Archives

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 [...]

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 American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed learned societies, has elected five distinguished scholars and practitioners as 2016 [...]

Underlying many of our nation’s major historical moments is a commitment to equal opportunity for all individuals. Accessibility to opportunity ought not to have anything to do with race, [...]

Eleven research papers published in the September ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Volume 655) examine state policy initiatives such as financing for student [...]

On January 30, 2014, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, in partnership with the Brookings Institution, held a forum to explore the ideas advanced in the November 2013 volume of [...]

Everyone knows the story of President Kennedy describing a White House dinner gathering of 49 American Nobel laureates as “the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that [...]