The Foundation has selected two Visiting Researchers who will be in residence in Spring 2016. Ajay Chaudry (New York University) will work on a book that analyzes policy frameworks to provide early childhood services to children and families. He will also extend the research from his 2004 RSF book Putting Children First and explore the challenges faced by low-income single mothers when their children were growing up. Daniel S. Nagin (Carnegie Mellon University) will research how the experience of imprisonment affects rates of recidivism among offenders, using new methods to analyze merged data from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the Pennsylvania State Police.

Visiting Researchers are non-funded scholars who work in residence at the Foundation for periods of 1-3 months on projects related to RSF’s core programs. The next deadline for applications is May 2, 2016 for residency in the fall of 2016.

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