The Russell Sage Foundation has launched several research collaborations with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Over the last year, seven projects have been co-funded with the Kellogg Foundation and nine projects have been co-funded with the MacArthur Foundation.

RSF president Sheldon Danziger remarked, “I am extremely pleased that the Russell Sage Foundation has been able to collaborate with the Kellogg Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.” He added, “We receive many high-quality social science research proposals and these partnerships allow us to fund a greater number of projects than we could support with our own funds.”

The projects co-funded with the Kellogg Foundation included research by Kyle Handley (University of Michigan) and Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) on the impact of offshoring on U.S. firms and workers; a project by Susan J. Lambert and Julia R. Henly (University of Chicago) on the precarious work schedules of young adults in the U.S.; and a study of intergenerational wealth transmission by Fabian Pfeffer (University of Michigan) and Alexandra Killewald (Harvard University).

Recent collaborations with the MacArthur Foundation have included a study by Arindrajit Dube (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) that will use innovative new methods to assess the labor market effects of durable minimum wage increases; and new research on how much private school contributes to the educational gaps between children from low- and high-income families by Richard Murnane (Harvard University) and Sean Reardon (Stanford University).

Danziger stated, “I hope we can continue to collaborate with these and other foundations to further Mrs. Sage’s 1907 mandate that the RSF support ‘the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.’”

Click here to view all RSF research collaborations with the Kellogg and MacArthur Foundations.