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Miles Corak
University of Ottawa
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Corak along with Bruce Bradbury, Jane Waldfogel, 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.
Sean Corcoran
California State 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.
Dora L. Costa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Dora L. Costa, associate professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will document the long run evolution of American living standards from the mid-19th century to the present. Conventional thinking equates money income with well-being and economic growth with gains in living standards. Costa will adopt a more complete definition of living standards, measuring consumption, hours worked, and health.
Christina Cross
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
2025 to 2026
Cross will examine the varying impact of single parenthood on academic, mental health, and behavioral outcomes among African American, White, Latino, and Asian children. She will also investigate what factors may cause variation in the effects of single parenthood, such as nonresident father involvement, pathways to single parenthood, and social stigma related to single parenthood. She will analyze data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.
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.
Maurice Crul
University of Amsterdam
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Maurice Crul, senior researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, will work on a collaborative book that compares European and American second-generation immigrant outcomes using three studies: The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES), Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York (ISGMNY), and Immigrant and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMML
Thomas J. Csordas
Case Western Reserve University
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Thomas J. Csordas, professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, analyzed data from a National Institute of Mental Health project on the social and health consequences of healing practices among Navajo Indians. His research aimed at understanding the ways in which ritual healing can be integrated into the formal health care system in dealing with depression, substance/alcohol abuse, and other health problems of the Navajo community.
Sandra Danziger
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Sandra Danziger, associate professor of social work at the University of Michigan, and Sheldon Danziger, the Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, will assess how the 1996 welfare reform has affected the work and well-being of single mothers and their families in a book entitled After Welfare: Toward a Work-Based Safety Net.
Sheldon Danziger
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Sheldon Danziger, the Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, and Sandra Danziger, associate professor of social work at the University of Michigan, will assess how the 1996 welfare reform has affected the work and well-being of single mothers and their families in a book entitled After Welfare: Toward a Work-Based Safety Net.
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.
Christian Davenport
University of Maryland
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Christian Davenport, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, will complete a book exploring how the September 11 attacks affected the policing of protest in the United States. Using a database of protest events in the United States from 1980 to 2005, he will examine what makes police responsive to protests, what leads police to use physical force or violence against protestors, and how these factors have changed in recent years.
Kay Deaux
City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Kay Deaux, distinguished professor of psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, will study the immigration process from a social psychological perspective. She will focus on the ways immigrant identities evolve in the face of pressure to maintain ethnic traditions while adapting to the new norms, expectations, and stereotypes they encounter in the United States. Why, for example, do some members of a West Indian community shift to an African American identity while others maintain their West Indian identity?
Gregory DeFreitas
Hofstra University
Visiting Scholar
1995 to 1996
Gregory DeFreitas, associate professor of economics at Hofstra University, studied the socioeconomic impact on urban youth of recent immigration. He analyzed data from a survey that examines the experiences and attitudes of New York City employers concerning their employment of youth, immigrants, and others. This analysis, along with a study of the evolution of urban youth employment since the mid-nineteenth century, will form the basis of a book.
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Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, will work on three projects related to how the culture of medicine and the organization of health care contribute to disparities in medical treatment and health care by race, ethnicity, and class. Why do such disparities exist? How should we critically analyze current data, assess limitations, and include multiple perspectives in addressing this topic?
Mesmin Destin
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Destin will explore the connections between students’ socioeconomic status, identity, and academic outcomes. He will examine whether school-based programs that focus on developing personal narratives and maintaining social support can improve academic performance and health for high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds. He will also conduct lab experiments to investigate how low-income college students’ sense of uncertainty about their own status may decrease their likelihood of seeking academic support and affect their psychological well-being.
William T. Dickens
Northeastern University
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
William T. Dickens, Professor, Northeastern University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, James R. Flynn, Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Richard E. Nisbett, Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, will form a working group to develop a multi-level model of intelligence that explains the role of genes and physiology along with the role of environment in making individuals intellectually able..
Caitlin Dickerson
The Atlantic
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Dickerson will complete a book examining the impacts of deportation from the United States, a process that has upended the lives of millions of immigrants and their families and created a permanent underclass of workers living in fear. Dickerson documents that our reliance on these workers quietly lowers the cost of goods and services in the U.S. economy, an uneasy bargain supported by a multi-billion dollar industry in the service of enforcing deportation or capitalizing on these workers.
Paul J. DiMaggio
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
DiMaggio will analyze how the choices of individual members within social networks may influence those of other members and whether these "network effects" impact inequality by reinforcing advantages or disadvantages. DiMaggio’s work focuses on whether the adoption of a given practice—migrating to a new city, using a new communication technology—by one’s friends, kin, or associates increases the likelihood that one will adopt the same practice.
Thomas A. DiPrete
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Thomas A. DiPrete, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, will write a book that seeks to establish why the gender gap in educational performance is larger for black students than for white students. Recent U.S. statistics reveal a gender gap favoring females in high school completion, college entry, and college completion – and this gap is particularly large and growing among black students.
Nancy DiTomaso
Rutgers University
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Nancy DiTomaso, professor of organization management at Rutgers University, will write a book examining the reasons why many white Americans do not see the contradiction between the persistence of racial inequality in the U.S. and their belief in the existence of equal opportunity. With previous support from Russell Sage, DiTomaso found that white Americans disavow racism and believe that discrimination no longer holds back black Americans.