The Russell Sage Foundation recently approved ten research grants in its programs on Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality and in its special initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration. Two grants were co-funded with the Carnegie Corporation of New York. One supplemental grant was also approved to Matthew Johnson (Duke University) for the project, “Has the Changing Media Landscape Affected Labor Union Organizing? Evidence from Newspaper Closures.”
These research projects include studies on older workers’ willingness to pay for retiree health insurance; how rural workers find and maintain work and build community; how the influx of migrant children to New York City impacted public elementary school education; how the 2024 election influenced political identities, experiences, and attitudes; how private investor ownership impacted childcare; and the impact of higher education on women’s work across the lifecycle and on child wellbeing.
Following is a list of the recent research grants. Please click on each on for a brief description of the research project.
Future of Work
Laura Quinby (Boston College), Karolos Arapakis (Boston College), and Gal Wettstein (Boston College) will investigate older workers’ willingness to pay for retiree health insurance.
Evan Rose (University of Chicago) and Hsi-Ling Liao (University of Chicago) will evaluate employee outcomes for employees placed in jobs via Skills for Chicagoland’s Future, a demand-driven workforce development program.
Beth Schueler (University of Virginia) and Melissa Arnold Lyon (State University of New York, Albany) will investigate how district factors, such as teacher working conditions and district responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, are associated with collective bargaining among K-12 public school teachers in Virginia.
Winifred Tate (Colby College) and Suzanne Menair (Colby College) will examine how rural workers navigate finding and maintaining work and how they attempt to create resilient communities in the face of community decline.
Immigration and Immigrant Integration
Sarah Bishop (Baruch College, City University of New York) will investigate post-deportation experiences in El Salvador. – This grant is co-funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Kevin Shih (University of California, Riverside) will examine how the influx of young migrant children has impacted public elementary school education in New York City. – This grant is co-funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Linda Tropp (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Tatishe Nteta (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Seth K. Goldman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Efrén Pérez (University of California, Los Angeles) and Yuen Huo (University of California, L will examine how the 2024 presidential election influenced political identities, experiences, and attitudes.
Social, Political, and Economic Inequality
Kim Pernell (University of Texas, Austin) will investigate how the increasing trend of private investor ownership has influenced the price and quality of childcare.
Jesse Rothstein (University of California, Berkeley) and David Card (University of California, Berkeley) will examine the role of geographic location on upward (or downward) mobility.
Na’ama Shenhav (University of California, Berkeley) will investigate the impacts of higher education on women’s work across the life cycle and on child wellbeing.