Our Initiatives
The Tobin Center supports research and policy engagement in seven key economic issue areas:
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Producing world class research to improve the quality, productivity, and fairness of the US health system.
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Pushing the frontier of regulatory economics research to meet the rise of large digital platforms.
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Generating insights on childcare, education systems, and hard-to-attain long-term educational outcomes.
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Studying the impacts that institutions and policies have on economic opportunity, poverty, and inequality.
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Supporting leading work on electric vehicles, climate-resilient infrastructure, biofuel policy, macroeconomic effects of climate change, and carbon taxation.
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Creating the conditions to make it easy for government leaders to incorporate rigorous research into policymaking.
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Engaging in supply chain research in collaboration with MIT and London School of Economics.
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