Please join us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Institution for Social and Policy Studies ISPS at Yale University. Recognizing that important social problems cannot be studied adequately by a single discipline, the Yale Corporation established the Institution in 1968 in order to facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry in the social sciences and research into important public policy arenas.

This celebration and conference will bring together a distinguished group of scholars representing a diversity of disciplines to commemorate ISPS' accomplishments and look toward the future.  The theme of the conference is the use of rigorous scientific research methods, such as field experimentation, to study important social science and policy questions. The conference showcases unusually creative and important pieces of research conducted by ISPS-affiliated scholars in a variety of social science disciplines.