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The Social and Economic Effects of the Great Recession: Recent Awards

Social

Individual Attitudes

Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
Patricia Greenfield, University of California, Los Angeles
The Effects of the Great Recession on Young People's Values and Behaviors
November, 2011, $159,992
Project Description

Family

Ariel Kalil, National Opinion Research Center
The Great Recession and Married Parents' Use of Time
June, 2011, $82,840
Project Description

Health and Mental Health

Melissa McInerney, College of William and Mary
Jennifer Mellor, College of William and Mary
Lauren Nicholas, University of Michigan
Consequences of the Great Recession on Health and Health-Related Outcomes
November, 2011, $140,367
Project Description
Sarah Burgard, University of Michigan
Kristin Seefeldt, Indiana University
Recessionary Events and their Relationship to Health: Evidence from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study
June, 2011, $72,583
Project Description

Immigration

Gary Painter, University of Southern California
Zhou Yu, University of Utah
Housing Outcomes of Immigrants in New and Traditional Destinations During the Great Recession
November, 2010, $35,000
Project Description
Brian Cadena, University of Colorado-Boulder
Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University
Immigration, Internal Migration, and Local Labor Market Adjustment Following the U.S. Housing Bust
November, 2011, $76,231
Project Description
Gabriel R. Sanchez, University of New Mexico
Jillian Medeiros, University of New Mexico
Kimberly R. Huyser, University of New Mexico
The Great Recession: Implications for Minority and Immigrant Communities
March, 2012, $100,353
Project Description

Economic

Income, Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Jeffery Hayes, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Robert Drago, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Low-Wage Women and the Great Recession
February, 2012, $35,000
Project Description
Scott Allard, University of Chicago
Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty and the American Safety Net
November, 2011, $67,623
Project Description
Hilary W. Hoynes, University of California, Davis
Patricia M. Anderson, Dartmouth College
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University
Kristen F. Butcher, Wellesley College
Understanding Food Insecurity During the Great Recession
November, 2011, $146,614
Project Description
Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
Fabian Pfeffer, University of Michigan
Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan
Wealth After the Great Recession: Who Lost, Who Recovered, and Why?
February, 2012, $169,535
Project Description
Signe-Mary McKernan, Urban Institute
Caroline Ratcliffe, Urban Institute
Wealth Loss during the Great Recession: Facts, Impacts and Policy Remedies
June, 2011, $95,000
Project Description

Retirement

Richard Johnson, Urban Institute
Barbara Butrica, Urban Institute
Karen Smith, Urban Institute
The Financial Crisis, Great Recession and Retirement Security
June, 2011, $205,638
Project Description
Alicia Munnell, Boston College
The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Older Workers and Retirement Security
November, 2010, $131,027
Project Description

Consumption and Savings

Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Tal Gross, Columbia University
Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
The Great Recession and Fringe Banking: Has the Economic Crisis Transformed Financial Behavior?
November, 2011, $150,463
Project Description

Housing and Foreclosures

Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
The Six Trillion Dollar Loss of Housing Wealth in the Great Recession: What are the Long-Term Consequences?
June, 2011, $145,613
Project Description

Labor Market

Erling Barth, University of Oslo
James Davis, U.S. Census Bureau
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University
Employment and Wages in Recession and Recovery, 1954-2010
June, 2011, $223,250
Project Description
Till von Wachter, Columbia University
Is There a 'Cleansing Effect' of Recessions? An Analysis of Employment Changes at the Industry and Firm Level
June, 2011, $168,201
Project Description
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley
The Labor Market in the Great Recession: What Role for the Supply Side?
November, 2011, $156,270
Project Description

Institutions

Fiscal Crisis in State Budgets

Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dire States: Fiscal Effects and Policy Choices During the Great Recession
November, 2011, $86,013
Project Description
Howard Chernick, CUNY Graduate Center
Cordelia Reimers, Hunter College
State Budgets, Redistributive Policies, and the Great Recession
June, 2011, $34,760
Project Description
Alicia Munnell, Boston College
The Long-Term Impact of State Retirement Programs on State Fiscal Health in the Wake of the Economic Crisis
November, 2011, $125,981
Project Description

Education

William Evans, Notre Dame
Robert Schwab, University of Maryland
The Great Recession and Public Education
June, 2011, $170,843
Project Description

Social Safety Net

Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
The Great Recession and the Social Safety Net
June, 2011, $273,431
Project Description
Keith Bentele, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Impact of State Safety-Net Programs and Household Assets on Poverty during the Great Recession
November, 2011, $17,051
Project Description
National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, D.C.
The Recent Performance of Safety-Net Programs
November, 2011, $35,000
Project Description

Crime and Criminal Justice

Peter Enns, Cornell University
The Great Recession and State Criminal Justice Policy: Explaining the Unexpected
February, 2012, $77,766
Project Description

Political Responses and Behavior

Jeff Manza, Northwestern University
Clem Brooks, Indiana University
A Broken Public? Response and Non-Response of the American Public to the Great Recession
June, 2011, $138,672
Project Description
Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University
Nancy Bermeo, University of Oxford
Jonas Pontusson, University of Geneva
Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis in Advanced Industrial States
November, 2010, $29,600
Project Description
Steven S. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis
Stanley Feldman, Stony Brook University
Cindy D. Kam, Vanderbilt University
Steven M. Fazzari, Washington University in St. Louis
The Great Recession and Public Attitudes Toward the Role of Government
June, 2012, $201,412
Project Description
Nolan McCarthy, Princeton University
The Political Economy of Public Pension Funding
March, 2012, $111,471
Project Description

General

David Grusky, Stanford University
Monitoring the Effects of the Great Recession
February, 2011, $260,156
Project Description
David Grusky, Stanford University
The Social Consequences of the Great Recession
June, 2010, $34,740
Project Description