The Russell Sage Foundation in New York City recently approved 29 research grants in its programs on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality and in its special initiatives Immigration and Immigrant Integration and Implications of the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities for Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility. Some of these grants directly relate to issues important to African Americans.
Tanner Eastmond and Richard Patterson of Brigham Young University in Utah and Amanda Bonheur of the RAND Corporation will examine the extent to which the share of job applications from women and underrepresented racial groups can be increased by including encouraging and informative language around qualification requirements in job ads.
Terrill Taylor of the University of Maryland, College Park and Royel Johnson of the University of Southern California will conduct a pilot study to develop and test a digital storytelling intervention aimed at counteracting the effects of racial oppression and criminal stigma among justice-involved people of color.
Stav Atir of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hannah Birnbaum of Washington University in St. Louis will examine the extent to which women and racial minorities use formal cues as a sign of professional legitimacy and whether those who enact formality are penalized, especially under informal workplace norms.
Michelle Jiang of the University of Massachusetts Boston and Alexandra Opanasets of the U.S. Census Bureau will test the extent to which underrepresented minority groups are less likely to apply to high reward/demanding jobs due to failure sensitivity and/or anticipated discrimination.
Jeremy Reynolds of Purdue University in Indiana will examine racial and gender differences in stress, the ability to meet earnings targets, and control over work hours among microtask workers on MTurk and Prolific.
Payton Small of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, will examine how students, guidance counselors, and admissions officers are responding to the evolving landscape of racially colorblind admissions following the 2023 Supreme Court decision banning race-conscious college admissions. This grant is co-funded by the Hewlett and the William T. Grant Foundations.
Kristen Brock-Petroshius of Stony Brook University in New York and Neil Lewis and Jeff Niederdeppe of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, will evaluate the effectiveness of race- and class-based messaging strategies across racialized policy domains to better understand how communication about racialized policy issues operates.
Joe LaBriola, Robert Manduca and Pablo Mitnik of the University of Michigan will use a nationwide dataset of residential market values to measure age- and race-based inequalities in property tax burdens and the effects of assessment caps on these inequalities.
Crystal Shackleford of Yale University will examine how experiences with discrimination and inequality influence how people from minoritized groups relate to one another and the conditions under which they view each other as allies versus competitors.
