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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Academy is pleased to announce that former ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize.  She will deliver [...]

On October 15, 2018, Professor Dorothy E. Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania was inducted to the National Academy of Medicine after being elected in 2017. Roberts is a Penn Integrates [...]

On July 19, the Academy joined the Brookings Institution for an event marking the publication of the July 2018 volume of THE ANNALS, Evidence-Based Social Policy: The Promise and Challenges of a [...]