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AbstractThe social sciences are undergoing a dramatic transformation from studying problems to solving them; from making do with a small number of sparse data sets to analyzing increasing quantities of diverse, highly informative data; from isolated scholars toiling away on their own to larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams; and from a purely academic pursuit focused inward to having a major impact on public policy, commerce and industry, other academic fields, and some of the major problems that affect individuals and societies. In the midst of all this productive chaos, we have been building the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, a new type of center intended to help foster and respond to these broader developments. We offer here some suggestions from our experiences for the increasing number of other universities that have begun to build similar institutions and for how we might work together to advance social science more generally.

Concern over social scientists' inability to reproduce empirical research has spawned a vast and rapidly growing literature. The size and growth of this literature make it difficult for newly interested academics to come up to speed. Here, we provide a formal text modeling approach to characterize the entirety of the field, which allows us to summarize the breadth of this literature and identify core themes. We construct and analyze text networks built from 1,947 articles to reveal differences across social science disciplines within the body of reproducibility publications and to discuss the diversity of subtopics addressed in the literature. This field-wide view suggests that reproducibility is a heterogeneous problem with multiple sources for errors and strategies for solutions, a finding that is somewhat at odds with calls for largely passive remedies reliant on open science. We propose an alternative rigor and reproducibility model that takes an active approach to rigor prior to publication, which may overcome some of the shortfalls of the postpublication model.

"In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for one third of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last 25 years of the 20th century. Net emigration rates by Mexican state birth-year cohort display a strong positive correlation with the initial size of the Mexican cohort, relative to the corresponding U.S. cohort. Labor-demand shocks also contribute to emigration, but the state-specific component of these is muted relative to labor supply. In states with long histories of emigration, the effects of cohort size on emigration are relatively strong, consistent with the existence pre-existing networks. In states without a history of emigration, the effects of cohort size on emigration accelerate as a cohort ages, consistent with the creation of new networks"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

A Manager in Social Sciences. By Olivier Dumoulin. Fernand Braudel is most of the time admired for his style. But what if the essential part of his work were not inhis writings on history but in his enterprise as master builder ? O. Dumoulin shows the prominent role of thehistorian in the making of the historical French school a world famous institution.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Accounting -- 1 Students' Cheating Behaviour in Higher Education System: Reconnoitring the Academic Integrity from the Accounting Students Perspectives -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Research Methodology -- 4 Findings and Analysis -- 4.1 Demographic Profile -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Use of Amazacc Brain Teaser Card for Financial Accounting Classroom: Non-accounting Students -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problem Statement -- 3 Literature Review -- 4 The Concept of the Game: AmazAcc Brain Teaser Card -- 5 Students Feedback -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Ethnic Board Diversity and Financial Performance: Evidence from Malaysian GLCs -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review and Hypothesis Development -- 2.1 Ethnic Diversity -- 3 Research Methodology -- 3.1 Sample Selection -- 3.2 Data Collection -- 3.3 Variable Measurement -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Impact of Educational Level of Board of Directors on Firms' Performance -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review and Hypothesis Development -- 2.1 Education Diversity -- 3 Research Methodology -- 3.1 Sample Selection -- 3.2 Data Collection -- 3.3 Variable Measurement -- 3.4 Data Analysis -- 4 Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Computerised Accounting Information Systems and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Transparency -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Background -- 3 Literature Review and Hypotheses Development -- 4 Research Methodology -- 5 Results -- 6 Discussion and Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Art and Design -- 6 Jihad: The Concept in Visual Art -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Islamic Art: The Definiton -- 4 Concepts of Jihad in Visual Art -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments.