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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 [...]

In 2015, economists Alan Krueger of Princeton University and Lawrence Katz of Harvard University published an influential survey of the so-called gig economy. In it, they concluded that the [...]

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 [...]

Lawrence D. Bobo, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of the department of African American Studies at Harvard University, was recently named Harvard’s Dean of Social [...]

AAPSS Fellow Carol Dweck of Stanford University has been awarded the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award in recognition of her pioneering career in the field of social psychology. Dweck is most known for her [...]

Academy Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, has published a comprehensive examination of Russian influence in the 2016 [...]

On September 13, 2018, Academy Fellow Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University, and colleagues Anthony Greenwald of Washington University and Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, were awarded [...]

Fellow Frank Furstenberg of the University of Pennsylvania is the coauthor of a study that finds that male spouses are just as likely to care for their wives during illness as wives are to care [...]