The Russell Sage Foundation recently approved the following Presidential Authority grants in the Future of Work and Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration programs, and special initiatives on Immigration and Immigrant Integration and Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge.

The foundation also approved a conference for an upcoming issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences and supplemental funding for ongoing projects by Carrie Shandra (SUNY Stony Brook) and Annie Ro (University of California, Irvine).

RSF Journal Conference

Sandra Susan Smith and Jonathan Simon (University of California, Berkeley) will organize a conference for an upcoming issue of the RSFjournal titled “The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution.”

Future of Work

Tanya S. Byker (Middlebury College) and Martha J. Bailey (University of Michigan) will explore the long-term effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on parents’ employment and family structure. Co-funded with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Ann Huff Stevens (University of California, Davis) will conduct a study of men’s non-employment using longitudinal data. Co-funded with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Judith A. Levine (Temple University) will examine the extent to which the transition from college to employment for recent graduates differs by class, race, and gender.

Immigration and Immigrant Integration

Jeremy Weinstein, Jens Hainmueller and Duncan Lawrence (Stanford University) and Jeremy Ferwerda (Dartmouth College) will examine the extent to which co-sponsorship affects refugee integration. Co-funded with the Carnegie Corporation.

Florencia Torche (Stanford University) will investigate the effects of punitive state-level immigration bills on the birth outcomes of Latinas exposed to these bills during pregnancy. Co-funded with the Carnegie Corporation.

Race, Ethnicity and Immigration

Richard C. Fording (University of Alabama) and Matthew Nobles (University of Central Florida) will analyze the extent to which community-level factors contributing to hate crimes.

Carolyn A. Liebler (University of Minnesota) and Miri Song (University of Kent) will examine the extent to which mixed-race individuals’ life choices and families affect the way they identify racially.

Lori Markson and Rebecca Schwarzlose (Washington University, St Louis) will study the ways that adults and children between the ages of 5 and 11 conceptualize race and skin color.

Christopher T. Stout and Keith P. Baker (Oregon State University) will examine the extent to which accusations of racism against politicians influences voters’ partisanship and voting behavior.

Christopher R. Walters and Patrick M. Kline (University of California, Berkeley) will study employer discrimination by leveraging data from resume correspondence experiments.

Integrating Biology and Social Science

Su Yeong Kim and Deborah Parra-Medina (University of Texas, Austin) will examine the relationship between stress responses and academic and health outcomes among Mexican-American adolescents. Co-funded with the JPB Foundation.