School of the Humanities and Social Sciences
About this community
The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences covers a wide range of disciplines with differing methodologies, from highly quantitative analysis of ‘big data’ to ethnography and the analysis of the material culture and thought of past societies. The geographical range is equally broad, with specialist centres in Latin America, Africa and South Asia, as well as Development Studies and the specialists within each Department or Faculty.
Find out more about the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at http://www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Department of Archaeology
Promote archaeology as a discipline concerned with the entirety of human history - ranging in time from the Palaeolithic to the modern day, and in space from the Americas to the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia -
Department of Social Anthropology
Combines expertise in the central traditional fields of social anthropology with active explorations of new areas of study
Recent Submissions
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Immune-driven positive and balancing selection in human populations
(2019-07-19)This thesis examines the evidence for positive and balancing selection on immune genes in 388 individuals grouped into thirteen geographically diverse populations. The data are high coverage whole genome sequences, many ... -
Inference on a distribution from noisy draws
(Faculty of Economics, 2019-05-07)We consider a situation where the distribution of a random variable is being estimated by the empirical distribution of noisy measurements of the random variable. This is common practice in many settings, including the ... -
twexp and twgravity: Estimating exponential regression models with two-way fixed effects
(Faculty of Economics, 2019-04-26)We introduce the commands twexp and twgravity that implement the estimators developed in Jochmans (2017) for exponential regression models with two-way fixed effects. twexp is applicable to generic n x m panel data. twgravity ... -
The role of expectations for market design – on structural regulatory uncertainty in electricity markets
(Faculty of Economics, 2019-05-07)Ongoing policy discussions on the reconfiguration of bidding zones in European electricity markets induce structural uncertainty about the future market design. This paper deals with the question of how this structural ...
