Programs, Centers and Projects

Programs

IQSS is home to a number of faculty-led research programs. Connecting investigators from across Harvard and beyond, these programs build collaborative research teams working toward the advancement of knowledge and the solution of human problems. IQSS is proud to offer administrative support, technical tools, and general infrastructure to help make these endeavors possible.

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.

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.

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.

Bibliographic Knowledge Network

The Bibliographic Knowledge Network aims to address three fundamental problems of knowledge management: compartmentalization, navigation, and maintenance.

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 eight recent Ph.D.s in political science, sociology, and economics.

Undergraduate Research Scholars

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

ideas42

Recent research in psychology and economics has uncovered important, and sometimes surprising, drivers of human behavior. ideas42 attempts to apply these insights to our understanding of the economic lives of people.

Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs)

This innovative program led by Professor Roland Fryer applies an R&D model to education as a way to unearth root causes of performance gaps, effectively vet reform options, and replicate solutions that will improve our public schools.

Patent Collaboration Network

The Patent Collaboration Network database is a dataset generated by pulling together data on all patents granted by US Patent and Trademark Office since 1975 in order to represent and analyze social networks among inventors.

Program on Text Research

This program works to foster interdisciplinary research and teaching as it relates to the utilization of textual data within social science research.

A New Architecture for the U. S. National Accounts

Professor Dale Jorgenson’s research project implements a new conceptual framework for the U.S. national accounts by integrating the national income and product accounts, productivity statistics, and financial accounts.

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.
Centers

IQSS serves as the administrative department for several FAS/University-wide centers. These centers are designated by the University as specific resources that provide technology support and data services to faculty, students, and staff. Each center at IQSS stands as an independent intellectual community, composed of faculty members, researchers, field specialists, and a unique steering committee to provide strategic guidance and help set overall direction.

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.

Harvard-MIT Data Center

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

Henry A. Murray Research Archive

The Henry A. Murray Research Archive is the permanent repository for quantitative and qualitative research data at IQSS, and provides physical storage for the IQSS Dataverse Network repository.
Projects

IQSS is committed to active product development, making use of its own resources to better serve the academic community. Projects at IQSS constantly evolve to meet the most pressing needs of our constituents.  We strive continually to invent new and repurpose existing technology, creating easily accessible tools and resources that make faculty, staff, and students more efficient and productive.

Dataverse Network

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

Research Computing Environment

The RCE is a graphical desktop environment with Application menus and windowing features. However, unlike your normal workstation, this environment includes statistical software run on powerful servers capable of handling large data analysis jobs.

Drupal@Harvard

This year IQSS is launching Drupal@Harvard, an initiative to facilitate support to web developers and administrators across the University who currently using or plan to use Drupal for fast website development.

Scholars' Web Sites

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.