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. Two grants were co-funded with the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Two supplemental grants were also approved, one to Charissa Cheah (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) for the project “Discrimination, Identity, Socialization, and Civic Engagement among Asian American Families During COVID-19,” and one to Christian Zlolniski (University of Texas, Arlington) for the project “Urban Braceros: Recruitment and Employment of Mexican H-2B Visa Workers in Texas Landscaping Industry.”
The research projects include studies on trust in partisan poll watchers; how algorithmic management systems affect job quality and worker wellbeing for guest room attendants in hotels; the impact of workplace immigration raids on local demographic and economic outcomes; the political incorporation of naturalized citizens; attitudes towards the recent influx of immigrants in New York City; how Black and Latine tech entrepreneurs understand and manage ethnic and racial exclusion; how public investments during the pandemic impacted family resources and child wellbeing; and how changes in states’ work requirements for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program under the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 affect state budgets and the wellbeing of low-income families.
Following is a list of the recent research grants. Please click on each one for a brief description of the research project.
Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
Erik Kimbrough (Chapman University) and Eric Groenendyk (University of Memphis) will examine partisan norms before and after the 2024 presidential election.
John Marshall (Columbia University) will examine how sustained exposure to political messages from social media influencers affects attitudes and behavior.
Geoffrey Sheagley (University of Georgia) and Mollie J. Cohen (Purdue University) will examine trust in poll watchers in Georgia after the 2024 election.
Future of Work
Mabel Abraham (Columbia University) and N. Derek Brown (Columbia University) will examine whether remote work preferences exacerbate racial and gender inequality in the labor market.
Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University) will examine how the effects of working from home on worker wellbeing, productivity, and other labor market outcomes vary across groups.
Christine Riordan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Hye Jin Rho (Michigan State University), Jodi L. Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon University), Sarah Fox (Carnegie Mellon University), and Betsy B. Stringam (New Mexico State University) will examine the role of technology in shaping hotel guest room attendant job quality and wellbeing.
Johannes Schmieder (Boston University) and Adrien Bilal (Harvard University) will evaluate how well the Black-White earnings, wage, and employment gaps can be measured in the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data.
Immigration and Immigrant Integration
Chiara Galli (University of Chicago) will examine how the state, civil society, and local residents have responded to the influx of asylum-seekers in Chicago. – This grant is co-funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York
Erin Hofmann (Utah State University), Guadalupe Márquez-Velarde (Utah State University), and Sherzod Akhundjanov (Utah State University) will examine the impact of workplace immigration raids on local demographics and economic outcomes.
Mashail Malik (Harvard University) and William Marble (University of Pennsylvania) will examine the political incorporation of naturalized citizens. – This grant is co-funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Dante Donati (Columbia University) and Lena Song (Columbia University) will examine how exposure to social media posts supporting racial justice impacts subsequent social media engagement and off-platform behaviors.
Philip Kasinitz (CUNY Graduate Center) and Liza G. Steele (CUNY Graduate Center) will examine attitudes towards the recent influx of migrants in New York City.
Malay Majmundar (National Academy of Sciences), Iliya Gutin (National Academy of Sciences), and Anne R. Pebley (University of California Los Angeles and National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population) will lead a National Academy of Sciences committee that will assess knowledge gaps on refugee and asylee migrant resettlement and integration in the United States.
Matthew Nelsen (University of Miami) will examine how residents in San Francisco, CA, St. Paul, MN, Detroit, MI, and Asheville, NC, all of which are pursuing reparations policies, understand the proposed initiatives.
María G. Rendón (University of California, Irvine) will examine the Mexican incorporation process across generations and immigration cohorts in Long Beach, CA.
Alicia Sheares (Stanford University) will examine how Black and Latine tech entrepreneurs understand and manage ethnic and racial exclusion.\
Social, Political, and Economic Inequality
Natacha Blain (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) and Emily Backes (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) will lead a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that will review and assess the impacts of the federal Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit on the child poverty rate.
Emily Cook (Tulane University), Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and John R. Stromme (Vanderbilt University) will examine the extent to which financial aid policies affect college enrollment, in-college decisions, graduation, and labor market outcomes for students across in the income distribution.
Jesse Gourevitch (Environmental Defense Fund) and Carolyn Kousky (Environmental Defense Fund) will examine how the effects of flood events on mortgage outcomes (e.g., mortgage delinquency or default) vary across race and income groups.
Margot Jackson (Brown University) and Taryn Morrissey (American University) will examine how public investments during the pandemic impacted family resources and child wellbeing.
Joshua Kaiser (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and David McElhattan (Purdue University) will examine the role of collateral sanctions – state-imposed penalties in addition to prison, probation, and criminal fines – in social exclusion.
Gabrielle Pepin (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) and Josep Nadal-Fernandez (Michigan State University) will examine and how changes in states’ work requirements for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program affect state budgets and the wellbeing of low-income families.