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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 [...]

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 [...]

Academy Fellow Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania, will be awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement by the Pennsylvania Society at their annual December dinner. [...]

A new longitudinal study, coauthored by AAPSS Fellow Daniel Nagin and published in JAMA Pediatrics, assessed 920 boys from low-income families to identify which behaviors in kindergarten may be [...]

AAPSS Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s latest book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know, was awarded the 2018 R. R. [...]