Social Sciences

Yale health economist Zack Cooper has received a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support data-driven research on pharmaceutical pricing.

Professors Amy Hungerford and Alan Gerber have been reappointed as the deans of humanities and social sciences. Both terms are for five years, effective July 1.

Yale political scientist Isabela Mares and her co-author have documented the first proof of electoral clientelism in a European Union state.

Nobel laureate James Rothman has been named a fellow of the Royal Society, an honor bestowed to scientists in the United Kingdom and select foreign members.

Medical sociologist Alka Menon’s work looks at international attitudes toward cosmetic surgery as a way to examine multiculturalism and its effects.

There are legitimate reasons to keep the Electoral College, but we must accept that it does have deep roots in efforts by the founders to accommodate slavery.

In the wake of Russian hacking and trolling, Yale’s Sarah Bush is examining how America’s voter confidence squares up with nations like Georgia and Tunisia.

401(k)s are terrible at ensuring that those who need to save for retirement do. The obvious solution is a strengthened Social Security system.

Yale sociologist Rene Almeling was recently recognized with a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Yale’s When We Talk About Animals podcast hosts Christakis, the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social & Natural Science, to discuss his new book and more.