Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Undergraduate Research Scholars

Working side-by-side with faculty, students contribute to the discovery and development of new tools, methods and knowledge.

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Dataverse Network

The Dataverse Network® repository consists of powerful, open-source, web-based software built on data citation standards and statistical methods.

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Program on Quantitative Methods

This program encompasses a wide variety of projects that actively develop innovative methods and software as a way of building and unifying the methodological subfields now existing separately within most social science disciplines.

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OpenScholar

This project embodies a new paradigm for academic web sites. Create your own dynamic, personal web site easily, for free. Post your writings for citation and distribute them automatically to public indices, manage class materials and blogs, and more.

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Program on Survey Research

PSR serves as a resource for those interested in scientific survey methods and offers a university-wide clearing house for information and expertise in survey design, administration, and analysis.

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Program on Positive Political Economy

This program currently supports research exploring politics and demography; consumption and spending; behavioral economics; international political economy; game theory in negotiations; auctions and herding behavior; and college admissions mechanisms.

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Center for Geographic Analysis

As a designated university-wide technology platform, CGA catalogues and distributes geospatial data and provides training and consultation for researchers utilizing spatial analysis.

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Harvard-MIT Data Center

HMDC manages technology platforms for IQSS on informatics and data sharing, statistical computing, and information technology.

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Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research

The RWJ Scholars in Health Policy Research Program is a two-year, post-doctoral fellowship program for six recent Ph.D.s in political science, sociology, and economics.

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research42

Recent research in psychology and economics has uncovered important, and sometimes surprising, drivers of human behavior. research42 attempts to apply these insights to our understanding of the economic lives of people.

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Boston Data Portal

The Center for Geographic Analysis with the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the IQSS, is building a proof-of-concept system called the Boston Data Portal aimed at providing both government and academic datasets.

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Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers
By Emily Ware, January 25 2012
A recent article in Nature, "Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers," studies in detail the networks of the Hadza hunter-gatherer population, and compares the structural properties of the Hadza network to those found in networks of modernized populations.

Mapping Platform Developed by CGA Lowers the Barriers to Geospatial Collaboration
Submitted by Press Release on January 17, 2012 - 5:18pm
The Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard announces the release of Version 1.0 of WorldMap (http://worldmap.harvard.edu), an open source platform which provides scholars anywhere in the world with the tools to discover, organize, visualize, create, share, and publish geographically referenced information.
OpenScholar New Release
By Emily Ware, November 10 2011
We are delighted to announce several new features that have been added in Scholars at Harvard and Projects at Harvard.

CGA and UNU-IAS Announce Collaboration To Enhance Spatial Dimensions of Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System
Submitted by Press Release on December 15, 2011 - 4:26pm
The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at cooperation and collaboration on advancing technologies for online spatial data sharing and web mapping services regarding the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS).
Be Sure to Check the IQSS Employment Page
By Emily Ware, November 10 2011
IQSS regularly posts a wide range of exciting employment opportunities, both here at Harvard and beyond.

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Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers

Mapping Platform Developed by CGA Lowers the Barriers to Geospatial Collaboration

OpenScholar New Release

CGA and UNU-IAS Announce Collaboration To Enhance Spatial Dimensions of Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System

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Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers

Mapping Platform Developed by CGA Lowers the Barriers to Geospatial Collaboration

OpenScholar New Release

CGA and UNU-IAS Announce Collaboration To Enhance Spatial Dimensions of Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System

Be Sure to Check the IQSS Employment Page

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