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Jocelyn Crowley

Rutgers University

Visiting Scholar

2005 to 2006

Jocelyn Crowley, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Rutgers University, will author a book on fathers’ rights groups in the United States that examines their membership, leadership, goals, and success in improving relations between fathers and children. Using interviews with 158 individuals and observational analyses of eight different groups, Crowley will investigate the men who belong to these groups, the ways they became involved in the father’s rights cause, and the public policy goals they are promoting.

William Alexander Darity, Jr.

Duke University

Visiting Scholar

2015 to 2016

Using data from the National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC), Darity will investigate the factors that drive racial wealth disparities. He will review prior studies on wealth transmission against the NASCC data to reassess the role that gifts and inheritances play in shaping the racial wealth gap. Darity will also examine the validity of the conventional belief that home ownership is the primary route to wealth accumulation for most Americans.

Michael Oppenheimer

Princeton University

Visiting Scholar

2005 to 2006

Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University, will write a book on how science affects public policy. He will discuss how non-governmental organizations mediate between scientists and policy-makers, and how this process shapes policy on technical issues. The book will focus on climate change, and how non-governmental organizations helped popularize a system of tradable pollution permits as a way to control acid rain and greenhouse gases

Kenneth Prewitt

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

2007 to 2008

Kenneth Prewitt (Fall 2007), Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University, will work on a book tracing the history of racial classification in the U.S. census. He will chart the evolution of the underlying purpose of the “race question” from one of overt discrimination against slaves, ethnic minorities, and immigrants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through more recent efforts to ensure that historically undercounted groups are accurately counted and thus receive a fair allotment of federal funding.

Kenneth Prewitt

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

2002 to 2003

Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, will spend the fall semester at Russell Sage working on two books for the Russell Sage Foundation census series. The first book will be an overview of the political economy of census taking, with a focus on Census 2000. A second book, co-authored with Norman Nie, will be an empirical analysis of the civic mobilization effort that increased cooperation rates in the 2000 census.

Michael A. Stoll

University of California, Los Angeles

Visiting Scholar

1999 to 2000

Michael Stoll, assistant professor of policy studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, will examine the state of employer demand for former welfare recipients in Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles. With the imposition of work requirements and time limits in the 1996 welfare reform legislation, it is important to understand the social and economic difficulties of moving welfare recipients to work. Using an extensive survey of employers he will examine the following questions: What barriers exist on the demand side?

David Thacher

University of Michigan

Visiting Scholar

2006 to 2007

David Thacher, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, will write a book that examines how empirical social science can contribute to the study of values and normative issues in public policy. Rather than examining the best means to achieve a given goal, the book will show how the worthiness of a goal can be gauged by social science. His research will use case studies in the criminal justice and social policy domains, asking for example whether certain approaches to policing can be justified by their empirical results.

Jane Waldfogel

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

2013 to 2014

Waldfogel along with Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, and Elizabeth Washbrook 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. They will analyze differences in school achievement among children of different socioeconomic status in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.