The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce 29 awards made in the fourth round of its Dissertation Research Grants program. Four grants are co-funded with the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and three grants are co-funded with The Policy Academies. This initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas. Applicants can request up to $15,000 in funding. Following is a list of the grant recipients. Please click on each one for a brief description of the research project.
Courtney Allen (University of Washington, Seattle) will examine the conditions under which hospitals in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina desegregated.
Lexin Cai (Cornell University) will compare student educational, behavioral, and occupational outcomes at schools with universal free school meal policies and free and reduced-priced programs with eligibility criteria.
Adriana Ceron (Yale University) will examine how deported Salvadoran migrants, who either reside in El Salvador or have reentered the U.S. without authorization, experience life after deportation.
Nicolette Dakin (Research Foundation of the City University of New York) will examine whether authoritarianism can be understood as a willingness to misuse state punishment against political opponents.
Jocelyn Drummond (New York University) will examine the boundaries around the Asian racial category.
Maxwell Fineman (Princeton University) will investigate the long-term effects of rent regulations on children’s outcomes.
John Green (Johns Hopkins University) examine how students’ beliefs about tuition costs, graduation probabilities, and returns on their degree influence their choices in completing a 2-year community college program and transferring to a 4-year institution.
Jose Gutierrez (University of California, Irvine) will examine how increased access to higher education has shaped the transition to adulthood for Latinos.
Kiara Hernández (Harvard University) will examine how social differences between native-born and foreign-born workers impacts worker solidarity.
Yuwen Ji (University of Wisconsin, Madison) will examine the policy interactions between the Community Reinvestment Act and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, as well as their limitations, in addressing the affordable housing crisis.
Kaia Kirk (Syracuse University) will examine the strategies that government bureaucrats of color use to participate in the federal bureaucratic policymaking process. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Jieun Lee (University of California, Riverside) will examine the political consequences of partisan dehumanization as well as potential remedies.
Lucia Lopez (University of Houston) will examine how effort-signaling policy features, such as work requirements, shape public support and perceptions of housing voucher recipients.
Neha Lund (Brown University) will examine how advocates for migrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) make claims for expanding TPS protections, build coalitions, and legally advocate for immigrants with TPS.
Samuel Lutzker (University of California, Los Angeles) will examine the experiences of vehicle residents, including how they navigate criminalization by local governments and targeted social service programs.
Angie Monreal (University of California, Irvine) will examine the reentry and reintegration experiences of deported return migrants.
Mehr Mumtaz (Ohio State University) will investigate how migration experiences differ between Afghan refugees by gender.
Theodore Naff (University of California, Los Angeles) will create a model for optimal wage insurance to address persistent, long-term income instability due to mass layoffs.
Charlotte O’Herron (Harvard University) will compare hiring practice biases between temporary help agencies and traditional employers. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Anwuli Okwuashi (St. Louis University) will examine how limited access to banks widens racial homeownership gaps. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (Harvard University) will examine whether a supervisor’s identity impacts how hiring agents perceive and evaluate a diverse pool of job candidates. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Myera Rashid (Northwestern University) will examine how technological changes, occupational segregation, and women’s organizations have impacted women’s employment and economic outcomes.
Gonzalo Respighi Grasso (University of California, Santa Cruz) will examine how rent control policies influence households’ decisions to move for better job opportunities. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
John Rooker (University of Wisconsin, Madison) will examine how working-class men discuss and understand politics in their daily working lives. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Taesoo Song (University of California, Berkeley) will explore how housing supply shortages impact racial segregation and residential patterns among Asian Americans.
Kamelia Stavreva (Columbia University) will examine how skin tone influences economic outcomes within racial groups over time.
Laura Uribe (University of California, San Diego) will examine how perceived status shapes Latinos’ political attitudes, behaviors, and ideologies.
Anna Walther (University of Wisconsin, Madison) will investigate the differences in financial security by race, ethnicity, and partnership status in the year preceding and following childbirth.
Duan Zhang (University of Missouri, Columbia) will examine the impact of job loss on criminal behavior. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.