Research Programs

Main Research Programs:

1. A program of research on the Future of Work concerned with the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of low-wage work in advanced economies.
2. A program of research on current U.S. Immigration focused on the entry of immigrant families into the civic and political life of the country, and on immigrant experiences outside the traditional gateway cities.
3. A program on Cultural Contact that is investigating how well U.S. institutions are managing to respond to the growing diversity of the American population.
4. A program on Social Inequality, focused on the social effects of rising economic inequality, with particular attention to the ways in which the U.S. political and educational systems have responded to growing economic disparities.
   

Special Projects and Research Initiatives:

1. The Behavioral Economics Roundtable, a forum for advancing the interdisciplinary analysis of economic behavior.
2. The September 11 Initiative, focused on the ways in which the war on terrorism may be affecting U.S. institutions. 
3. Miscellaneous Projects

Completed Programs and Initiatives

1. A special project on the analysis of the 2000 Census.
2. An initiative on the role of Trust in shaping social relations.
3. The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, aimed at finding out why high rates of joblessness have persisted among minorities living in America's central cities.
4. A Literacy Project, co-sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, that highlights the relation between research and practice and evaluates the sustainability of innovations targeting the core problems in American education today.