The Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University is a leading demographic research and training center. OPR has a distinguished history of contributions in formal demography and the study of fertility change. In recent years there has been increasing research activity in the areas of health and wellbeing, social demography, and migration and urbanization.
RESEARCH THEMES
NEWS
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Just how valuable are Yelp and Amazon ratings?
Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology, states “Simply put: making rating goods or services as easy as possible, as many e-commerce sites try to do, is counterproductive”.
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Summer institute advances social science in the digital age
Matthew Salganik, Professor of Sociology is the co-founder of the annual institute with Duke University sociologist Christopher Bail. Established to help early career social scientists and data scientists make the most of digital data.
EVENTS
- SEP 24 Smooth Growth Urbanism. Marshall Brown, Associate Professor, Architecture Economics, Princeton University
- SEP 25 Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan” Michael Strausz (Texas Christian University) Sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT PIIRS MIGRATION LAB: PEOPLE AND CULTURES ACROSS BORDERS FALL 2019 COLLOQUIUM SERIES
