- 2020-21 Awardees
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P.I. Name/Dept. Project Title Travis Bristol (Graduate School of Education) An Exploration of a Professional Learning Community for Novice Male Teachers of Color Sydnee Caldwell (Haas & Economics) Examining the effects of automation on the labor market and on individuals’ political beliefs. Ellora Derenoncourt (Economics & GSPP) Regenerating Opportunity: Black Suburbanization in the South, 1970-2020 Supreet Kaur (Economics) High worker turnover and absenteeism: the role of labor supply Erin Kerrison (School of Social Welfare) Tricycles and Trapdoors: A Mixed-Method Study of Overt and Covert Exclusionary Discipline in Preschools Jonathan Kolstad (Haas and Economics) Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and the process of diagnosis and documentation in medicine. Claire Montialoux (Goldman School of Public Policy ) Racial disparities in Brazil G. Cristina Mora (Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies ) & Tianna Paschel (Sociology and African American Studies) The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on California’s ‘Barely Making It’ Ricardo Perez-Truglia (Haas School of Business) The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap Benjamin Schoefer (Economics) Short-Time Work and Unemployment Benefits During COVID-19 / Labor Demand Effects of Financing Constraints and Wage Rigidity Sameer Srivastava (Haas School of Business) What role does the mobility of organizational leaders play in shaping corporate culture? Guo Xu (Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley) The Economic Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the US Federal Government Conrad Miller (Haas School of Business (Economics)) Why Are Larger Employers More Racially Diverse? Elizabeth Linos (Goldman School of Public Policy) Reducing Case Worker Burnout to Improve Job Seeker Outcomes:
A Field ExperimentAvi Feller (GSPP) Understanding mechanisms driving long-run impacts of 1990s reforms to the safety net, Danny Yagan (Economics) The Rise of Pass-Throughs and the Decline in the Labor Share Neil Fligstein (Sociology) Tracking the Impact of Domestic Outsourcing on Employment Outcomes in the United States, 1992 to 2017 - 2019-20 Awardees
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P.I. Name/Dept. Project Title Irene Bloemraad (Sociology) Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop Avi Feller (Goldman School of Public Policy, Statistics) Practical Tools for Panel Data Models David Harding (Sociology) Underground Scholars Policy Team Erin Kerrison (School of Social Welfare) Understanding “Us vs Them” Attitudes, Police Officer Wellness, and Public Safety Elizabeth Linos (Goldman School of Public Policy) Burnout and Bias in Decision-making Christopher Muller (Sociology) Land and Racial Economic Inequality Daniel Schneider (Sociology) The Effects of New York City’s Fair Scheduling Law on Job Quality Sandra Smith (Sociology) Perceptions and Experiences of the Formerly Incarcerated with Fair Chance Employment Initiatives Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad (Sociology) Golden Futures and Hard Realities: Polarized Lives in the Bay Area Richard Walker (Geography) California Studies Seminar Danny Yagan (Economics) Pareto-Improving Growth and Place-Based Redistribution - 2018-19 Awardees
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P.I. Name/Dept. Project Title Albiston, Catherine (Sociology, Law) Inequality in Evaluation Bloemraad, Irene (Sociology) Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop Feller, Avi (Public Policy) Improving the Synthetic Control Method Fox, Cybelle (Sociology) Harding, David (Sociology) Probing the Limits of Criminal Record Stigma: Audit Studies of the Job Market for College Graduates Kaur, Supreet (Economics) Linos, Elizabeth (Public Policy) Reducing burnout in front line workers Mahajan, Aprajit (ARE) Frictions in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Household Borrowing Miller, Conrad (Haas) Local Variation in Criminal Justice Disparities by Race and Class Muller, Christopher (Sociology) The Political Economy of Imprisonment in the U.S. South, 1915-1920 Paiz, Christian (Ethnic Studies) Oral Histories of United Farm Worker Rank-and-File Schoefer, Benjamin (Economics) The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extension Margin: A Reservation Wage Approach Smith, Sandra (Sociology) Perceptions and Experiences of the Formerly Incarcerated with Fair Chance Employment Initiatives Walker, Richard (Geography) California Studies Lecture and Dinner Series Yagan, Danny (Economics) Pareto-Improving Growth and Place-Based Redistribution - 2017-18 Awardees
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P.I. Name/Dept. Project Title Bloemraad, Irene, Cybelle Fox, and Cristina Mora (Sociology) Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop Chang, Yu-Ling (Social Welfare) Multiple Income Support Program Participation and Long-Term Employment and Earnings Trajectories Among Single-Mother Families Collier, Ruth Berins (Political Science) On-Demand Work in the Platform Economy: Grassroots, Surrogates, and the Politics of Uber Regulation Fligstein, Neil (Sociology) US Labor Militancy and Firm Financialization From 1984 – 2004 Gomez, Anu (Social Welfare) Racial and Ethnic Differences in Pregnancy Acceptability: Understanding the Roles of State-Level Employment Disparities Harding, David (Sociology) Mediation of Neighborhood Effects on Educational Outcomes Holmes, Seth (Public Health) Training for Unequal Care: Medical Students, Social Inequality and the Future of Health Labor Hoynes, Hilary (Economics, GSPP) Effects of WIC on Food Consumption and Nutrients for Children: Evidence From Regression Discontinuity at Age 5 Leung, Ming (Haas) Is It the Picture or the Thousand Words? How Photos and Messaging Language of Women and Minority Job Applicants Affect Their Hiring Outcomes in a Technology-Mediated Labor Market Mahajan, Aprajit (ARE) Welfare Effects of Wage Payment Delays: Frictions in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Schneider, Daniel (Sociology) Schedule Instability and Unpredictability and Worker and Family Wellbeing Walker, Richard (Geography) California Studies Lecture and Dinner Series - 2016-17 Awardees
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P.I. Name/Dept. Project Title Aniza, Sarah (Public Policy) The Politics of Public Safety: How Unions of Police Officers and Firefighters Shape Local Public Service Provision Brown, Clair (Economics) Measuring California’s Quality of Life, and Job Quality Collier, Ruth Berins (Political Science) Regulation of On-Demand Work: The Politics of the Uber Economy De Vaan, Mathijs (Haas) Collaboration After Retractions? Dow, William H. (Public Health) Participation and Plan Choices in the 2014-2016 California Individual Health Insurance Market Fligstein, Neil (Sociology) The Role of Foreclosures in the Destruction of Wealth for Black, Hispanic, and Middle Class Families in the Great Recession Fox, Cybelle (Sociology) Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop Gelber, Alexander (GSPP) The Effect of the Social Security Earnings Test on Employment Haveman, Heather (Sociology) The New One Percent? Data Science and Changes in American Corporate Leadership Holmes, Seth (Public Health) Growing Up Transborder: Youth, Future Aspirations, and Immigrant Farm Labor in the United States Hsiang, Soloman (Public Policy) Labor Productivity in a Warmer World: The Impact of Climate Change on the Global Workforce Kline, Patrick (Economics) How Much Did the Wage Structure Change? Correlated Estimates of Worker-Firm Effects and Sorting Leung, Ming (Haas) The Dilemma of Mobility: The Differential Effects of Women and Men’s Erratic Career Paths on Performance Appraisals Levine, David (Haas) “Personalized Policy” for OSHA (& Beyond): Machine Learning of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Without Over-Fitting Magruder, Jeremy (ARE) Search Frictions and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment with a Large Indian Web Portal Perloff, Jeff (ARE) Labor Supply and the Incidence of Taxes Fall on New York Taxi Drivers Schneider, Daniel (Sociology) Economic Uncertainty, Precarity, and Family Formation Schoefer, Benjamin (Economics) (1) Prices and Labor Costs: New Evidence from a Location and Industry Specific Producer Price Index; (2) The Role of Quits and Replacement Hiring in the Cyclicality of Job Openings Srivastava, Sameer B. (Haas) (1) Comparing and Contrasting Survey- and Language-Based Measures of Cultural Fit; (2) The Effect of Social Belonging on Social Network Positions and Attainment in the Workplace Voss, Kim (Sociology) Labor’s Changing Strategies and Democratic Dilemmas Walker, Reed (Haas) The Big Pull: Company Towns and Manufacturing Deagglomeration Walker, Richard (Geography) California Studies Lecture & Dinner Series Yagan, Danny (Economics) The 2007-2009 Recession and the Rise of Trump
