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Reducing Inequality

Awarded Grants

Grant

Directing Change: A Novel Approach to Addressing Disparities in Suicidal Behaviors among Latinx and LGBTQ+ Youth

Does a youth filmmaking suicide prevention program have significant impacts on Latinx and LGBTQ+ youth?
Pamela Morris-Perez
New York University
2022 – 2025
$750,000
Grant

Effects of Work and Financial Assistance Policies on Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from Welfare Reform Experiments

What are the impacts of different welfare-to-work interventions on the children of former recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 20 years later, and how do impacts vary by gender and ...
Zhuan Pei
Cornell University
2021 – 2025
$544,312
Grant

Long-Term Consequences of the Voting Rights Act for Black-White Disparities in Children’s Later-Life Outcomes

What are the long-term consequences of the 1965 Voting Rights Act for Black-White educational and labor market disparities?
Ying Shi
Syracuse University
2021 – 2026
$359,556
Grant

Development of a Measure of Equity-Based Social Emotional Learning Practices

How can we measure the extent to which teachers advance racial equity through their instruction on social-emotional learning?
Deborah Rivas-Drake
University Of Michigan
2021 – 2022
$49,999

Articles & More

Blog Post

Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Is Your Study a Fit?

If you are considering applying for a major grant or Officers’ research award in our reducing inequality focus area, we encourage you to closely evaluate whether your proposed study is a fit with our funding interests.
Jenny Irons
Proposing Research on Reducing Inequality: Is Your Study a Fit?
Digest, Issue 07: Winter 2021-22

Contending with Complexity: How Two Grantees are Approaching Studies of Mechanisms

Former William T. Grant Scholar Mesmin Destin is an associate professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Psychology and the School of Education & Social Policy. Rob Smith is a research grantee and professor of sociology, immigration studies, and public ...
Contending with Complexity: How Two Grantees are Approaching Studies of Mechanisms
Digest, Issue 07: Winter 2021-22

Opening the Black Box: Overcoming Obstacles to Studying Causal Mechanisms in Research on Reducing Inequality

Although many of today’s disparities have their roots in policies or actions initiated generations ago, there is much we can do today. And new research on causal mechanisms can ...
Opening the Black Box: Overcoming Obstacles to Studying Causal Mechanisms in Research on Reducing Inequality
News
  •  Nov 30, 2021

Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence on Ways to Reduce Inequality in Youth Outcomes

We are proud to announce four new research grants for studies on reducing inequality. Approved at the Foundation’s October Board meeting, these awards will help build theory and empirical ...
Foundation Staff
Four New Research Grants to Build Theory and Evidence on Ways to Reduce Inequality in Youth Outcomes
Blog Post

“The system makes it hard for them:” Exploring the challenges and strategies for schools in supporting newcomer unaccompanied immigrant youth

Newcomer unaccompanied youth in the U.S. The United States defines an unaccompanied minor as an immigrant who is under the age of 18 and not in the care of a ...
Sophia Rodriguez
Webinars

Forum: From Understanding Inequality to Reducing Inequality

On October 28th, two panels of scholars participated in a virtual forum, From Understanding Inequality to Reducing Inequality. Exploring ways for social scientists to move beyond describing and quantifying the problem of inequality and to focus instead on ways to ...
Foundation Staff
Forum: From Understanding Inequality to Reducing Inequality

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