Social Science

A new study argues that the architecture of corporate ownership does far more than allocate capital and control rights: it...

A new study drawing on the most detailed snapshot available of American household finances has found that financial literacy acts...

When the rivers of Bangladesh swallow a homestead, they take more than land. They take livelihoods, possessions, livestock and, according...

International education researchers have long treated the nation-state as the natural unit of analysis for studying how universities globalize. A...

Nimble fingers, it turns out, may matter more for a child's school success than nimble feet. A sweeping new meta-analysis...

Every June, as the kindergarten year winds down, teachers around the world open their classroom doors to find envelopes, cards,...

A sweeping content analysis of children's cartoons streaming on Disney Plus has found that the animated worlds beloved by millions...

One of the most contested ideas in the science of sexuality and gender identity is back at the center of...

The explosive growth of financial technology and its collision course with sustainability has now been mapped in unprecedented detail. A...

Kolkata, one of India's oldest and most densely populated metropolitan regions, is on a trajectory to become nearly two-thirds urban...