Two (non-exhaustive) conditions are necessary for knowledge accumulation: unbiasedness and comparability. Research designs should be unbiased so that researchers obtain correct estimates of an underlying quantity. Empirical specifications should permit comparability so that researchers measure...

How has the amount and type of social science research on discrimination changed over time? We address this substantively and normatively important question by conducting automatic text analysis on a large corpus of over 470,000 social science research articles published in 512 academic journals...

This review seeks to present a comprehensive picture of recent discussions in the social sciences of the anticipated impact of AI on the world of work. Issues covered include: technological unemployment, algorithmic management, platform work and the politics of AI work. The review identifies the...

Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse einer Bedarfsanalyse auf dem Feld der Zeitgeschichte vor, die im Rahmen des im Januar 2020 gestarteten DFG-Projektes "Sozialdaten als Quellen der Zeitgeschichte. Erstellung eines Rahmenkonzepts für eine Forschungsdateninfrastruktur in der zeithistorischen...

Um in der Pandemiebekämpfung erfolgreich zu sein, brauchen wir eine Neuaufstellung der Sozialwissenschaften.

There are hundreds and thousands of schools of thought in social science and humanities, while there is only one school of thought in natural science. This paper investigates the question how to unify all schools of thought in social science and humanities into one scientific school of thought...

It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians’ labour market in which we embed the main institutional features of the Italian system. We notice how the presence...

Suppose an agency awards a fixed number of prizes to applicants in different categories such that the applicant-to-winner ratio is constant by category. It is demonstrated in a simple theoretical model that the number of awards in a category will typically be positively related to the degree of...

We address recent skepticism by Chief Justice Roberts about the usefulness of social science tools of analysis in litigation about redistricting. Limiting our discussion to race-related redistricting litigation, we demonstrate that social science methodology has been able to provide reliable...