The National Science Foundation division that covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the crosshairs.

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

The use of computational methods and tools to deepen our understanding of long-standing questions in the social sciences has been rapidly growing in recent years. This Collection includes manuscripts ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...

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Social science students at Case Western Reserve engage with significant academic resources and research opportunities, leading to fulfilling careers and top graduate school placements. Studying the ...

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Taking a lice-grade comb to press coverage of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign can feel a little like relitigating, but in light of recent news about President Donald Trump, ...

It is no secret that we are influenced by the preferences of others around us. What to watch on TV or even which factual statements to believe can be profoundly shaped by what other people watch or ...

Changes in technology---specifically the transition from the analog age to the digital age---mean that we can now collect and analyze social data in new ways. This six week mini-class is about doing ...