For decades, RSF has provided funding for research studies that involved significant data collection. Studies that produced publicly available datasets can now be accessed through RSF’s website and are searchable by keyword. The archive currently contains 76 datasets, covering topics such as child development and well-being, economic inequality, educational access, employment discrimination, immigrant integration, and political participation.

Examples of datasets in the archive include:

Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA). PIs Rubén G. Rumbaut (University of California, Irvine), Frank D. Bean (University of California, Irvine), Leo R. Chavez (University of California, Irvine), Susan K. Brown (University of California, Irvine), Louis DeSipio (University of California, Irvine), Min Zhou (University of California, Los Angeles), and Jennifer Lee (Columbia University) explored the incorporation of children of immigrants to the United States in the greater Los Angeles area. 

Economic Inequality and Political Representation. PI Martin Giles (Princeton University) used this data to inform his book Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America (2014), which provides conclusive evidence that national policymakers are much more responsive to the policy preferences of the affluent than the middle class or the poor.

The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI). PIs Lawrence D. Bobo (Harvard University), James J. Johnson, Jr. (University of North Carolina), Melvin L. Oliver (Pitzer College), Reynolds Farley (University of Michigan), Barry Bluestone (Northeastern University), Irene Browne (Emory University), Sheldon Danziger (University of Michigan), Gary Green (University of Wisconsin), Harry Holzer (Georgetown University), Maria Krysan (University of Illinois Chicago), Michael P. Massagli (Patients Like Me), Camille Charles (University of Pennsylvania), Joleen Kirschenman (University of Chicago), Philip Moss (University of Massachusetts Lowell), and Chris Tilly (University of California, Los Angeles) explored how changing labor market dynamics, racial attitudes and stereotypes, and racial residential segregation act singly and in concert to foster contemporary urban inequality in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles.

Explore the dataset archive.