Social Inequality

Recent Awards

Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin

"Internal Appropriation - Conference and book to examine the current state of poverty research and antipoverty policies"
December 2007, $34,500

Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin
William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame
Teresa Seeman, University of California, Los Angeles

"Toward Improving Our Understanding of the Tie between Socio-Economic Status and Health"
November 2007, $291,292
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Jeff Manza, Northwestern University
Clem Brooks, Indiana University

"Inequality and American Social Policy Attitudes"
November 2007, $151,776
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Jeffrey Morenoff, University of Michigan

"Community Context, Prisoner Reentry, and Post-Prison Employment"
October 2007, $35,000
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Narayan Sastry, University of Michigan

"Dislocation and Return of New Orleans Residents After Hurricane Katrina"
October 2007, $35,000
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David Konisky, University of Missouri, Columbia

"Testing for Inequalities in Environmental Enforcement: Government Performance and Environmental Justice"
June 2007, $23,068
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William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame

"Does Higher Family Income Produce Better Child Health? Evidence from the 1993 Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit"
June 2007, $131,477
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Wendy Rahn, University of Minnesota

"Citizen Investors: The Democratization of the Stock Market and the Transformation of American Politics"
June 2007, $80,893
Project Description

Claudia Schur, National Opinion Research Center
Mark Berk, National Opinion Research Center
Jason Feldman, National Opinion Research Center

"The Distributional Impacts of Health-Related Government Tax and Program Expenditures: How Policy Contributes to Social Inequality"
June 2007, $148,294
Project Description

David Epstein, Columbia University
James Fowler, University of California, San Diego
Sharyn O'Halloran, Columbia University

"Income Inequality and Political Polarization: The View from Within Congress"
June 2007, $150,103
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Suzanne Mettler, Syracuse University

"Effects of Transformation in the U.S. Welfare State on the Distribution of Political Voice, 1973-2007"
June 2007, $166,624
Project Description

Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin

"Planning Meeting on the Relationship between Health, Biology, and Socioeconomic Status"
February 2007, $25,222
Project Description

Sean Corcoran, New York University
Thomas Romer, Princeton University
Howard Rosenthal, New York University

"The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in U.S. Education Finance"
November 2006, $213,905
Project Description

Justin Phillips, Columbia University
Leah Brooks, McGill University

"The Politics of Inequality: Neighborhood-Level Allocations of Community Development Block Grant Money"
November 2006, $143,921
Project Description

Gerald Wright, Indiana University
Elizabeth Rigby, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Representing the Poor: Where, When and How are the Interests of the Poor Represented in State Legislatures"
November 2006, $140,908
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Derek Douglas, Center for American Progress

"Forum On Broadening Access to College"
November 2006, $35,000
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Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Institutions and U.S. Wage Inequality"
November 2006, $5,500
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Christopher Jencks, Harvard University
Internal Appropriation , Russell Sage Foundation

"Income Inequality and Children's Educational Outcomes"
August 2006, $5,952
Project Description

Carolyn Heinrich, University of North Carolina
Thomas Kaplan, University of Wisconsin
John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin

"Pathways to Self-Sufficiency: Getting Ahead in an Era Beyond Welfare Reform"
June 2006, $15,000
Project Description

Loic Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley
Bruce Western, Princeton University

"Conference on the Penal State"
April 2006, $15,040
Project Description

Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown University Law Center
Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School

"Social and Economic Inequality: The Role of Law, Markets, and Social Structure"
March 2006, $34,975
Project Description

Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Katherine A. Magnuson, Columbia University

"Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap"
January 2006, $43,480
Project Description

Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Timothy M. Smeeding, Syracuse University

"Is Higher Education a Vehicle for Social Mobility?"
November 2005, $157,734
Project Description

Robert F. Schoeni, University of Michigan
James S. House, University of Michigan

"Health Effects of Non-Health Policy"
October 2005, $34,509
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Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan
David R. Harris, Cornell University

"The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist"
September 2005, $36,000
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Annette Lareau, University of Maryland, College Park
Dalton Conley, New York University
Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley
David Grusky, Stanford University

"Social Class: How Does it Work?"
September 2005, $30,830
Project Description

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kevin Stainback, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Documenting Desegregation: Equal Opportunity in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964"
September 2005, $35,000
Project Description

Martin Gilens, Princeton University

"Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness"
June 2005, $175,270
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Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Syracuse University
Ross Rubenstein, Syracuse University

"Economic Inequality and Higher Education"
April 2005, $43,000
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Bruce Western, Princeton University

"The Growth and Consequences of American Economic Inequality"
February 2005, $202,772
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Larry Bartels, Princeton University

"Unequal Democracy"
November 2004, $199,780
Project Description

Lane Kenworthy, University of Arizona

"Well-being of the Poor: An International Comparison"
November 2004, $33,222
Project Description

Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University
Suzanne Mettler, Syracuse University
Joe Soss, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Making the Politics of Poverty and Inequality: How Public Policies are Reshaping American Democracy"
November 2004, $37,500
Project Description

Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota

"Inequality and Democracy in the United States: What We Know and What We Need to Learn"
April 2004, $19,333
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Eric Plutzer, Penn State University

"Economic Hardship, Family Life, and Voter Turnout in Developmental Perspective: Longitudinal Research on the High School Class of 1992"
January 2004, $37,945
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Harriet Duleep, The Urban Institute

"Occupational Experience and Socioeconomic Variations in Mortality"
October 2003, $35,000
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Susan Dynarski, Harvard University

"Loans, Merit Aid and Tax Incentives: How Have Recent Policy Innovations"
September 2003, $49,804
Project Description

John M. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley

"Berkeley Symposium on Poverty, the Distribution of Income, and Public Policy"
August 2003, $31,500
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Thomas Smith, National Opinion Research Center

"The Inequality of Troubles: A Study of the Levels of Problems Across Time, Cohorts, and Sub-Groups"
June 2003, $276,500
Project Description

Ruth Lopez Turley, University of Wisconsin

"Toward Equal Opportunity? Changes in the Effect of Socioeconomic Background on Educational Attainment"
May 2003, $27,758
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Theda Skocpol, Harvard University

"APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy"
April 2003, $40,000
Project Description

Nolan McCarty, Princeton University

"Polarization, Inequality and Public Policy in the American States"
November 2002, $99,630
Project Description

John Roemer, Yale University
Woojin Lee, Northern Illinois University
Karine Van der Straeten, Laboratoire d'Econometrie de l'Ecole Polytechnique

"The Political Economy of Racism, Xenophobia and Distribution"
November 2002, $158,120
Project Description

Leslie McCall, Rutgers University

"Awareness of Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution: Have They Increased in the Era of Rising Inequality?"
October 2002, $48,750
Project Description

Nancy Burns, University of Michigan
Larry Bartels, Princeton University
Donald Kinder, University of Michigan

"American Perceptions of Economic Inequality"
June 2002, $147,655
Project Description

Susan Mayer, The University of Chicago

"Social Consequences of Economic Inequality for Infants and Adolescents"
March 2002, $44,231
Project Description

"Social Inequality Conference and Workshops"

February 2002, $100,000

Robert D. Mare, University of California, Los Angeles
Janet Currie, University of California, Los Angeles
V. Joseph Hotz, University of California, Los Angeles
Anne Pebley, University of California, Los Angeles
Meredith Phillips, University of California, Los Angeles
Narayan Sastry, University of Michigan

"UCLA Working Group on Spatial Aspects of Inequality"
January 2002, $877,849

Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University

"Inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care"
June 2001, $408,466

Christopher Jencks, Harvard University

"Summer Institute Conference on the New Inequality Project"
April 2001, $43,260

Lisa Berkman, Harvard University

"Social Inequality and Health"
March 2001, $375,602

Timothy M. Smeeding, Syracuse University

"Economic Inequality, Public Goods Provision, and Social Outcomes: National and Cross-National Differences"
February 2001, $221,100

William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame

"The Consequences of Social Inequality for Families, Schools, and Communities"
December 2000, $748,709

Bruce Western, Princeton University

"The Effects of Economic Inequality on Civic Life and the Reciprocal Effects of Citizenship on Economic Distribution"
November 2000, $778,670

Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin

"The Wisconsin Family Capital Project: How Health, Education, Wealth, and Family Resources are Shaping Economic Inequality"
June 2000, $773,059

David T. Ellwood, Harvard University
Christopher Jencks, Harvard University
Thomas Kane, The Brookings Institution
Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
Sidney Verba, Harvard University

"The New Inequality: How Changes in Families, Higher Education, and Political Life Are Affecting American Society"
November 1999, $552,208
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