There are many social scientific questions that only the census can answer, and many more that it answers with more authority than any other source of data. As the largest social survey of the United States, the census is capable of tracking small groups and finely distinguished slices of the population. It is, for example, our only source of information about smaller racial and ethnic minorities, specific occupations, and particular income categories.
Submission Deadlines: See upcoming deadlines
Co-Chairs
- Frances Champagne, Columbia University
- Greg Miller, Northwestern University
Members
- Daniel Benjamin, University of Southern California
- Edith Chen, Northwestern University
- Dalton Conley, Princeton University
- Nathan Fox, University of Maryland
- Adriana Galván, University of California, Los Angeles
- Kathleen Mullen Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- David Laibson, Harvard University / RSF Trustee
- Sara McLanahan, Princeton University / RSF Trustee
This initiative is carried out in collaboration with and support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context supports innovative research on decision making across the social sciences that examines causes, consequences, processes, or context from a behavioral or alternative perspective. We support a wide range of research on decision-making in context by scholars in psychology, political science, sociology, and other social science fields who are pursuing questions consistent with the aims of the Foundation.
The Russell Sage Foundation/Kellogg Foundation’s Initiative on Non-Standard Work seeks to support innovative social science research on the causes and consequences of the increased incidence of alternative work arrangements in the United States. We define alternative work arrangements as temporary help agency workers, on-call workers, contract workers, and independent contractors or freelancers. We use the terms non-standard work and alternative work arrangements interchangeably.
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of original empirical research articles by both established and emerging scholars. It is designed to promote cross-disciplinary collaborations on timely issues of interest to academics, policymakers, and the public at large. Each issue is thematic in nature and focuses on a specific research question or area of interest.
Visiting Researcher positions are available for visits of five months as space permits and do not come with any Foundation financial support.