Governor steps up pressure to return kids to school (Emily Oster cited)
December 1, 2020 South Florida Sun Sentinel
Research Matters
Interdisciplinary Focus
New Mellon Foundation Grant will Focus on the Migrant Experience
Faculty Q&A
Course Spotlight: Broadening the Study of War
Interdisciplinary Focus
Watson Welcomes New Cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows
Interdisciplinary Focus
Seminar Compares Erosion of Democratic Norms Around the World
In The News
The Health 202: The Evidence Doesn't Support Closing Schools to Stop the Coronavirus (commentary by Emily Oster)
November 30, 2020 Washington Post
One sector is flourishing during the pandemic: K-12 private schools (Emily Oster cited)
November 30, 2020 The Hill
News from Watson
Call It an Emergency: The Next President’s Guide to Addressing Climate Change
November 4, 2020
Watson Election 2020
September 2, 2020
Standing in Solidarity
June 3, 2020
Research Briefs
Ethics in Field Experimentation: A Call to Establish New Standards to Protect the Public From Unwanted Manipulation and Real Harms
November 30, 2020
Opportunities
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Events
December 3
Book Talk with Thea Riofrancos — Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
December 4
Gautam Nair — Business, Voters, and Distributive Politics in Developing Democracies
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
December 7
Dynamics of American Democracy ─ Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Student Experience
Student Spotlight: Emma Caviness ’19 MPA ’21
November 23, 2020
Webcasts
Understanding the 2020 Election
November 19, 2020
Nazanin Shahrokni ─ Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran
November 19, 2020
Evelyn Farkas — The Legacy of the Trump Foreign Policy
November 18, 2020
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