Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Sabina Alkire on Measuring Poverty
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.
Overcoming the Politics and Economics of Social and Economic Fragmentation in the Name of Kids
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?
Stories of Research to Reality: Michael Reisch
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.
Public Finance Review’s Special Issue: Analyzing the Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Latin America
While Latin America is taking in more tax revenue cumulatively than it did twenty years ago, the International Business Times reported in […]
Poverty Action Lab and Its Leaders Honored by SSRC
Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social Science Research […]
Eradicating Acute Poverty via UN Human Rights Machinery
How do we continue to move towards a human rights culture?
The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting
The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.
Property Crime, Violence and Recession
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.
