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Do the SBE Sciences Advance NSF's Mission? Advancing Progress in Science with Innovative Theories, Methods, and Tools
Pages 18-20

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... Game theory explains how individuals reach agreements with one another through conflict or coop eration. It has been enormously influential in the SBE sciences: 11 game theorists have won the Nobel Prize in economics, many of whom received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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... and U.S. governments have established offices dedicated to implementing nudging approaches to a wide range of government programs, with demonstrated policy results.87 Understanding How People and Their Circumstances Change Over Time Studies of education, the labor force, and aging that follow people over long periods of time (longi tudinal studies)
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... generated by search queries -- user browsing logs and social media posts -- to predict a wide range of collective human behaviors, such as consumer demand, unemployment claims, and mortgage default rates.97,98,99 New Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Data More and more use is being made of data collected from surveys on the Web and smartphones. However, data collected in this manner do not satisfy a key requirement of standard survey meth odology, which is that every member of a given population has to be equally likely to be surveyed.
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