Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Friday at 1pm: A two-hour @HarvardCGA workshop introduces spatial analysis in R. Registration required. gis.harvard.edu/event/gettin… #RStats #GIS #SpatialData

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of 435 congressional seats, only about 30 to 35 are genuinely competitive. IQSS affiliate Kosuke Imai tells @HarvardGSAS how gerrymandering and residential sorting are narrowing the 2026 midterm map. gsas.harvard.edu/news/how-mu… #Gerrymandering #AmericanPolitics #PoliticalScience

Can a written “constitution” keep bias out of AI? At a recent @BKCHarvard discussion. IQSS affiliate Mahzarin Banaji (@banaji) described how she has seen persistent gender bias from LLMs in her research. news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto… #AI #ImplicitBias #MachineLearning

Friday and Saturday: @HarvardCGA turns 20, marking the anniversary with two days of keynotes, panels, and workshops on where spatial research goes next. gis.harvard.edu/2026-cga-con… #GIS #GeographicAnalysis #SpatialData

Thursday at 3pm: Marco Tabellini (@HarvardHBS) examines how salt taxes and trade levies fed unrest before 1789, presenting “Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution” at this week’s Alesina Seminar. iq.harvard.edu/event/marco-t… #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicHistory #Harvard

Wednesday at 12 noon: Aleksandra Conevska presents “Electoral Accountability and Industrial Change: Regulator Selection and Alternative Energy Growth” at the #AppliedStatistics Workshop. appliedstatsworkshopgov3009.… #Harvard #Elections #Energy

Thursday at 3pm: @StephenChaudoin looks at international law and trustworthy sources, presenting "Persuasion and Backlash from International Law in Global Swing States" at this week's Alesina Seminar. iq.harvard.edu/event/stephen… #politicaleconomy #International Relations #ICC