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In November 2019, the Foundation’s trustees decided that RSF would no longer accept unsolicited research proposals under the Computational Social Science special initiative. However, RSF remains interested in supporting research that brings these new data and methods to bear on questions of interest in its core programs.

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.

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

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.