The Russell Sage Foundation recently approved 22 research grants in its programs on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality and in the special initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration. Three of the recent grants were co-funded with the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The research projects include studies on the development of young adults’ social and political identities; the effects of employee hardship funds; the impact of climate-related disasters on workers’ labor market outcomes; the experiences of immigrants and children of immigrants in the military; how usage of the terms “Latinx” and “Latine” impacts feelings of inclusion and belonging; the role of the World War II G.I. Bill in Black-White wealth disparities; the impact of police militarization on communities; and the role employer policies and practices play in the persistence of the parental gender pay gap.
Following is a list of the recent research grants. Place click on each one for a brief description of the research project.
Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez (Arizona State University), Nathan D. Martin (Arizona State University), Angela A. Gonzales (Arizona State University), and Emir Estrada (Arizona State University) will examine how young adults’ social and political identities develop over the 2024 presidential election.
Future of Work
John Ahlquist (University of California, San Diego) will examine the extent to which Employee Hardship Funds affect workers’ feelings of financial security, workplace attachment, and support for unionization.
Gorkem Bostanci (University of British Columbia), Harun Alp (Federal Reserve Board), and Sergio Villalvazo (Federal Reserve Board) will investigate causes for the increase in outsourcing, how outsourcing impacts labor measurements, such as productivity and job creation, and how outsourcing impacts businesses’ ability to adapt to changing economic conditions.
Itzik Fadlon (University of California, San Diego) will investigate the extent to which firms’ employment and pay practices and local labor market opportunities affect the Black-White earnings gap.
Dania Francis (University of Massachusetts, Boston) and Keren M. Horn (University of Massachusetts, Boston) will examine the impacts of climate-related disasters on workers’ short-, medium-, and long-term labor market outcomes.
Zachary Schaller (Colorado State University, Fort Collins) will examine where unions have declined, who experienced the decline, and how it has affected labor market outcomes.
Immigration and Immigrant Integration
Daysi Diaz-Strong (University of Illinois, Chicago) will explore how gender impacts the lived experiences of undocumented Latinas in the Chicago suburbs. This grant is funded in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Sarah Lageson (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) will investigate how automated expungement policies impact removal outcomes for non-citizens facing deportation. This grant is funded in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Amy Lutz (Syracuse University) will explore the experiences of immigrants and children of immigrants in the military and their motivations for joining the military. This grant is funded in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Michael Pasek (University of Illinois, Chicago), Clara Wilkins (University of Washington), and Alexandra Filindra (University of Illinois, Chicago) will explore how White Christians use race and religion to evaluate who they perceive to be “true Americans.”
Kimberly Rios (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Michael A. Zarate (University of Texas, El Paso) will examine the relationship between the use of the terms “Latinx,” “Latino/a,” and “Latine” in colleges and universities and Hispanic/Latino/a American students’ feelings of belonging.
Christiane Szerman (University College London) and Lukas Althoff (Yale University) will investigate the extent to which the G.I. Bill contributed to racial wealth gap among veterans and their descendants.
Social, Political, and Economic Inequality
Omer Ali (University of Pittsburgh), Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh), and Andreas Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh) will examine how historical mortgage insurance practices by the Federal Housing Administration are related to the long-term trajectory of neighborhoods, residents, and racial inequality.
Delia Baldassarri (New York University) and Stuart Perrett (University of Manchester) will examine how voters with liberal positions on some issues and conservative positions on others navigate the 2024 election.
Hector Blanco Fernandez (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), David Cutler (Harvard University), and Noémie Sportiche, (Harvard University) will investigate the impact of moving low- and moderate-income households to high-opportunity areas on housing stability, neighborhood and health outcomes, and racial disparities.
Jon Gould (University of California, Irvine) and Belén Lowrey-Kinberg (University of California, Irvine) will examine how the election of reform-minded chief prosecutors affects defendant outcomes, particularly on racial disparities.
Elira Kuka (George Washington University), Adam Isen (Johns Hopkins University), and Bryan A. Stuart (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) will examine the extent to which providing individuals with information and assistance in applying for Unemployment Insurance increases benefit receipt.
Kenneth Lowande (University of Michigan) will investigate whether federal law enforcement programs disproportionately militarize police departments in low-income and minority communities and the consequences of police militarization for communities.
Taryn Morrissey (American University) and Daniel P. Miller (Boston University) will examine the association between the number of days since receipt of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and student math and reading test scores in the fourth and eighth grades.
Brenden Timpe (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) and Daniel Tannenbaum (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) will investigate the role that company’s policies and practices play in persistence of the parental gender pay gap.
Christopher Wildeman (Duke University), Martin Eiermann (Duke University), and Robert Apel (Rutgers University, Newark) will create new variable in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 that will allow researchers to distinguish between jailed and imprisoned respondents.
Christopher Wimer (Columbia University), Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), and Robert Hartley (Columbia University) will create and estimate a childcare-inclusive poverty measure that reflects the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences’ 2023 report on improvements to the measurement of poverty.