Visiting Researchers Program
On an occasional basis, the Foundation has one or two available office spaces and considers applications for short-term fellowships by scholars who are conducting research relevant to the Foundation’s priority areas. Visiting Researchers are provided with an office at the Foundation, computers and software, and library access. Applicants who reside outside of the greater New York City area may be provided with a partially-subsidized apartment near RSF, if available.
Meet Our Visiting Researchers
Jason Brent
Jason Brent will work on a book examining the now largely forgotten effort at mass economic education to improve American’s understanding of the U.S. economy by the American Economic Association (AEA) in the 1960s. Brent will work on three chapters covering the AEA’s review of textbooks during political pressure campaigns…
Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker will work on a book that brings together literatures on populism, technocracy, digital governance, and digital infrastructures. The premise of the book is that digital infrastructures, including increasingly powerful forms of generative and agentic AI, are transforming politics and governance in fundamental…
Zoltan Hajnal
Zoltan Hajnal will work on a series of articles and a book investigating whether changing the timing of local elections impacts policy and, ultimately, reduces economic inequality. At different times over the past decade, six states have shifted from off-cycle local elections, where the only items on the ballot are…
Hilary Hoynes
Hilary Hoynes will work on a series of papers examining the effects of welfare reform in the United States on children’s long-term social and economic outcomes. She will revisit five randomized experiments conducted by MDRC in the years leading up to the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. In…
Daniel S. Nagin
Daniel Nagin will work on a book that examines bystander intervention and decision-making. He will integrate research on “reactive guardianship,” in which bystanders intervene in crimes in progress, and “proactive guardianship,” in which potential offenders are deterred from attempting a crime due to the risk of bystander…
Jon Tebes
Jon Tebes will work on a project that examines how alternate forms of policing affect long-term outcomes of teenage residents, including educational attainment, arrests and incarceration, and employment and earnings. He will leverage two policy reforms that fundamentally altered teenagers’ exposure to neighborhood policing…
Jane Waldfogel
Jane Waldfogel will work on a paper building upon her RSF book Child Benefits: A Smart Investment for America’s Future. Child Benefits looks at the impact of universal child benefits on family expenditures, fertility, parental employment, child poverty, and long-term health and wellbeing and makes a compelling case for…
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Visiting Researcher positions are available for visits of up to five months as space permits and do not come with any Foundation financial support.
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