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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.
Howard Rosenthal
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Howard Rosenthal, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and professor of politics at Princeton University, will study the increase of income and wealth inequality in the United States since the 1970s and its effects on health and other outcomes. Rosenthal will analyze the political consequences of the vast increase in the number of households with high income and wealth levels over the past 50 years.
Wendy Roth
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2025 to 2026
Roth and Mary Campbell will examine how racial and ethnic identification change among multiracial individuals over time. They will investigate how patterns vary across racial and ethnic groups and will investigate the importance of demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics for predicting patterns of change. They will analyze data from the census, the American Community Survey, and Social Security records.
Bo Rothstein
Göteborg University
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Bo Rothstein, August Röhss professor of Political Science at Göteborg University, Sweden, will study the rise and fall of "the Swedish model," a unique political and economic system that for decades produced outstanding economic growth coupled with a generous welfare state. Rothstein illuminates the importance of trust in two key aspects of the Swedish model: stable alliances between unions and the ruling Social Democratic Party, and direct participation by major interest organizations in public policy formation.
Paul Rozin
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Paul Rozin, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence in the department of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, will complete a book, co-authored with Clark McCauley and Barry Schwartz, on the formation and maintenance of preferences and values.
Ariel Rubinstein
Tel Aviv University
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Ariel Rubinstein, professor of economics, Tel Aviv University and Princeton University, worked on a book, Modeling Bounded Rationality, and other topics in behavioral economics, including a joint project with Michelle Piccione on decision making with imperfect recall and an examination of game theoretical models with Martin Osborne. He also worked on another book, Language and Economics.
James Rule
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Visiting Scholar
1995 to 1996
James B. Rule, professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, completed the editing of Theory and Progress in Social Science, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and began work on a book dealing with the assimilation of computer technologies by more than 100 greater New York City private-sector firms. The book will examine the effects of computing on types and levels of employment, job surveillance and the quality of work, and the efficiency of organizations.
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Rubén G. Rumbaut
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Rumbaut and Cynthia Feliciano will work on a book that explores the socioeconomic, cultural, and political incorporation of the immigrant second generation, and how they completed their adult transitions during and after the Great Recession.
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Michigan State University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Ruben G. Rumbaut professor of sociology at Michigan State University, prepared a book on children of immigrants that examines their efforts to participate successfully in American educational, social and economic life. Drawing upon major new research in San Diego and Miami, Rumbaut focused on the progress of Latin, Asian, and Caribbean youth.
Abigail C. Saguy
University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Saguy will explore how the legal principle of gender neutrality – i.e., that the state should not overtly discriminate based on gender – has advanced gender equality and how new understandings of “gender neutrality” are being used today to promote diverse forms of gender expression and a wider range of gender identities. To investigate these questions, Saguy draws on news media reporting, jurisprudence, and in-depth interviews with activists.
Sunita Sah
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Sah will study conflicts of interest among advisors or leaders—such as physicians, financial advisors, and workplace managers—and the resulting psychological effects on both the advisors and those they supervise or advise. Using data collected from randomized experiments in the field and in the lab, she will analyze how advisors and advisees understand and react to conflict-of-interest disclosures. She will also study how such disclosures can improve the public’s decision-making, and analyze methods for improving the quality of advice given by advisors who have conflicts of interest.
Timothy A. Salthouse
University of Virginia
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Timothy A. Salthouse, Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, will write a book on the implications of age-related cognitive differences for functioning in society and particularly in the workplace. The book will explore why age-related declines in cognitive functioning are the norm for most cognitive skills yet most decision makers are older—suggesting more central roles than previously thought for past experience and knowledge in daily activities and decision making.
Nicholas Sambanis
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Nicholas Sambanis, assistant professor of political science at Yale University, will study the political economy of civil war in many countries between the years of 1945 and 2000 to test hypotheses related to the onset, duration, and recurrence of civil strife. To investigate the complexity of civil war, Sambanis has developed a model that offers an explanation of how and why a society transitions from one phase of civil war to the next; the model provides a way to test whether the phases share common risk factors.
Arnold J. Sameroff
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Arnold J. Sameroff, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, will study the factors that influence the achievement of a successful professional and family life for people who experienced economic and social hardships while growing up. Sameroff is interested in how best to improve disadvantaged individuals' mental health and socioeconomic potential and in whether efforts should be focused on institutions or on individuals.