RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Hugh B. Price, June 24, 2008, Real Clear Politics
Hugh B. Price argues that the growing acceptance of diversity that fueled Senator Obama's victory was due to affirmative action, which unquestionably has made our robustly diverse nation a more perfect union. Read More
BOOK
E.J. Dionne, Jr., March 01, 2008
E. J. Dionne explains why the era of the Religious Rightand the crude exploitation of faith for political advantageis over. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Georgiy Bobashev, Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke and Feng Yu, Winter 2007, Winter Simulation Conference
With Feng Yu, Brookings Senior Fellow Joshua M. Epstein and Nonresident Fellows Georgiy V. Bobashev and D. Michael Goedecke introduce a hybrid Agent-based and Equation-based model that can dramatically save time and can better describe epidemiological processes involving human behavioral response. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, December 07, 2007
12:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Washington, DC
The Brookings Center on Social and Economic Dynamics and the Metropolitan Policy Program jointly hosted an NICHD funded Agent Based Modeling and Spatial Population Dynamics Workshop at the Brookings Institution. Researchers from across the country attended the workshop to discuss current projects, to gain insight into agent-based modeling, and to unearth issues for future research collaboration. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ross A. Hammond, November 08, 2007, 2007 Health Challenge Think Tank
An event brought together top international obesity experts—from academia, government, industry, and non-profit—to work toward a comprehensive approach to the worldwide obesity pandemic. Brookings’s Ross Hammond discussed how insights and techniques pioneered at CSED can play a key role in facilitating an integrated approach. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
H. Peyton Young, October 2007, CSED Working Paper No. 51
H. Peyton Young analyzes the effect of incorporating heterogeneity into three broad classes of models -- contagion, social influence, and social learning. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Joshua M. Epstein, July 13, 2007, National Institutes of Health
Presentation by Joshua M. Epstein (07/13/07) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Joshua M. Epstein, May 30, 2007, National Institutes of Health
Presentation by Joshua M. Epstein (05/30/07) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
H. Peyton Young, April 2007, CSED Working Paper # 47
Peyton H. Young surveys work on learning in games and delineates the boundary between forms of learning that lead to Nash equilibrium and forms that lead to weaker notions of equilibrium (or none at all). Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Georgiy V. Bobashev, Diane K. Wagener, Joshua M. Epstein, Feng Yu, D. Michael Goedecke and Robert J. Morris, December 2006, CSED Working Paper # 46
CSED Working Paper #46 by Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke, Feng Yu, Robert J. Morris, Diane K. Wagener, and Georgiy V. Bobashev (December 2006) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
H. Peyton Young, December 2006, CSED Working Paper #45
People may realize different benefits and costs from the innovation, or have different beliefs about its benefits and costs, hear about it at different times, or delay in acting on their information. Peyton H. Young analyzes the dynamics arising from different sources of heterogeneity in a completely general setting without placing parametric restrictions on the distribution of the relevant characteristics. Read More