Research

Treating Science as Politics Does No One Any Favors
Communication
March 17, 2015

Treating Science as Politics Does No One Any Favors

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Rethinking Our Responses to Terrorism
PIBBS
March 17, 2015

Rethinking Our Responses to Terrorism

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Is It Time to Say Goodbye to a Fickle Friend, the P Value?
Research
March 11, 2015

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to a Fickle Friend, the P Value?

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Reconsidering Social Enterprise as an Alternative to Convention
Public Policy
March 10, 2015

Reconsidering Social Enterprise as an Alternative to Convention

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Round-up of Social Science Research

Round-up of Social Science Research

The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 800 journals. The articles linked below are free […]

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Focusing on Average Treatment Impacts May Underestimate Program Impacts

Focusing on Average Treatment Impacts May Underestimate Program Impacts

When impacts vary from one subgroup to another, then focusing on average treatment effects may underestimate the impacts, according to a recent article by Bradford Chaney.

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Taking a Stick to Ethics Boards

Taking a Stick to Ethics Boards

Writing about her experiences in Australia, Gigi Foster wonders if ethics boards are more interested in ticking the necessary boxes and not upholding the standards that supposedly underlie the boards’ existence.

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Picking a Descriptor Also Picks a Gender

Picking a Descriptor Also Picks a Gender

A recent data-mapping project reveals that women professors are consistently more likely to be described as feisty, bossy, aggressive, shrill, condescending, rude — and nice.

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25 Years of ‘Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’

25 Years of ‘Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’

Allan Bloom has claimed there are no classics in the social sciences, but the editors of a special collection of essays on the impact of Gøsta Esping-Andersen’s book ‘The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’ on its 25th birthday suggest that in fact this book shows Bloom was mistaken.

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Hope for the Common Good

Hope for the Common Good

Recent research suggests that the so-called Golden Rule of ‘doing unto others …’ may have resonance in enhancing the public good.

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If Only MOOCs Could Add an eHarmony Component

If Only MOOCs Could Add an eHarmony Component

We go to school for an education, not a mate. But if you don’t find a mate at school, you are not getting as much return out of the experience as you can. Which brings us, in a new Danish study, to one issue with online classes …

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Fixing the ‘Leaky Pipeline’ of Women in Science and Math

Fixing the ‘Leaky Pipeline’ of Women in Science and Math

There are ways to patch the pipeline that sees women drain out of STEM fields in university and on the job, but it will take some effort to dismantle structural barriers first.

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