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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 [...]

Former AAPSS Board Chair Heidi Hartmann, the Academy’s 2014 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fellow, recently announced that she is stepping down as president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research [...]

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, DC, with more than 150 guests in [...]

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 [...]