Across Africa, distance education has become one of the most powerful forces for expanding access to higher learning. Open ...

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

Three academics, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt, will share the 2025 Nobel Prize for economics for their work on the role of innovation in generating economic expansion. The laureates' ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

The Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference will be held at the University of Chicago on August 11–12, 2025. MLESC brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning ...

We are excited to welcome this year's cohort for the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, which will be held in Chicago, August 7-13, 2025. Applications for the 2025 Institute can be found ...

Economists have developed different types of models describing the interaction of agents in markets. Early models in general equilibrium theory describe agents taking prices as given and do not ...

CNBC’s Steve Liesman and Tanvi Anand, Mt. Hebron High School senior, and Mehin Pandya, Mt. Hebron High School freshman, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss winning this year's National Economics Challenge, ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--High school students who quickly answered tough questions posed to state-championship teams at the Council for Economic Education’s National Economics Challenge (NEC) finals ...

Throughout history, governments have imposed tariffs to protect their domestic industries from foreign competition, with the goal of preserving jobs and promoting local manufacturing and services.

Students at dozens of U.S. high schools participated last month in the first round of an international competition in economics. The top five American students will travel to Olympia, Greece, later ...