According to a study released Tuesday by Joseph Dexter, a Dartmouth faculty and QSS affiliate, The Centers for Disease Control, the White House, and state health departments failed to properly communicate vital information about COVID-19 to the public. To read the full story, see here.
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Former QSS Postdoc David Cottrell (now an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Georgia) and QSS faculty Michael Herron recently published a new article in the journal State Politics and Policy Quarterly titled "Voting Lines, Equal Treatment, and Early Voting Check-In Times in Florida. In the article, they find evidence that excessive wait times at the polls in 2012 were associated with lower turnout at the polls four years later, which may have implications for...
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Robert Shumsky, a QSS steering commitee member, has recently published an article in the Harvard Business Review on "What Safe Shopping Looks Like During the Pandemic". In this article he and his co-author Laurens Debo describe "three principles" for helping retailers implement social distancing that they have come up with based on their own research, funementals of operation management, and information on how the disease is transmitted. They also explore how the implementation of principles...
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Independent research is a key component of the undergraduate curriculum in the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College. All students majoring in QSS complete independent research projects, which are presented in front of a faculty audience. Some QSS majors work on...
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Cleveland Browns chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta visited Dartmouth to speak to the QSS 30.01 Sports Analytics class, taught by College...
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Antonio Sirianni, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program in Quantitative Social Science, received an award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
The award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Rationality and Society Section recognizes Tony’s paper, "The Specialization of Informal Social Control: Fighting in the...
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Genna Liu, who graduated in June 2019 with a major in Quantitative Social Science from Dartmouth College, recently presented her undergraduate thesis at the 2019 Conference of the Society for Political Methodology held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Genna's thesis, titled "Polarization or Consensus? Examining Immigration Policy...
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The Program in Quantitative Social Science is graduating its largest class ever, thirty-two majors and four minors. This is a remarkably large group of talented students, all of whom completed independent research projects during their fourth years on campus. QSS is a hands-on program, and student participation in research is a key aspect of the program's educational mission. Ten QSS majors in the Class of 2019 (approximately...
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With her advisor Yusaku Horiuchi, who is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and a member of the Steering Committee of the Program in Quantitative Social Science, Jennifer Wu '19 recently presented a paper at a Yale University workshop on Japanese Politics and...
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As part of their graduation requirements, all students majoring in Quantitative Social Science must complete and present an independent research project. These projects are either honors theses or one quarter projects. This year, ten QSS students have written theses, and they are defending their research this week and next. All QSS thesis defenses are public, and the presentation schedule for Spring 2019 is as follows.
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