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Esther Duflo, the AAPSS 2016 Sir Arthur Lewis Fellow whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and relief efforts, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She [...]

Joan Petersilia, the 2018 AAPSS Thorsten Sellin Fellow, died of ovarian cancer on September 23 at the age of 68. Over her extraordinary 40-year career, she studied the performance of U.S. [...]

For the past eleven years, the Wisconsin Poverty Project has addressed the question of whether families in the state have the income necessary to meet their basic needs. This year’s report, [...]

Alejandro Portes, the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Princeton University and an AAPSS Fellow, is the recipient of the 2019 Princess of Asturias [...]

New research published in the Journal of Health Economics investigates the effect of minimum legal sale laws for e-cigarettes on prenatal cigarette smoking and birth outcomes for underage rural [...]

AAPSS Executive Director Tom Kecskemethy recently provided an answer to the question “Why social science?” in the blog series of the same name produced by the Consortium of Social [...]

In the years before Academy Fellow Alan Krueger’s death this March, the Princeton economist immersed himself in the financial workings of the music business. How does a song become popular? How [...]

From 1962 to 1967, the Perry Preschool Project provided an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African American children in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The experiment, led by [...]

Alice Rivlin, an Academy Fellow since 2001 and first recipient of the AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize in 2008, passed away on May 14, 2019, at the age of 88. Dr. Rivlin, an economist, was a [...]

AAPSS Fellow Howard Gardner, a professor in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, is widely known for his theory of multiple intelligences. Since 2012, however, Gardner has been conducting a [...]