Social Sciences

Pramod Varma, Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India's digital identification program, discusses the role of digital public infrastructure in economic...

A new study in Sierra Leone shows that it is possible to get health interventions to remote and under-resourced areas cost-effectively and with good uptake.

A medical care and vaccine delivery project, co-led by Yale’s Mushfiq Mobarak, is expanding into remote, rural parts of the West African nation.

In the new episode of the YDS Quadcast, Martin Jean, director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, discusses the ISM’s past, present, and future.

A new study reveals that in markets where information processing is particularly complex, increased competition can lead companies to capture higher profits.

In a Q&A, Yale economist Pinelopi Goldberg explores the role of population size, trade, and inequality in today’s changing global economy.

In his new book, Ian Shapiro defends the Enlightenment principles of science and reasoned thinking against philosophical assaults from the right and left.

At a recent Jackson School event, journalist Kai Bird and Yale historian Beverly Gage discussed how biographies help tell the story of human history.

In a new paper, Yale anthropologist Lisa Messeri warns of the risks involved in envisioned AI applications for scientific research.

In a Q&A, Samuel Wilkinson discusses the evolutionary forces that spur us to be our altruistic selves and what inspired his fascination with life’s purpose.