Summer 2016 Presidential Authority Awards
The Russell Sage Foundation has recently approved the following Presidential Authority awards in four primary program areas—Behavioral Economics; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social Inequality—as well as two conferences for upcoming issues of the RSF journal.
Supplemental funding has also been awarded to an ongoing study of stereotype threat cues and an ongoing study of how employment ties between government and private industry affect regulation policies.
RSF Journal Conferences
Susan Eckstein (Boston University) and Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis) will organize a symposium and edit an upcoming issue of the RSF journal, “New Immigrant Labor Market Niches.”
Kathleen Mullan Harris (University of North Carolina) and Thomas McDade (Northwestern University) will organize a symposium and co-edit an upcoming issue of the RSF journal, “Biosocial Pathways of Well-Being Across the Life Course.”
Behavioral Economics
Erin Bronchetti and Ellen Magenheim (Swarthmore College), Judd Kessler (University of Pennsylvania), Dmitry Taubinsky (University of California, Berkeley), and Eric Zwick, (University of Chicago) will study how individuals respond to incentives that encourage planning versus incentives that reward task completion.
Daniel Kreisman and James C. Cox (Georgia State University), and Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan) will study behavioral biases and student loan repayment plans.
Future of Work
Carrie Shandra (SUNY Stony Brook) will research market, employer, and student trends in internship vacancies and participation.
Race, Ethnicity & Immigration
Justin Gest (George Mason University) and Jeremy Ferwerda (Dartmouth College) will study refugee resettlement and integration outcomes (co-funded with the MacArthur Foundation).
Richard Alba (CUNY Graduate Center) and Kenneth Prewitt (Columbia University) will organize a conference on Census data and improving ethnic, racial, and immigration statistics.
Social Inequality
Christopher Jencks (Harvard University) will explore of the effects of income inequality on health disparities (co-funded with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth).