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Larisa Heiphetz
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Heiphetz will study how adults and children, including the children of incarcerated parents, conceive of incarceration and incarcerated people. Using experimental and interview data, she will investigate the extent to which adults and children view incarceration as the result of an individual’s innate character, their choices and behaviors, or societal factors such as socioeconomic inequality. She will then study the consequences of these perceptions on people’s attitudes toward those who have been incarcerated and test interventions designed to reduce stigma against them.
Jeffrey R. Henig
George Washington University
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Jeffrey R. Henig, professor of political science at George Washington University, will study the charter school movement as a case study of how for-profit and non-profit enterprises are taking on responsibilities formerly assigned to government. Charter schools blur the borders between public and private, but most of the thinking behind charter schools adopts a market model, assuming that charter schools will act like responsive commercial enterprises competing for customers.
Peter Hepburn
Rutgers University–Newark
Visiting Scholar
2026 to 2027
Since enactment in 2012, the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program has moved one in every five units of public housing out of the traditional public housing system and into other subsidy streams. While approaches to rental housing assistance in the past several decades have focused on strategies aimed at poverty deconcentration and dispersal, RAD entails place-based investment and attempts to keep communities intact.
Diana Hernández
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2021 to 2022
Hernández will write a book exploring families’ struggles to afford household energy. She will focus on energy insecurity – the inability to adequately meet household energy needs – a problem facing one in three U.S. households. She will analyze 100 in-depth interviews conducted across ten sites in the first study to examine the challenges that households face in accessing and affording electricity, natural gas, and fuel oils. Hernández will study how this issue varies across regions, including both urban and rural settings and cold and warm weather climates.
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Hertel-Fernandez will explore the consequences of right-to-work laws and other anti-union legislation passed in several states in recent decades. He will also draw from original surveys and field experiments to evaluate new strategies that unions might be able to implement to attract new members and regain clout given shifts in the economy and political climate.
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.
Shigeo Hirano
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Hirano will write a series of articles that examines how political reforms designed to insulate city workers from political forces by professionalizing the civil service and the city manager system have improved the performance of local governments. Using a rich original database that includes information on large and medium sized cities during the first half of the twentieth century, Hirano will examine whether the professionalization of city bureaucrats had any impact on government performance.
Charles Hirschman
University of Washington
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Charles Hirschman, professor and chair of the department of sociology at the University of Washington, will write a book on shifting ethnic divisions over long periods of history and across societies, particularly in North America and Southeast Asia. Although the ebb and flow of ethnic conflict has varied considerably across the globe, Hirschman observes the significance of such large-scale historical forces as the expansion of empires in premodern societies, the spread of nations and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and long distance migration.
Arnold K. Ho
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2018 to 2019
Ho will examine how the growth of the multiracial population over the last two decades has shaped the racial hierarchy in the U.S. He will investigate how social attitudes, such as (anti-)egalitarianism and racial prejudice, influence how different racial groups perceive multiracial individuals of white-black and white-Asian descent. He will also investigate why monoracial people are more likely to apply the “one drop rule” to multiracial people in certain circumstances.
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.
Daniel Hopkins
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2021 to 2022
Hopkins will examine how racial issues have become so prominent in American political and public discourse in recent decades and how this shift has affected whites’ political opinions and behavior. He will measure how different sources of public discourse, including newspapers, television transcripts, press releases, and presidential speeches, have addressed and exacerbated racialized issues and events. He will examine the hypothesis that social media fosters increased attention to racialized issues and events.
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.
James. S. House
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
House will complete a book suggesting that the resolution to the nation’s health care “crisis” is to institute policies designed to improve overall population health rather than policies that control the supply and cost of health care. As part of this analysis, he will examine social disparities in health over the adult life course, especially by socioeconomic status, and describe the limits of current and past efforts to reform health care.
Michael Hout
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Michael Hout, professor of sociology and director of the Survey Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, conducted research on the dynamics of low-wage labor markets, writing two RSF working papers and completing a paper, "Speedbumps on the Road to Meritocracy," which argues that upward social mobility has been decreasing and downward social mobility increasing since the 1970s.
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.
Amy Hsin
Queens College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Hsin and Sofya Aptekar will examine the extent to which lack of legal status affects the lives of undocumented youth attending colleges in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Drawing from administrative data and interviews with students, they will study differences in educational and employment trajectories, family dynamics, and other outcomes among undocumented youth from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.
John D. Huber
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
John D. Huber, professor of political science at Columbia University, will write a book on how low- and middle-income voters create electoral coalitions favoring progressive social policies. Huber’s study will employ a comparative cross-cultural analysis to examine how social and political factors such as wedge issues, political polarization, religion and racial and ethnic diversity divide low-income and middle class voters.
Diane Hughes
New York University
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Diane Hughes, assistant professor of psychology at New York University, analyzed data from the MacArthur Study of Mid-Life Diversity, a study of 1,500 adults from four minority groups living in New York City and Chicago. One focus of the study is the extent to which ethnic minorities experience prejudice and discrimination in the workplace and community. She completed several papers examining the effects of this exposure on parents' psychological and physical health and on the nature of their communications with children about race and intergroup relations.
Onoso Imoagene
New York Univerity, Abu Dhabi
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Imoagene will study the experiences and outcomes of Nigerian and Ghanaian immigrants who migrated to the U.S. via the Diversity Visa Lottery Program. She will draw from interviews and ethnographic research to show how the diversity visa program and other immigration policies affect not just migrants, but their families and communities in their countries of origin.