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"For the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States"

— From the Letter of Gift by Margaret Olivia Sage establishing
the Russell Sage Foundation, April 19, 1907

The Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. Located in New York City, it is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community. The foundation also publishes, under its own imprint, the books that derive from the work of its grantees and visiting scholars.

With the Foundation's support, Miles Corak and the Center for American Progress examine the relationship between inequality and economic mobility.

Our latest U.S. 2010 report analyzes the sources of unauthorized Mexican immigration to the United States and the disadvantages faced by unauthorized immigrants in the labor market.

Our latest publication, Dialogue Across Difference, synthesizes three years’ worth of research from an innovative field experiment focused on improving relations across race and gender.

Sheldon H. Danziger, the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, will become president on September 1, 2013.

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Featured Publications

The American Non-Dilemma

Racial Inequality Without Racism

Nancy DiTomaso

A comprehensive examination of the persistence of racial inequality in the post-Civil Rights era and how it plays out in today's economic and political context.
Coming of Political Age

American Schools and the Civic Development of Immigrant Youth

Rebecca M. Callahan
Chandra Muller

Coming of Political Age argues that schools play a central role in integrating immigrant youth into the political system.
Rethinking Workplace Regulation

Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment

Katherine V.W. Stone
Harry Arthurs

Rethinking Workplace Regulation presents a sweeping tour of the latest policy experiments that attempt to balance worker security and the new flexible employment paradigm.

Research Update

Racial Bias in Policing

The Russell Sage Foundation's Working Group on Racial Bias in Policing integrates experimental and survey research with unprecedented access to police personnel data to shed light on how, why, and when race influences police decisions.

Featured Research

U.S. 2010

For sixty years, the Russell Sage Foundation has produced authoritative research on trends and changes in U.S. society using information from the decennial census. U.S. 2010: America After the First Decade of the New Century continues this tradition by reporting on key social and economic trends during the previous decade.

In the News

Jun 17

RSF author Nancy DiTomaso appears on The Tavis Smiley Show

Jun 13

RSF scholar Paola Giuliano discusses research on family on APM's Marketplace

Jun 11

RSF authors Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann publish op-ed in the L.A. Times on the gender gap in education

Jun 6

RSF grantee Phillip A. Goff talks to the New York Times about racial disparities in policing

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