Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS) header
Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS) profile picture

Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science

@IQSS

Harvard's home for social science research. Links: https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/hYFrRpN3LC

 Cambridge, MA
iq.harvard.edu
Joined May 2009
  • Tweets7.8K
  • Following438
  • Followers6.7K
153Media
Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)Photo by Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)
Thursday at 3pm: Romain Wacziarg of UCLA on migration as an escape valve from Malthusian limits, presenting “Malthusian Migrations” at this week’s Alesina Seminar. iq.harvard.edu/event/romain-… #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicHistory #Migration
121
The Dataverse Project @dataverseorg has a new site! The redesigned dataverse.org is open source and published with GitHub Pages. iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/11/… #Dataverse #OpenSource #OpenScience
Dataverse Project — Open Research, Connected

Dataverse Project — Open Research, Connected

One open-source project. A world of research data repositories.

dataverse.org
1
1
131
After years of decline, bias is rising again. IQSS affiliate Mahzarin Banaji @banaji and co-authors ask what the pandemic had to do with it. insight.kellogg.northwestern… #ImplicitBias #Psychology #Harvard
Are Attitudes Toward Others Taking a U-Turn?

Are Attitudes Toward Others Taking a U-Turn?

Americans’ prejudices had been waning for years, until Covid’s perfect storm hit.

insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu
93
Starting at 1pm: new to the FASRC clusters? This virtual training covers the tools on offer and how to run your workflows on the cluster. rc.fas.harvard.edu/events/ge… #ResearchComputing #HPC #Harvard
FASRC: Getting started on the FASRC clusters (intro)

FASRC: Getting started on the FASRC clusters (intro)

This training is for new FASRC users or anyone wanting to get started using the cluster environments and learn best practices. You will learn about the tools and services and how to design and run …

rc.fas.harvard.edu
174
Wednesday at 12 noon: Qi Zhang presents “Controllable Generative Sandbox for Causal Inference” at this week’s #AppliedStatistics Workshop. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.… #CausalInference #Statistics
183
IQSS affiliate Andrew O'Donohue ( @AOD_PhD) set out to understand why democracies are in danger. The answer led him somewhere he didn’t expect: the courts. iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/10/… #Democracy #Courts #Harvard #PoliticalScience #Government
Image from Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)
164
Friday at 1pm: A two-hour @HarvardCGA workshop introduces spatial analysis in R. Registration required. gis.harvard.edu/event/gettin… #RStats #GIS #SpatialData
2
452
Thursday at 3pm: Dan Mattingly ( @Yale) asks whether pro-CCP messaging in Chinese AI models persuades global audiences, presenting “AI Slopaganda and Its Limits” at the Alesina Seminar. iq.harvard.edu/event/dan-mat… #PoliticalEconomy #AI #China
2
3
793
AI article reviews now beat human peer reviews at their best. A new paper by IQSS director Gary King @kinggary and director of Data Science Services Steven Worthington asks what that should mean for journals. gking.harvard.edu/peerless/ #PeerReview #AI #OpenScience
AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices | Gary...

AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices | Gary...

We show that AI-generated article reviews are now better, by every measure we could construct, than reviews written by well-compensated human experts and judged to be of unusually high quality by...

gking.harvard.edu
168
IQSS affiliate Tomiko Brown-Nagin reflects on eight years leading the Harvard @RadInstitute, as she prepares to leave for Stanford. news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto… #HigherEd #Law #Harvard
Parting words from a scholar who stepped up — Harvard Gazette

Parting words from a scholar who stepped up — Harvard Gazette

Tomiko Brown-Nagin reflects on her work as Radcliffe dean and as leader of high-stakes University initiatives.

news.harvard.edu
197
Wednesday at 12 noon: Abhinandan Dalal presents “Partial Identification of Causal Effects for Endogenous Continuous Treatments” at this week’s #AppliedStatistics Workshop. iq.harvard.edu/event/abhinan… #CausalInference #Statistics
2
3
373
How will the November midterms shake out? IQSS director Gary King (@kinggary), IQSS research associate @DannyCEbanks, and @CalTech professor @Jonathan_N_Katz built an interactive forecast for US Congressional seats on the ballot. gking.harvard.edu/electit/ #Elections #USPolitics
ElectIt: forecasts for all US House and Senate seats in the 11/3/2026 election

ElectIt: forecasts for all US House and Senate seats in the 11/3/2026 election

By Danny Ebanks, Jonathan N. Katz, and Gary King. We make these forecasts (including all data, methods, and procedures) public because academics learn by making themselves vulnerable to being proven...

gking.harvard.edu
1
2
4
322
OpenDP Library v0.16.0 is now available (@opendp_org), with new functionality, expanded documentation and smoother onboarding for new contributors. github.com/opendp/opendp/rel… #DifferentialPrivacy #OpenSource #ResearchData
Release OpenDP 0.16.0 · opendp/opendp

Release OpenDP 0.16.0 · opendp/opendp

CHANGELOG

github.com
1
2
188
Support for single-payer health care is rising. IQSS affiliate David Cutler (@cutler_econ) examines what #MedicareforAll would actually require, writing in @JAMAHealthForum. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… #HealthPolicy #Economics #PublicHealth
Image from Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)
144
IQSS affiliate @BenSchneer finds voters historically respond to the individual candidate, not the name above them on the ballot, but that seems to be changing. hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese… #AmericanPolitics #Elections
Image from Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)
165
What does holding a grudge cost you? Tyler VanderWeele, faculty director of the Human Flourishing Program at IQSS (@HFHarvard), tells @CBSNews how forgiveness has measurable benefits. cbsnews.com/video/letting-go… #Flourishing #Psychology #PublicHealth
Image from Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)
133
Why hasn’t AI triggered mass layoffs? IQSS affiliate Raffaella Sadun (@raffasadun) weighs in on why adopting AI has not yet meant the job losses many predicted. news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto… #AI #FutureOfWork #Harvard
Why AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet — Harvard Gazette

Why AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet — Harvard Gazette

Artificial intelligence can do some jobs already, but experts say CEOs have good reasons to keep humans on the payroll.

news.harvard.edu
1
163
Thursday at 3pm: @AdamBerinsky examines whether LLMs can shift voter attitudes, presenting “Persuasion through the use of human–artificial intelligence dialogues” at this week’s Alesina Seminar. iq.harvard.edu/event/adam-be… #PoliticalEconomy #AI #Elections
Image from Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)
186
US homeownership rates have held steady since 1970. The geography has not. @HarvardCGA researchers Connie Chen, SV Subramanian, and coauthors map growing regional disparities in homeownership and housing growth, 1970–2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.202… #GeographicAnalysis #Housing
Image from Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (@IQSS)
183
Dataverse 6.12 is now available, with new API capabilities, performance and security improvements, and a range of bug fixes. github.com/IQSS/dataverse/re… #Dataverse #ResearchData #OpenData #OpenScience
Release v6.12 · IQSS/dataverse

Release v6.12 · IQSS/dataverse

Dataverse 6.12 Please note: We are investigating an issue (#12724) where we suspect that new installations on PostgreSQL 16 will fail but it works fine on PostgreSQL 17. (Upgrading an existing Data...

github.com
1
3
213
Load more