Archives for March, 2020

How Prisoners, Soldiers and Missionaries Complicate the Census
Census
March 31, 2020

How Prisoners, Soldiers and Missionaries Complicate the Census

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Frances Perkins Was Ready!
Insights
March 31, 2020

Frances Perkins Was Ready!

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Lessons From a Coronavirus Symptom-Tracking App (That’s Free)
Resources
March 30, 2020

Lessons From a Coronavirus Symptom-Tracking App (That’s Free)

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Why Call It ‘Social Distancing’? We Need Social Connection More Than Ever
International Debate
March 27, 2020

Why Call It ‘Social Distancing’? We Need Social Connection More Than Ever

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Evaluation Implications of the Coronavirus Emergency

Evaluation Implications of the Coronavirus Emergency

Michael Quinn Patton, a giant in the field of evaluation, has been getting queries from colleagues young and old, novice evaluators and long-time practitioners, asking how he’s making sense of the global health emergency and what I think the implications may be for evaluation. Her’s his take on where we are and what it means.

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Transportation Research Board Seeks Content on Transport and COVID

Transportation Research Board Seeks Content on Transport and COVID

Having already released a curated collection of existing conbtent relating to the nexus of pandemics and transportation, the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board is looking for other sources of useful information outside of academic journals.

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Coronavirus Crisis Putting UK Nudging to the Test

Coronavirus Crisis Putting UK Nudging to the Test

If the promises of behavioral science can be believed, the UK government’s use of it would potentially minimize economic disruption while still tackling the crisis. This is because, in theory, behavioral science can achieve desirable behaviors without significantly impacting other day-to-day activities. However, the question is whether in practice behavioral science is helping to mitigate disaster.

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COVID, the Census, and the Looming University Undercount

COVID, the Census, and the Looming University Undercount

Counties with large universities depend heavily on student responses to the decennial census, because the census counts determine the levels of federal funding communities receive. And if those students are counted as being there …?

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Behavior Changed, Yes, But Only After COVID Was At Doorstep

Behavior Changed, Yes, But Only After COVID Was At Doorstep

Research explains the relatively late behavioral reaction to the information of COVID-19 in Europe, writes Joan Costa-Font

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AAPSS Awards Economist William Nordhaus 2020 Moynihan Prize

AAPSS Awards Economist William Nordhaus 2020 Moynihan Prize

William Nordhaus, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who was the first macroeconomist to seriously consider how climate can be influenced by human behavior and that human action and economic policy can influence climate, will receive the 2020 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize.

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The Best Laid Plans… Qualitative Research Design During COVID-19

The Best Laid Plans… Qualitative Research Design During COVID-19

In this moment of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas of emergent design and researcher and design responsiveness take on new meaning and import; they can serve, methods expert Sharon Ravitch argues, to connect more traditional qualitative methods with participatory frameworks and critical and humanizing methodologies.

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LSE Impact: Social Science in a Time of Social Distancing

LSE Impact: Social Science in a Time of Social Distancing

Social science, argues Michael Taster of the LSE Impact blog, has an important role to play, by directly contributing to policy surrounding COVID-19 and its impacts, but also by acting as a critical friend, which raises the urgent question: how can this wealth of knowledge and expertise best be communicated?

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