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An Annals Launch Event Co-Sponsored by AEI, Brookings, and AAPSS What do we know about the effectiveness of the many social welfare programs that constitute America’s social “safety net”?  How [...]

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power discussed the current state of democracy around the world, the rise of China, and U.S. efforts to promote democracy in a public lecture that she [...]

Watch a video recap of the evening here. On October 3, the AAPSS welcomed five eminent scholars as Fellows of the Academy at its annual gala dinner at the Willard Intercontinental in Washington, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Robert Merton, in 1949, noted that social scientists “have largely neglected the study of their own situation, problems, and behavior …  monographs document the problems and performances of [...]

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 [...]

The Academy mourns the loss of Alan B. Kreuger, 58, who died on March 16, 2019. A Fellow of the Academy since 2004, Kreuger was awarded the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize in 2017. The prize is [...]

A census challenge—George Washington complained about it in 1790—is locating and recording the “hard-to-count.”  The hard-to-count were reliably measured in the 1940s at 5.4 percent.  Operational [...]