Demography

Webinar: Braving the Storm – How Climate Change Will Affect How and Where We Live
Event
November 30, 2021

Webinar: Braving the Storm – How Climate Change Will Affect How and Where We Live

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Why Social Science? Because Institutional Racism Exacerbates our Health and Economic Challenges
Impact
April 22, 2020

Why Social Science? Because Institutional Racism Exacerbates our Health and Economic Challenges

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

How Prisoners, Soldiers and Missionaries Complicate the Census

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COVID, the Census, and the Looming University Undercount
Census
March 24, 2020

COVID, the Census, and the Looming University Undercount

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Democracy Threatened When Census Undercounts Populations

Democracy Threatened When Census Undercounts Populations

The 2020 U.S. Census is still two years away, but experts and civil rights groups are already disputing the results. Professor Emily Merchant’s research on the international history of demography demonstrates that the question of how to equitably count the population is not new, nor is it unique to the United States.

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The September Issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is Now Online!

The September Issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is Now Online!

The September issue of Administrative Science Quarterly is now available and can be read online for free for the next 30 days. […]

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Sarah Harper on the Population Challenge for the 21st Century

Sarah Harper on the Population Challenge for the 21st Century

Around the world, populations are growing older. But is that because people are living longer? Or could it be that there are fewer younger people to dilute the demographic pool? And what about aging itself — when exactly is ‘old’ these days?

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The ‘Big Tent’ of Population Studies

The ‘Big Tent’ of Population Studies

The Population Association of America has joined the family of Social Science Space partners this summer, and to mark that we spoke with the president of the PAA, Johns Hopkins economist Robert Moffitt.

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Whose Jobs Are These?

Whose Jobs Are These?

In firms with more female managers, are newly created jobs more likely to be filled by men or by women? Lisa E. […]

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Why Social Science Education is as Important as STEM…

Why Social Science Education is as Important as STEM…

A recent Ipsos-Mori survey reveals the crucial role that social science has to play in modern democracy, a role which is frequently sabotaged.

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Making Sense of Crime Trends

Making Sense of Crime Trends

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of ‘crime’. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.

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