Social Science

Prison-based drug treatment programs have long been judged by a single yardstick: whether they keep former inmates from returning to...

China's celebrated victory over absolute poverty has entered a new and precarious phase, one in which the central question is...

The moment a woman learns she is pregnant can carry an extraordinary emotional charge, and according to one of the...

When a government rolls out an ambitious education reform, the announcement tends to grab the headlines while the messy work...

In a country where the birth rate has collapsed to 1.18 children per woman, among the lowest figures ever recorded...

In an era when most institutions respond to contraction with cutbacks, mergers announced by press release, and top-down restructuring, one...

For more than a century, scientists have struggled with a deceptively simple question: how bad was that flood? Earthquakes have...

When a young child raises a hand to ask why the sky changes color or where a puddle goes after...

The pursuit of happiness has long been studied through the lens of material conditions, health, and income, but a growing...

The size of the family a woman grows up in continues to shape how many children she wants decades later,...