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John Ermisch
University of Essex
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
John Ermisch (Spring 2008), Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, U.K., will study intergenerational mobility, focused on how family formation and parental behavior affects children’s subsequent socioeconomic mobility. He will employ two large data sets to investigate what types of parent-child interactions during a child’s preschool years are conducive to later educational and economic success. He will also examine how parental income, education, socio-economic status, and marital status affect child outcomes.
Wendy Nelson Espeland
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Wendy N. Espeland, associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University, will write a book examining the social significance of commensuration -- the invention of a common system of measurement and evaluation for things that would not be directly comparable otherwise. Prices, cost-benefit ratios, and utility rankings are three familiar forms of commensuration, making it possible for heterogeneous goods to be traded off against each other.
Peter Evans
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Peter Evans, the Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will assess the opportunities for globalizing the labor movement. Drawing on official documentation from labor unions, international confederations, global institutions, and transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs), he will research the depth and seriousness of efforts undertaken by U.S. unions to expand globally and the varying responses to these efforts by third world labor movements. Evans will examine the potential effects of a global labor movement on U.S.
Katherine Pratt Ewing
Duke University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Katherine Ewing, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Religion at Duke University, will write a book comparing young Muslim immigrants in two American and two German cities, examining how they handle differences between their culture of origin and life in liberal democratic societies. She will explore how these young Muslims form their identities and how their parents attempt to instill in them traditional Muslim social practices and gender roles that differ from American and German norms.
Erik Eyster
London School of Economics
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Eyster and Matthew Rabin will investigate the nature of learning and information transmission in social and economic settings. Eyster will continue his work on the way people use data to make investments, including their understanding of statistical correlation and the inferences investors make from declining stock prices and experience with a firm’s product.
Jacob Faber
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2020 to 2021
Faber will complete several articles about the expansion of the alternative financial services (AFS) industry over the past two decades. The dramatic growth of payday lenders, check cashers, pawnshops, and other AFS is concerning since such services tend to be more expensive than traditional banking services. He will use a combination of administrative, business, sociodemographic, and survey data to examine the individual, neighborhood, and metropolitan, drivers of AFS proliferation.
Henry Farber
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Henry Farber, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University, will pursue three studies on: (1) the effect of the decline of unions in the economy on the wages of non-union workers; (2) strategic behavior in union representation elections; and (3) the labor supply of New York City taxi drivers. Most work on the decline of unions in the U.S. has focused on union workers. Most workers are not unionized, however, and Farber hypothesizes that the long-term decline of unions has had substantial effects on these workers as well.
Cynthia Feliciano
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Feliciano and Rubén Rumbaut 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.
Catherine Fennell
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Fennell will complete a book that follows the transformation of a Chicago public housing complex into a mixed-income, racially diverse “new community.” She will also examine how legal arguments and public sentiments fixated on the decay of Chicago public housing have impacted its former residents’ pursuit of legal redress and political recognition.
Raquel Fernandez
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Raquel Fernandez, Professor of Economics at New York University, will explore the relationship between gender inequality, marital sorting, and the intergenerational transmission of inequality. Using a variety of U.S. and international data sets, she will examine whether and how improvements in the employment prospects for women affect their decision about if, when, and whom to marry.
Frank F. Furstenberg
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, will work on a book examining how U.S. policies relating to welfare, sex education, work, and marriage affect teenage childbearing rates, as well as what happens to teenagers who do get pregnant. He will argue in favor of adopting a public-health approach to managing teenage sexual initiation and moving away from an "abstinence only" policy.
Gary S. Fields
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Gary S. Fields, professor of labor economics and economics at Cornell University, prepared a book manuscript on Poverty, Inequality, Well-Being, and Economic Growth. He combined empirical evidence from developing and advanced countries with the latest theoretical methods to analyze the effects of economic development on poverty, labor market conditions, and economic well-being. Fields' interpretation of economic progress built on such questions as: Who benefits more from economic growth and why?
Gary Alan Fine
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Gary Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, will work on a project examining what the spread of rumors about terrorists and terrorism reveals about social trust within communities, and how this trust is solidified into norms of communication. Working with a list of rumors that he has compiled about immigration and terrorism over the last decade, Fine will develop a theory of how rumors impact community beliefs, norms, and trust.
Claude S. Fischer
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Claude S. Fischer, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will work on a non-technical book summarizing what is known about whether and how the personal networks of Americans changed historically, particularly in the last generation or so. Fischer plans to analyze the networks’ sizes, compositions, structures, and intensities.
Susan T. Fiske
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Susan T. Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, will advance a project exploring envy upwards and contempt downwards: how people respond socially, cognitively, and neurally to people from low-status outgroups (such as undocumented immigrants, the homeless, welfare recipients, injection drug users) and to people from high-status outgroups (rich people, Asians, Jews, minority professionals, and career women).
Lori Flores
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Visiting Scholar
2020 to 2021
Flores will work on a book about how Americans gained an appetite, in tandem, for Latin American food and Latin American/Latinx food labor since the mid 20th century. Although Latin American food is much beloved, Latinx food workers—from farmworkers to restaurant workers to street vendors—experience discrimination, xenophobia, criminalization, invisibility, and exploitation. Flores will trace the history and treatment of Latinx workers (both citizen and migrant) in the Northeast region’s food industry, and their sociocultural impact on the region from 1940 to the present.
James R. Flynn
University of Otago
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..
Nancy Folbre
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will extend her previous estimates of the economic value of family work by comparing the time devoted to family care in four English-speaking countries and examining the amount of labor (both paid and unpaid) that Americans supply in caring for others. Folbre will parse data from several recent surveys on people’s incomes and their use of time to get a more accurate picture of the differences in standards of living between households with and without children.
Erica Gabrielle Foldy
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Tamara Buckley, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations and Counseling Programs, at Hunter College, and Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, form a working group that will bring the insights of both psychology and management to bear on fostering learning and effectiveness in culturally diverse teams. They theorize that acknowledging and engaging cultural differences facilitates team learning better than a “color-blind” approach.
Cybelle Fox
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Fox will write a book on the causes and consequences of the rise of restrictions on immigrants’ access to social welfare. She will compare three seminal moments of federal policymaking when the issue of non-citizens’ access to social assistance came to the fore: FDR’s New Deal, Nixon’s legal status restrictions, and Clinton’s welfare reforms.