Social Sciences

News articles classified as Social Sciences

King Center on Global Development —

Researchers fill global migration data gaps

What if mobility across borders were aligned with temporary and seasonal work demands, and leveraged rather than discouraged?

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Search engine ads add value

Are search engine ads just intrusive and scammy? Or do they provide real value to consumers? The questions demand data, Navdeep Sahni says – and now he has it.

Stanford Engineering —

How humans learn to read

Researchers know a lot about the decoding process and how to teach it. Understanding how comprehension works is a lot more challenging.

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research —

Stanford summit tackles pivotal economic issues

The 20th SIEPR Economic Summit brought more than 500 leaders in business, academia, and government to campus to discuss and debate implications of AI, EVs, inflation, big city woes, and more.

Stanford celebrates 13 women’s history makers

Stanford celebrates the pioneering spirit that has been part of the university’s legacy since its inception, with a look at women who made history in medicine, math, athletics, business, law, economics, administration, public service and space.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Immigrant inventors are catalysts for creativity

Immigrants are known to make outsized contributions to American innovation. Research shows they make their native-born collaborators more productive as well.

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research —

‘Geoeconomics’ makes sense of a turbulent world

A new paper by Stanford economist Matteo Maggiori offers a framework for understanding how economic power is used to achieve geopolitical goals.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Expanding access to health care after prison

People who have spent time in jail or prison often can’t get quality, affordable medical care. Two GSB grads are working to fix that.

Stanford Engineering —

Rule makers, rule breakers

Michele Gelfand explains how the concept of “tight” and “loose” cultures plays out in global affairs, national politics, and your own household.

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law —

‘This is a war of autocracies and democracies’

The world has grown too comfortable believing Ukraine can prevail without ongoing support, Ukrainian leaders told a Stanford audience last week.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

5 tips for fixing friction at work

Instead of adding another meeting, say Robert Sutton and Hayagreeva Rao, try cutting one in half instead.

Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences —

The immigration debate has a mental health toll

Anxiety and depression among Latino groups in the United States have risen during times of heightened enforcement and policy tug-of-war, new research shows.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

David Brooks on vulnerability and connection

“If you hide yourself from the emotional intimacies of life,” the author says on the GSB’s Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast, “you’re hiding yourself from life itself.”

Stanford Report —

Staying ahead of inflation in 2024

Economist John Taylor spoke with Stanford Report about the economic trends he’s paying attention to in the year ahead.

Stanford Report —

How political parties have changed over time

A number of factors have led to political parties getting weaker. Stanford political scientist Didi Kuo explains why and what implications this could have for 2024 and beyond.

Stanford Report —

8 ways Gen Z will change the workforce

Soon there will be more Zoomers working full time than Baby Boomers. Roberta Katz explains how their values and expectations will shape the future of work.

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research —

The far reach of tax laws

New research from SIEPR’s Rebecca Lester shows how tax policies whose primary purpose is to achieve some result at home can have unintended effects around the world.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Hardwired for hierarchy

If we want to change power structures, Deborah Gruenfeld says, we need to understand the animal forces that drive our behavior.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Public policies that reach the right people

Machine learning algorithms have proven especially good at burrowing into data collected in the field and unearthing new details on not only how interventions work, but for whom.

Hoover Institution —

Investing in excellence

Peter Blair Henry is tackling underrepresentation in economics one student at a time – and showing that a small-scale program can impact the profession’s pipeline.

Clayman Institute for Gender Research —

The pace of progress

Thirty years after her testimony brought sexual misconduct into the national spotlight, Anita Hill describes the pursuit of equality as “not a sprint or a marathon, but a relay race.”

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Zooming out: Why face-to-face meetings matter

If we want to generate better ideas, Jonathan Levav argues, we need to get people back to the office and into face-to-face meetings.

STANFORD magazine —

Take the ‘ack’ out of feedback

Management lecturer David Dodson has a six-step framework for delivering constructive criticism that lands the way you want it to.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

What free apps are really worth

How much would someone have to pay you to stop using Facebook? An experiment to quantify what digital goods could add to the GDP found trillions in uncounted value.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Using game theory to fight deforestation

Would community cooperation promote sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia? GSB researchers built a game theory model to test the premise.