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Lara Shore-Sheppard
Williams College
Visiting Scholar
2022 to 2023
Shore-Sheppard will examine pre-retirement (ages 50-61) households with multigenerational or skipped-generation living arrangements. She will focus on how the generosity of safety net programs for families with children, social and economic factors, and the interaction between these factors and safety net generosity impact living arrangements. She will also explore the extent to which living arrangements in pre-retirement years affect the well-being of older adults.
Timothy M. Smeeding
Syracuse University
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.
Kenneth Sokoloff
University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Kenneth Sokoloff, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, will work on a comparative economic history of the Americas. He will argue that factors of production (e.g. climate and population) predisposed Caribbean colonies - which were well suited for specialization in crops that could be produced cheaply on large slave plantations - to more inequality than existed in northern colonies.
Robert Solow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RSF Nobelists
Robert Solow is the Russell Sage Foundation’s Robert K. Merton Scholar and Institute Professor Emeritus at M.I.T. He was a visiting scholar at the foundation from 1999–2000 and became the Merton Scholar in 2001. Known in particular for his work on theories of economic growth, Solow is the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1961), the National Medal of Science (1999), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014), in addition to the Nobel Prize.
Robert Solow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Robert Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will co-chair the steering committee for the Foundation's project (co-funded by the Century Foundation) on sustaining low unemployment. Solow will also pursue two research projects of his own. In the first, Solow will model how productivity gains depend upon technical change being "embodied" in new investments of physical capital (the latest computer chip technology, for instance, is of no benefit to a firm until that firm invests in new, faster computers).
Wolfgang Streeck
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Wolfgang Streeck, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, will produce articles and book chapters for three projects: a conference volume on “commonalities of capitalism,” an exploration of the social-structural implications of flexible employment, and an inventory of “concepts of control” in postwar social science.
Wolfgang Streeck
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Wolfgang Streeck, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, will spend the spring at the Foundation finishing a book on the ongoing liberalization of the postwar German political economy. He will examine the process by which markets begin to take on tasks once handled by social regulation, asking how such reforms can be put in place when political resistance to them is high.
Jon Tebes
University of Notre Dame
Visiting Researcher
Jon Tebes will work on a project that examines how alternate forms of policing affect long-term outcomes of teenage residents, including educational attainment, arrests and incarceration, and employment and earnings. He will leverage two policy reforms that fundamentally altered teenagers’ exposure to neighborhood policing practices. The first is a reform of the New York City Police Department, which, due to a federal lawsuit, reduced patrol officers’ ability to conduct pedestrian stops.
Richard H. Thaler
RSF Nobelists
Richard Thaler is a former RSF trustee, former Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar, and a member of the foundation’s Behavioral Economics Roundtable. He is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Richard H. Thaler
University of Chicago
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Richard Thaler is a former RSF trustee and a member of the foundation’s Behavioral Economics Roundtable. He is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Chris Tilly
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Visiting Scholar
1995 to 1996
Chris Tilly, associate professor in the department of policy and planning at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, supervised the completion and data processing of the in-depth employer interviews that form part of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. With colleagues Joleen Kirchenman and Philip Moss, he wrote a paper assessing the impact of the formality of the hiring process on minority representation in a firm's work force. Another paper analyzes employers' views of their space requirements in relation to location and hiring decisions.
Jean Tirole
RSF Nobelists
Jean Tirole is a member of the foundation's Behavioral Economics Roundtable and the founder of the Summer Institute on Economics and Psychology at the University of Toulouse, which was cosponsored by RSF.
Sarah E. Turner
University of Virginia
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Sarah E. Turner, assistant professor of education and economics at the University of Virginia, will continue her research on how educational opportunities available in colleges and universities affect the labor market. In work previously funded by the Foundation, Turner discovered that the number of university degrees awarded in a state has only a modest effect on the number of university-educated workers in that state; demand in local labor markets is apparently an important variable.
Miguel Urquiola
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Urquiola is part of a working group (with W. Bentley MacLeod), which will examine the structure of educational markets, including how students are matched to schools and whether the use of standardized tests in schools impacts student performance and their potential in the labor market. Separately, W. Bentley MacLeod will analyze the role of different forms of compensation in labor markets and in the growth of inequality.
Eric Verhoogen
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2018 to 2019
Verhoogen will study the relationship between unionization and technology adoption in U.S. manufacturing. Using data from the National Labor Relations Board, Census surveys, and a new database of collective bargaining contracts, he will compare firms where unions narrowly won representation to firms where they narrowly lost to analyze the extent to which union contracts either encourage or discourage the adoption of new technologies.
Till von Wachter
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Von Wachter will assess the short- and long-term effects of layoffs on individual career outcomes and analyze how layoffs in different industries relate to labor market trends such as earnings inequality, employment stability, and increases in low-wage service employment.
Elizabeth Washbrook
University of Bristol
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Washbrook along with Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, and Jane Waldfogel will build upon a current RSF-funded comparative project on educational inequality. This working group will write a book on child development and public policies in four countries.
Niels Westergaard-Nielsen
Aarhus School of Business
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Niels Westergaard-Nielsen, Professor of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, will analyze Denmark’s success in helping people escape low-wage work relatively quickly compared to other advanced economies.
Morgan Williams, Jr.
Barnard College
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Williams will examine how municipal residency requirements, which mandate that public sector employees such as law enforcement officers live within the agency’s city limits, affect racial disparities in public safety and policing outcomes. Using novel historical and administrative data, Williams explores the extent to which benefits accrued from these policies, such as improved community relations, may come at the cost of constrained officer recruitment pools and potentially lower-quality policing.
Michael Wiseman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Michael Wiseman, professor of public affairs, urban and regional planning, and economics, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison, completed four chapters of a book that will examine the political struggle at the national level to encourage welfare reform at the state level and the outcome of welfare innovation in four states: California, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. He also launched two major studies of households affected by welfare reform in Wisconsin, in his capacity as vice chairman of the Wisconsin Works Management and Evaluation Project.