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Claudia Goldin
Harvard University
RSF Nobelists
Goldin is a former RSF visiting scholar and grant recipient. She also contributed chapters to the RSF books Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace and The Declining Significance of Gender? Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s (NBER) Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy group.
Claudia Goldin
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Claudia Goldin, professor of economics at Harvard University, program director for the Development of the American Economy, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Lawrence F. Katz, professor of economics at Harvard University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, conducted historical research into the impact of technological and educational developments on the American economy during the years 1910 to 1960.
Peter Gottschalk
Boston College
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Peter Gottschalk, professor of economics at Boston College, spent a semester at Russell Sage gathering material that would support his argument that technological change has been an important cause of the increasing inequality in the distribution of income. In new empirical work, he examined technological change in various industries, linking it with census data on employment and wage patterns in these industries.
Rowena Gray
University of California, Merced
Visiting Researcher
Rowena Gray is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Merced. She will examine the historical housing market in New York City, documenting the price and quality of housing between 1880 and 1910, and analyzing how housing and neighborhoods changed as immigrants arrived. She will also study the impact of immigration on crime in 30 U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 by analyzing data from police records and other archival sources.
Herschel I. Grossman
Brown University
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Herschel I. Grossman, professor of economics at Brown University, will compare the usefulness of two competing visions of the state and the economic policies it pursues. The state can be conceptualized as an agent of the citizenry, allocating public resources according to the collective interest. Alternatively, the state can be thought of as an instrument of a ruling elite who claim the tax revenues of the state, much as the owners of a proprietary enterprise claim the profits.
Judith M. Gueron
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Judith Gueron, Outgoing President of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, will author a book profiling the development of randomized trials as a tool in the assessment of social programs and an important factor in policy making, focusing specifically on evaluations of welfare reform programs. She will highlight the role played by Congress, the individual states, private philanthropy, and the MDRC in turning these demonstration projects from a stigmatized research design to a fundamental component in the construction of social policy.
Timothy Guinnane
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Timothy W. Guinnane, professor of economics at Yale University, will write a book examining the history and logic of institutions that provided credit and insurance to poor people in Europe and America from the 18th century to the present. Drawing upon the economics of information, game theory, and contract theory, Guinnane will mount a systematic study of how poor people in different periods and places have managed risk. He will also explain why some of the early credit unions eventually became formal, profit-seeking institutions, while others remained non-profit.
Bradley L. Hardy
American University
Visiting Scholar
2018 to 2019
Hardy will investigate how historical racial segregation in different geographical areas of the U.S. has affected contemporary socioeconomic outcomes for racial minorities. By combining data on economic mobility from the Equality of Opportunity Project with new data on segregation between 1880 and 1940, he will analyze the extent to which long-standing racial disparities in wealth, income, and health outcomes have continued to shape intergenerational inequality over the long term.
Eric D. Hilt
Wellesley College
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Hilt will write three papers examining the role of investment banks and other financial institutions in the U.S. economy from 1900-1925. He will analyze legislation enacted during this period as well as newly collected data on all NYSE-traded companies. Hilt will study the effect of ties between bankers and nonfinancial companies in order to understand the consequences of financial regulations intended to limit the power of bankers.
Harry Holzer
Georgetown University
Visiting Scholar
2021 to 2022
Holzer will analyze worker-and company-level data from Walmart to test hypotheses about how implementing high-road employer practices, such as higher wages and increased training, might benefit both employers and employees. He will examine the extent to which high-road strategies are associated with improved company performance, reduced employee turnover and increased employee earnings. Holzer will analyze confidential data from Walmart on their workers and stores to estimate the impacts of new labor practices over the last decade.
Harry J. Holzer
Michigan State University
Visiting Scholar
1995 to 1996
Harry J. Holzer, professor of economics and research affiliate at the Population Studies Center, Michigan State University, spent a semester writing papers based on the survey of employers he conducted for the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. His work is aimed at sorting out the relative importance of skills and credentials, geographic location, and employer discrimination as explanations for the barriers that African Americans face in the labor market.
V. Joseph Hotz
Duke University
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Hotz is part of an interdisciplinary working group (with Suzanne Bianchi and Judith Seltzer), which will assess three primary pathways through which families may transmit advantage or disadvantage to subsequent generations: genes and biology, economic resources and skills, and social ties and family obligations. Suzanne Bianchi and Judith Seltzer will complete their book, Family Relationships Across the Generations.
Hilary W. Hoynes
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Hoynes will analyze the medium- and long-term effects of the U.S. safety net for families with children, focusing on the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (formerly food stamps). She will explore how additional family resources as a result of the EITC affect children’s cognitive development during childhood. She will also investigate how early-life exposure to SNAP influences adult economic outcomes, including employment, earnings, occupation, and poverty status.
Markus Jäntti
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Markus Jäntti, Professor of Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Timothy Smeeding, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Syracuse University, form a working group that will compare recent patterns of social and economic mobility in the United States with other advanced economies in an effort to determine whether America’s high rate of economic inequality is mitigated by greater economic mobility.
David S. Johnson
U.S. Census Bureau
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Johnson will write a series of papers examining the national measures of income and consumption in order to determine whether such measures are effective gauges of economic well-being and inequality. He will analyze the different levels of measurement error in diverse survey data, including the Consumer Expenditure Survey, Current Population Survey, National Income and Product Accounts, and linked survey and administrative income data available at the Census Research Data Center.
Rucker C. Johnson
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Johnson will analyze the consequences of school desegregation and school quality on adult educational attainment, earnings, incarceration, and health status. Based on these findings, Johnson will write a book evaluating the long-term impact of War on Poverty policies that were designed to improve school resources for minority and poor children. He will also analyze the links between educational investment and childhood development from preschool to high school and beyond.
Chinhui Juhn
University of Houston
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Juhn will work on a book that combines economic analysis and personal interviews to examine the future of the U.S. workforce. She will look at what jobs are likely to exist in the future as globalization and technology reduce the need for workers in many areas. She will investigate whether current fertility patterns and investments in children are on course to meet those workforce requirements. Juhn will also examine how a changing labor market, marriage options, and challenges of work-life balance affect men’s and women’s desires for children and family.
Lawrence Kahn
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Lawrence M. Kahn, professor of labor economics and collective bargaining, and Francine D. Blau, professor of industrial and labor relations, both at Cornell University, will prepare an international study of labor market institutions (such as collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, and family leave) and their impact on labor market outcomes, including unemployment, wage trends, inequality, and women's pay.
Lawrence F. Katz
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Lawrence F. Katz, professor of economics at Harvard University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Claudia Goldin, professor of economics at Harvard University, program director for the Development of the American Economy, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, conducted historical research into the impact of technological and educational developments on the American economy during the years 1910 to 1960.
Neeraj Kaushal
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Kaushal and Yao Lu will complete a study comparing immigrant selection and assimilation in Canada and the U.S. Their research will systematically assess the relative selection of immigrants to these countries with respect to levels of education, host country language proficiency, and initial earnings. They will further examine the relative economic well-being of immigrants in these two countries after adjusting for different levels of immigrant selection. They will examine how these trends have shifted since 1990.