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Prepared by lead researchers in guaranteed income and cash transfer policy worldwide at the Jain Family Institute.
Mar 23, 2020
Laura Beamer, Lead Researcher on Higher Ed Finance, speaks with Yahoo! Finance on the findings of our first report on higher ed access throughout the U.S.
Feb 19, 2020
Outcome and JFI form an exclusive partnership to spearhead a new phase of growth for the income share agreement market and the students it serves.
Feb 6, 2020
JFI and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing are hosting a workshop this April on the ethics of algorithms.
Jan 31, 2020
JFI Project Lead on Higher Ed, Laura Beamer, comments on higher education desserts and our newest research findings in USA Today.
Jan 27, 2020
JFI's Guaranteed Income Project Lead, Stephen Nuñez, produced an illuminating blog on Phenomenal World, explaining the JFI-supported macroeconomic model of UBI in NYC.
Jan 22, 2020
JFI-supported research by Jack Favilukis, Khalil Esmkhani, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the first attempt to model UBI at a city-level, in New York City, and finds positive welfare impacts.
Jan 17, 2020
A new working paper of JFI-supported research simulates a city-level UBI policy implemented in NYC finds multiple, positive welfare impacts.
Jan 17, 2020
An in-depth look at the Maricá basic income policy & its early effects, implications.
Jan 15, 2020
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's cash transfer experiment and the larger picture of UBI research from JFI CEO Michael Stynes
Jan 14, 2020
Higher Ed Finance Project Lead Laura Beamer and Senior Fellow Marshall Steinbaum speak with Inside Higher Ed on the implications of their recently-released map and write-up that tracks higher ed access throughout the US & its territories.
Dec 20, 2019
More coverage of our recently-released research on "The Geography of Higher Ed" by Education Dive, with commentary on free-college proposals, the role of for-profits, and online options.
Dec 20, 2019
Preliminary results from JFI's ongoing study of access to higher education in the US.
Dec 18, 2019
A new interactive map shows U.S. higher education access, including enrollment, concentration, and schools by ZIP code, and indicates disparity in access by economic and geographic boundaries.
Dec 18, 2019
Steve and Paul wrote for Global Americans with our partner Fábio Waltenberg of UFF, on lessons for UBI research from Maricá.
Dec 13, 2019
Stynes describes how Finland's basic income trial was hamstrung from success.
Dec 8, 2019
Columbia Economist Suresh Naidu presented upcoming research on labor market power at a JFI Research Session.
Dec 6, 2019
Stephen Nuñez spoke to El Pais on our basic income research in Maricá, Brazil.
Nov 25, 2019
Doug Webber, Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University, joined us for a JFI Research Session to share the results of his recent work.
Nov 22, 2019
JFI CEO Michael Stynes and Guaranteed Income Project Lead Stephen Nuñez discussed our research in Maricá on unconditional cash transfers for over 50,000 people.
Nov 21, 2019
Dubravka Ritter of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia presented two papers at a JFI Research Session this November.
Nov 20, 2019
Harvard Environmental Fellow and political theorist Alyssa Battistoni presented on her new book, "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal."
Nov 15, 2019
JFI's Project Lead on Guaranteed Income, Stephen Nuñez, provides testimony to the Committee on Civil Service & Labor at New York City Council, providing insights on fears of automation and research on basic income
Nov 13, 2019
JFI Digital Ethics Project Lead, Arden Ali, and JFI Research Fellow Michael Pizzi participate in UN Global Pulse discussions on human rights and AI.
Nov 13, 2019
Johannes Haushofer presented at a JFI Research Session on Friday, Nov. 8th, about new cash transfer research
Nov 8, 2019
Aria Bendix from Business Insider speaks with JFI researchers about our research on the Maricá basic income policy.
Nov 6, 2019
Dylan Matthews contextualizes Maricá's new basic income policy
Oct 31, 2019
Research partnership between Maricá, the Jain Family Institute (JFI), the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and the Euclides da Cunha Foundation (FEC) to study the effects of a citywide unconditional cash transfer policy in Maricá, Brazil
Oct 30, 2019
The discussion centered on the state of research and evidence for UBI
Sep 25, 2019
JFI's inaugural six-part seminar
Sep 4, 2019
The August 2019 cover story of the Communications of the ACM is co-authored by JFI fellows David Gray Grant and Lily Hu
Jul 29, 2019
Lauren Burns-Coady in conversation with Ameya Pawar and Ebony Scott
Jun 19, 2019
Lauren Burns-Coady, Sidhya Balakrishnan, and Sara Constantino present on the role of pilots in cash transfer research
Jun 18, 2019
Results from focus groups on higher education financing
Jun 10, 2019
Nyandoro and Black discussed the Magnolia Mother's Trust
May 31, 2019
Director of Research Sidhya Balakrishnan lends her expertise to a discussion of the Alaska Permanent Fund's disbursement schedule
May 11, 2019
The site is a Harvard Kennedy School capstone project created in partnership with JFI
Apr 26, 2019
JFI contributed to the report’s section on basic income pilots
Feb 7, 2019
JFI quoted in “American Education and the Rise of Philanthropic Capital”
Jan 18, 2019
New details on Stockton, California’s guaranteed income demonstration
Dec 20, 2018
A JFI paper on higher ed finance and ISAs
Nov 3, 2018
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