relevant evidence of the effects of both public and private insurance benefits for health and disability." Congratulations, Michael!

		Financial Times: Esther Duflo is a game changer The Financial Times profiles Esther Duflo as one of their Women in 2019: Game Changers, citing her work transforming development economics and the economics profession.

		3 Questions: Jonathan Gruber on academics engaging with policymakers Jonathan Gruber, Ford Professor of Economics, discusses the MIT Policy Lab's successes in translating research findings for general public and policymaker audiences. The Policy Lab also helps foster the connections between MIT faculty and government policymakers.

		Nikhil Agarwal's work to improve kidney transplant exchanges is in the spotlight! MIT faculty member Nikhil Agarwal is advancing economic science and medical policy with his empirical research on programs to match kidney transplant patients with available organs. His work suggests that changes in the operation of live donor organ exchanges could increase the number of matches by as much as 30 to 60 percent.

		MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee win Nobel Prize Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT economists whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and relief efforts, have been named co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with another co-winner, Harvard University economist Michael Kremer.

		Science News names Parag Pathak to the SN10 top young scientists Parag Pathak, the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics at MIT, has been named by Science News as one of 10 early- and mid-career scientists with great potential to shape the future of their field. Each scientist included in the "SN10" is under 40 and was nominated by a Nobel laureate, a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, or a scientist previously named to the "SN10" list.

		The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty New book by Daron Acemoglu, MIT Economics's Institute Professor, and James A. Robinson, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, published today by Penguin Random House. According to the publisher, 'The Narrow Corridor' is "a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others�and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats."

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