Past Grantees and Fellows

To combat teacher shortages, a growing number of states are allowing teachers to complete training programs at for-profit companies. This project explores the efficacy of for-profit training programs by examining their impacts on the quantity and quality of teachers in Texas.

Riehl and his coauthors wrote a working paper based on his CCSS fellowship project, which is titled "Community Impacts of Mass Incarceration." The paper is now in the submission process.

Being accused of copying others’ ideas can have significant financial and reputational costs. Using music copyright infringement case data and controlled experiments, we investigate whether the originality of women’s work is more likely to be questioned, with implications for understanding gender inequities in creative industries.

This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research.

The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date.

Remember Girl Zero is a book project in feminist global and Asian history, designed to show how patrilineal norms generate a uniquely feminine form of enslavement, largely invisible both to nineteenth-century abolitionists and to current scholars of slavery.

This project examines integrated agrobiodiversity conservation efforts in the Peruvian Andes, focusing on how they address historical inequalities while promoting modern agriculture. Through ethnographic and participatory research, it explores farmers' access, control, and gendered dynamics within conservation initiatives led by CIP and the Peruvian state.

This study investigates the dynamics of rally-around-the-flag in a nondemocracy, drawing on evidence from Russia's war against Ukraine.

In nondemocracies, protest participation, voting for the opposition, and even abstaining from supporting regime candidates entail risks. This project investigates how risk attitudes shape political participation under authoritarian rule and how ordinary citizens overcome their baseline aversion to taking political risks.

Efficient real world climate policy must be heterogeneous across countries and industries. I will quantify the efficient distribution of carbon taxes and adaptation finance subsidies across the world. These estimates will inform policymakers where financing and capital should be directed to combat climate change.

Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States.

This project investigates how the crisis of representation in Chile and Spain drives citizens to protest, abstain, or support populist parties, arguing that new anti-establishment and inclusionary cleavages explain divergent political responses to institutional disaffection.

Nicholas Sanders produced research on influenza, pollution, and related health effects by socioeconomic status, to be published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He prepared research on lead exposure and educational outcomes by race, which he is in process of revising for publication.

Sari conducted 10 follow-up interviews with Iranian LGBTQ refugees in Turkey to complete her dissertation on refugees’ lives and experiences. The funding also allowed her to organize two small group meetings, where Iranian refugees discussed how to establish collaboration and solidarity with Syrian LGBTQ refugees in the country and prepared a community-engaged project plan and a tentative division of labor. Accordingly, the group will organize 3 virtual meetings in Fall 2021 to bring Iranian and Syrian refugees together and develop strategies for transforming prejudices and preconceptions about each other.