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S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
University of California, Riverside
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Ramakrishnan will write a book that examines the contours and determinants of American public opinion on immigration. Using survey data and embedded survey experiments from 2006 through 2010, he will analyze the relative importance of racial prejudice, partisanship, economic anxiety, and rule-of-law concerns in shaping American attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policy. His project will also consider the ways in which public opinion on immigration may be similar to opinion on race-related issues such as affirmative action, and economic issues such as trade and offshoring.
James E. Rauch
University of California, San Diego
Visiting Scholar
1995 to 1996
James E. Rauch, associate professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, engaged in a study of what he terms the "network/search view of trade" as applied to the difficulties African Americans experience in gaining a foothold in inner-city retail trade. Many connections between buyers and sellers, he argues, are made through a "search" process conditioned by proximity and pre-existing ties ("networks"), rather than through centralized markets.
Alexandrea Ravenelle
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Ravenelle will work on a book examining the longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on precarious workers. She has conducted in-depth interviews with more than 70 workers to better understand how low-wage and restaurant workers and gig workers make sense of their experiences with the pandemic and how they assess risk.
Rose Razaghian
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University, John Lapinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and Rose Razaghian, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, form a working group that will examine the entire history of Congressional roll call votes to study how the type of policy at stake in legislative debate determines political relationships and outcomes.
Sean Reardon
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Reardon will write a book about the recent patterns in racial and socioeconomic academic achievement gaps in the U.S., focusing on achievement trends in metropolitan school districts. He will assess the extent to which achievement gaps can be attributed to socioeconomic disparities between groups. He will also estimate the effects of a set of education policies on ameliorating these gaps.
Adam Reich
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2022 to 2023
Reich will explore the changing prevalence and organization of work among incarcerated people during the era of mass incarceration from the 1970s to the present. He will analyze data from the Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities and in-depth interviews with state correctional administrators and formerly incarcerated people. He will explain the decline of prison labor since 1970 and variation in how prison labor has been and continues to be understood and organized across the states.
Cordelia Reimers
Hunter College
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Cordelia W. Reimers, professor of economics at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, studied changes in the wage structure of ethnic and racial minority groups in the United States, especially African Americans and Mexican Americans. She completed a paper on "Unskilled Immigration and Changes in Wage Distribution of Black, Mexican American, and Non-Hispanic White Male Dropouts" and also wrote a chapter on "Compensation for the Latino Worker" for the National Council of La Raza's State of Hispanic America 1997.
Ricardo A. M. R. Reis
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Reis will research the impact of social transfer programs, including unemployment and disability insurance, Medicaid, and pensions, on employment and economic activity during a recession. He will analyze whether such programs—and the increased government spending that accompanies them—are effective at lowering unemployment and if they help or hinder economic recovery.
Christopher Rhomberg
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Christopher Rhomberg, Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University, will write a book on the current crisis of American unions, focusing on the breakdown of collective bargaining. Using archival and interview research, he will explore the Detroit newspaper strike of the 1990s as a key example of modern industrial relations and social movements.
Wilbur C. Rich
Wellesley College
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Wilbur Rich, professor of political science at Wellesley College, will work on a book about the role of the press in shaping public conceptions of U.S. city mayors, including David Dinkins, former mayor of New York, and Thomas Menino, mayor of Boston. Both mayors were the first of their ethnic group to lead their cities, and both owe their public image to the press. Mayors who boast a popular public image, due to favorable press coverage, can exercise control and influence far beyond the limited powers of their office.
Cecilia L. Ridgeway
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Ridgeway will investigate the ways that social status functions as a de facto system of inequality and how this system is related larger structures of inequality. She will analyze a broad range of empirical evidence to understand how status matters to people and how hierarchies are formed. She will also study how these processes help transform group differences based on power or resources into systems of inequality based on gender, race, and class.
Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, professor of economics and education at Columbia University, will write a book that examines the changing demographics, socioeconomic status, and racial identity of the nearly 7 million Puerto Ricans living in the United States—both on the island and the mainland—during the 1990s. Rivera-Batiz will analyze the forces that contributed to the drop of migration to the mainland, the sharp drop in national Puerto Rican poverty levels and the persistence of poverty among Puerto Ricans living in New York City.
Steven O. Roberts
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2021 to 2022
Roberts will integrate research from the social sciences and humanities to identify the psychological bases of racism and suggest strategies for dismantling racial bias. His research will build on previous findings that the belief in white supremacy emerges early in childhood. He will work on three projects to advance the social scientific understanding of racism: a theoretical paper on descriptive-to-prescriptive reasoning, a theoretical paper on white supremacy, and three empirical papers on white supremacy in psychological science.
Belinda Robnett
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Robnett will complete a book titled Surviving Success: Black Political Organizations in “Post-Racial” America, which will help to explain why organizations at the forefront of the Civil Rights successes of the 1960s, such as the NAACP and the SCLC, were unable to effect a comparable level of systemic change in the decades that followed. The book will contribute to a neglected area of black history, and expand our understanding of the factors that strengthen or weaken post-movement organization success.
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Queens College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Rodríguez-Planas will explore how low-income and minority urban college students have coped during the pandemic. She will draw on surveys with over 24,000 students, City University of New York academic records, and New York City COVID data to examine how the pandemic affected students’ academic performance, as well as their educational and labor market expectations and trust in the government and members of their community.
John Roemer
University of California, Davis
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
John E. Roemer, professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, will expand on a theory of distributive justice aimed at creating equal access to social resources. In particular, Roemer will apply economic techniques to the problem of equalizing educational opportunities for American youth by investigating what allocation of the national education budget would be required. In a second project, Roemer will examine how political parties compete and maintain equilibrium in a democracy.
Thomas Romer
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Sean Corcoran, Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University-Sacramento, Thomas Romer, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Howard Rosenthal, Professor of Politics at New York University, form a working group that will construct a comprehensive time-series database with demographic, political, and financial information on American school districts. While at the Foundation, they will use information from this database to begin writing a book about the political economy of financing U.S.
Eva Rosen
Georgetown University
Visiting Scholar
2022 to 2023
Rosen (together with Philip ME Garboden) will co-author a book examining the supply-side dynamics of low-end rental housing markets in four cities. They will use over 150 semi-structured interviews with landlords and property managers, ethnographic observations, and administrative data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to better understand how low-end rentals work for poor tenants.
Harvey S. Rosen
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Harvey S. Rosen, professor of economics at Princeton University, examined data from the Panel Study on Income Dynamics and other sources for a study of the relation of entrepreneurship to income mobility. He completed the first draft of a paper in which he concludes that there is some merit to the notion that self-employment provides a way for low-income individuals to increase their incomes, although for higher income people, self employment often leads to downward movement in the earnings distribution.
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Howard Rosenthal
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Sean Corcoran, Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University-Sacramento, Thomas Romer, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Howard Rosenthal, Professor of Politics at New York University, form a working group that will construct a comprehensive time-series database with demographic, political, and financial information on American school districts. While at the Foundation, they will use information from this database to begin writing a book about the political economy of financing U.S.