Research

Take a look at the latest research from MIT Economics faculty, including published work and newly-released working papers.

Working Papers

Labor Economics

Expertise

David Autor, Neil Thompson
June 2025

Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit

Marc Rysman, Robert M. Townsend, and Christoph Walsh
June 2025

Books

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It
Health Economics, Public Economics

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What To Do About It

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Ray Fisman
January 2023
Cover of Cooking to Save Your Life with an illustration by Cheyenne Olivier of Abhijit cooking surrounded by others

Cooking to Save Your Life

Abhijit Banerjee
Illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier
November 2021

Published Papers

Linear Regression with Weak Exogeneity

Quantitative Economics
Anna Mikusheva and Mikkel Sølvsten
June 2025
Macroeconomics

Interest Rate Cuts vs. Stimulus Payments: An Equivalence Result

Journal of Political Economy, 133(4)
Christian Wolf
April 2025
Economics Department students and faculty

Labs and Centers

Our faculty and affiliated researchers work across a wide range of disciplines and interest areas, using economic science to help tackle the complex issues surrounding global poverty, health care, education, and more.