Last year Social Science Space presented more than 200 articles on the impact, infrastructure and industry surrounding social and behavioral science and research. Looking back over those articles, we’ve chosen a few of special merit. Social Science Space plans to continue to provide the latest that the new year has to offer. Stay up to date with us to see what is in store.
Economist Sabina Alkire has spent her career looking at all the things beyond just a lack of money that make us poor. In this Social Science Bites podcast, the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative explains the need for a consistent and reputable means of measuring poverty over time.
The Social Security Administration has shown its ability to cut monthly checks for elderly, survivors and disabled. So why not for kids via their parents?
Historian and social justice professor Michael Reisch used the example of the case of Freddie Gray in his own home of Baltimore to show how much social science could add to examinations of poverty.
While Latin America is taking in more tax revenue cumulatively than it did twenty years ago, the International Business Times […]
Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social […]
How do we continue to move towards a human rights culture?
The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.
There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.
Much destruction of human potential takes the form of a “slow violence” that extends over time. It is insidious, undramatic and relatively invisible.
A new report by Community Links and the Refugee Council examines the causes of informal economic activity within refugee communities […]
The Royal Geographical Society is proud to announce that they will be hosting an event at part of the not-for-profit discussion […]
