Here’s what academic social, behavioral, and economic scientists should be working on right now. — Andrew Gelman

And all this needs to be integrated into a systems approach. This is very difficult since solutions must be implemented in an ideologically diverse and oppositional political environment in which the general level of education is not high.

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Here’s what academic social, behavioral, and economic scientists should be working on right now.
Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University