Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

A small discussion meeting to focus on comparing societies without state governments or before the rise of state governments to societies with state governments. Will also discuss whether historical societies with states were like modern societies with states.

Agenda

Wednesday, April 3

Session 1: 9am-12pm The Human Life Cycle: Childhood and Old Age Barry Hewlett (University of Washington) and Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah

The MIT Political Science Department and The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University are sponsoring a seminar on formal and quantitative political research. The Program on Positive Political Economy (PPE) supports research-related activities that integrate the study of economics and politics, whether by studying "economic" behavior in the political process or "political" behavior in the marketplace.

A small discussion meeting to focus on comparing societies without state governments or before the rise of state governments to societies with state governments. Will also discuss whether historical societies with states were like modern societies with states.

Agenda

Wednesday, April 3

Session 1: 9am-12pm The Human Life Cycle: Childhood and Old Age Barry Hewlett (University of Washington) and Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah

Objective: To bring together econometricians, social statisticians and social network analysts to improve research on the relationship between social interactions and healthy. Additionally, it is expected that meetings will be useful in developing methodology for empirical study of many social interactions, such as the interactions of researchers in producing new scientific discoveries or inventions. Agenda Friday, May 2 9am: Opening Remarks, Charles Manski, Northwestern University

Objective: To bring together econometricians, social statisticians and social network analysts to improve research on the relationship between social interactions and healthy. Additionally, it is expected that meetings will be useful in developing methodology for empirical study of many social interactions, such as the interactions of researchers in producing new scientific discoveries or inventions. Agenda Friday, May 2 9am: Opening Remarks, Charles Manski, Northwestern University

New technologies have changed the way people communicate with each other, and they present new challenges and new opportunities for researchers. This conference will focus on the challenges as well as the opportunities of these new technologies for survey research.