Past Grantees and Fellows

Through in-depth interviews and participatory mapping, this study investigates the process of prosecutorial discretion, focusing on the influence of spatial stigma on charging offers for juvenile offenders and answering the question: how do attorneys perceive the role of neighborhoods in their approach to prosecuting juvenile cases?

This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory.

Zoning functions mostly the same in jurisdictions across the country, but zoning data have heretofore been scattered and highly heterogeneous. This conference convenes experts engaged in the standardization and publication of cross-jurisdictional zoning data to explore the methodology underlying the production of the National Zoning Atlas.

People interact with preservation law predominantly at the local level, through historic commissions that opine on proposed rehab projects. Yet there is neither a census of local governments that regulate historic places, nor any scholarship that ties adoption to demographic characteristics, political inclinations, and state enabling authority features. My research will identify where historic districts have been adopted and explore how rates of adoption change from state to state depending on various independent variables.

Data collection completed by 2009.

Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded.

Campello and Baron digitized and translated financial statements for 950 German firms and 300 Swedish firms over the period 1948-1965, building a database similar to Compustat. They also assembled a database on wages, productivity, and patents for German firms by industries and counties. 

This project seeks to elevate the stories of workers with TPS (Temporary Protective Status) who despite living in temporality, have engaged in social movement organizing, have participated in non-traditional political mobilization and have become agents for their own struggle for permanency and citizenship rights. It will also explore the engagement of TPS workers in the struggle for immigrant worker justice and union organizing. The survey interview questionnaire covers three dimensions of belonging, or what Campos-Medina 2019 describes as Bounded Integration:  (1) Social Economic Status, (2) Civic and Social Movement Engagement, and (3) Collective Group Identity.
This field research will focus on TPS workers in New York State, and will complement data already gathered by Campos-Medina (2019) from TPS workers in New Jersey and Washington DC.  It will also interview leaders of the National TPS Alliance who are at the forefront of leading their own movement for permanency. This is a qualitative research project with subjects with limited English proficiency.

Led to publications in Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Psychology: General plus funding of an NSF grant.

We build the first direct measures of capital-embodied technical change (CETC) as well as of the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital at the occupational level, www.capitalbyoccupation.weebly.com. One paper has been submitted for publication and another is forthcoming at the JME.