Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

On Jan. 14, outgoing President Joseph Biden bestowed the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to approximately 400 scientists and engineers. PECASE is the highest ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 8 - Decent work and economic growth. Social mobility refers to the extent to which individuals or families move up or down the economic ...

Many scholars, politicians, and citizens across the globe examine welfare conditionality and its effects on its people and economies. Understanding the outcomes of the programs implemented to approach ...

The American Economic Association awarded the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal to Stefanie Stantcheva, a professor of political economy at Harvard. The medal, named after the American economist and former ...

Recently, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved changing the economics degree from a Social Science Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) code to a Science, Technology, ...

Economics has achieved much; there are large bodies of often nonobvious theoretical understandings and of careful and sometimes compelling empirical evidence. The profession knows and understands many ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...