The Russell Sage Foundation recently approved the following Presidential Authority awards in three core program areas—Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social Inequality—as well as two conferences for upcoming issues of the RSF journal. One award was also made under our ACA Special Initiative.

Supplemental funding has also been awarded to Ajay Chaudry (New York University) for an ongoing study of the family and work dynamics of households headed by low-income single mothers, and to Molly Martin (Pennsylvania State University) and colleagues for their ongoing project, “The Marcellus Shale Income Gains Natural Experiment.”

RSF Journal Conferences

Lawrence M. Berger, Katherine Magnuson and Maria Cancian (University of Wisconsin, Madison) organized a symposium for  a special double issue of the RSF journal, “Anti-Poverty Policy Innovations.” (Co-funded with the Robin Hood Foundation)

Kay Deaux (CUNY Graduate Center and New York University), Katharine Donato (Georgetown University) and Nancy Foner (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) will organize a symposium and co-edit an issue of the RSF journal, “Immigration and Identities.”

Future of Work

Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), Ann P. Bartel (Columbia University), Maya Rossin-Slater (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Christopher Ruhm (University of Virginia) will conduct a survey of employer provisions of paid family leave in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Race, Ethnicity & Immigration

Daniel J. Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania), Cheryl R. Kaiser (Vanderbilt University), and Efrén O. Pérez (University of Washington) will study the impact of the 2016 presidential campaign on Asian Americans’ and Latinos’ political attitudes and behavior.

Joscha Legewie (Yale University) and Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia University) will compile and analyze two comprehensive datasets on fatal police encounters and examine the factors that lead to use of excessive force by the police.

Caitlin Patler (University of California, Davis) will study the impacts of long-term immigration detention on individuals, households, and communities.

Diana T. Sanchez (Rutgers University) and Sarah E Gaither (Duke University) will research how biracial and bicultural individuals’ identities are formed and negotiated, and how these processes may affect their health outcomes.

Annie E. Ro (University of California, Irvine) and Jennifer Van Hook (Pennsylvania State University) will evaluate current methods of identifying undocumented Asian immigrants and explore the demographic characteristics of undocumented Asian immigrants in California.

Social Inequality

Shira Gabriel and Shelley Kimelberg (SUNY Buffalo) will study parents’ preferences regarding the racial composition of their children’s schools.

Megan Reid (University of Wisconsin, Madison) will explore how formerly incarcerated individuals and their partners and family members navigate forming new relationships following prison release.

Siwei Cheng (New York University) will examine how life cycle patterns of earnings inequality change across different birth cohorts.

Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act

Daniel J. Hopkins (University of Pennsylvania) and William R. Hobbs (Northeastern University) will study the factors that influence public perceptions of and attitudes towards the Affordable Care Act. (Co-funded with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)