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    New RSF grant: Inequality, Institutions, and the Making of Financial Policy

    New RSF grant: Inequality, Institutions, and the Making of Financial Policy

    December 1, 2017
    Russell Sage Foundation | Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in collaboration with Susan Yackee of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been awarded a Russell Sage Foundation grant to examine the ways that special interests use their considerable resources to influence administrative and executive decisionmaking, focusing on financial industry influence on rulemaking in the aftermath of Dodd-Frank.
    New RSF grant: How Rigid is the Wealth Structure and Why?

    New RSF grant: How Rigid is the Wealth Structure and Why?

    March 12, 2015

    Awardees | Alexandra Killewald and Fabian Pfeffer (University of Michigan) are the recipients of a Russell Sage Foundation grant, jointly funded with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to assess the strength and pattern of multigenerational wealth associations, and explore the role of intergenerational transfers, home ownership and marriage in wealth mobility across generations.

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    New Awards in Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

    May 18, 2017

    Russell Sage Foundation | The Russell Sage Foundation announced four new awards from its small grant competition in intergenerational mobility, three of which will support research by Harvard Inequality & Social Policy affiliates:

    • Ellora Derenoncourt (Harvard University)
      Did Great Migration Destinations become Mobility Traps?
      Ellora Derenoncourt is a PhD candidate in Economics.
       
    • Ryan D. Enos (Harvard University)
      Do Public Works Programs Increase Intergenerational Mobility? Evidence from the Works Progress Administration
      Ryan Enos is Associate Professor of Government.
       
    • James J. Feigenbaum (Princeton University), Maximillian Hell (Stanford University), and Robert Manduca (Harvard University)
      The American Dream in the Great Depression: Absolute Income Mobility in the United States, 1915-1940
      James Feigenbaum (Harvard PhD '16) is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In fall 2017 he will join the Boston University faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics. Maximillian Hell is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University.  Robert Manduca is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard University.

    Read the project abstracts

    Nathaniel Hendren awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

    Nathaniel Hendren awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

    July 2, 2019
    Awardee | Nathaniel Hendren, Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights, has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding early-career scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Hendren was nominated for the award by the National Science Foundation. 
    Nathan Hendren named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow

    Nathan Hendren named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow

    February 23, 2016

    Awardee | Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics, is one of 126 early-career scientists and scholars selected for the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes the next generation of leaders in eight scientific fields. Harvard colleague Melissa Dell, also an Assistant Professor of Economics, was likewise named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow. Read the press release.

    Michele Lamont

    Michèle Lamont wins Erasmus Prize

    February 20, 2017

    Harvard Gazette | Harvard Professor Michèle Lamont has been named winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize, which recognizes individual or group contributions to European culture, society, or social science.

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    Michèle Lamont named a 2019 Carnegie Fellow

    April 23, 2019

    Harvard Gazette | Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, is among the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellows announced today by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Her project: "New Narratives of Hope: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis of American Society." 

    Lamont will spend the year at the Russell Sage Foundation writing a book “trying to make sense of the current moment through the framework through which people understand their value and that of others.” The American dream is no longer working for any group, she said, from the working poor to the upper-middle class, and “we’re now facing a crisis in the way people imagine hope.”

    View the 2019 Carnegie Fellows  ▶

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