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IPR Marks 40 Years | Promising Careers 1 Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University Fall 2009 Vol. 31, No. 1 news IPR Marks 40 Years Promising CAREERs Conference takes stock of Two IPR sociologists receive young faculty awards inequality, sets course for IPR sociologists Monica Prasad American studies at Northwestern, will new research directions and Celeste Watkins-Hayes study the economic and social experi- were recently named as recipients of ences and processes of people living On April 16–17, some of the nation’s the National Science with HIV/AIDS. leading researchers analyzed and Foundation’s Faculty The NSF’s highly debated the character of inequality in Early Career Devel- Reese P. competitive CAREER the United States over the last four opment (CAREER) awards program decades at a conference, “Dynamics Awards for 2009. recognizes promising of Inequality in America from 1968 Each of these young tenure-track to Today.” It was organized by faculty members will “teacher-scholars” Northwestern’s Institute for Policy receive more than with a demonstrated Research to mark its 40th anniversary. $400,000 for their talent for integrating distinctive research their research with J. Ziv J. projects. Prasad will Monica Prasad (l.) and Celeste educational activities. explore the paradox Watkins-Hayes share ideas on Prasad and Watkins- of how the United launching their NSF CAREER projects. Hayes join six other States developed the Northwestern faculty world’s most progressive tax code, as recipients of the award this year— while restricting the development of an in addition to their colleague IPR extensive welfare state. Watkins-Hayes, anthropologist Thomas McDade, who who holds a joint appointment in the received one in 2002. Former IPR directors (from l.): Louis departments of sociology and African (Continued on page 18) Masotti, Burton Weisbrod, Margaret Gordon, and Raymond Mack. “The urban and racial inequities of Experimentation in Political Science the 1960s drove the decision to launch IPR fellow leads conference for topic’s first handbook a center to conduct policy-relevant research in the 1968–69 academic year On May 28–29, more co-editors and the first at Northwestern,” said Fay Lomax than 100 political sci- Reese P. political scientist named Cook, IPR’s director. “Inequality entists and graduate as a lead editor of Public has remained a major theme woven students from across Opinion Quarterly, he is through much of our faculty research the country gathered leading the charge to (Continued on page 15) at Northwestern Uni- improve methodology in versity to discuss and the field. critique papers that will The participant list Inside this Issue be included as chapters read like a who’s who Skip Lupia of Michigan (l.) talks in the first “Handbook of pioneers of experi- New IPR Faculty Fellows ... 3 to James Druckman about the of Experimental Politi- mental methods in the Faculty Research in Brief ... 4–5 forthcoming book. Treating Ambiguity ... 6 cal Science.” field—Shanto Iyengar Perspective: “Talking Together” ... 7 IPR’s James Druckman was the and Paul Sniderman of Stanford, Alan conference organizer, and IPR was a Gerber and Donald Green of Yale, New Books/Working Papers ... 10–13 co-sponsor. As one of the handbook’s (Continued on page 8) 2 Faculty Awards and Honors Recent Faculty Fellow Grants Honors and Presentations of Note Developmental psychologist P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale IPR Faculty Fellows is collaborating with the Ounce of Prevention Fund to study The Midwest Political Science Association awarded political Educare Centers as part of a national college completion scientist James Druckman and his co-authors the 2009 initiative led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Pi Sigma Alpha Award for “The Content of U.S. Congressional The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided funding Campaigns.” In September, Science Watch noted Druckman’s for the Experimental Political Science conference, organized 2004 article “Political Preference Formation” was the most by political scientist James Druckman (see cover story). cited paper in economics and business. He was also appointed Sociologist Jeremy Freese also received NSF support Payson S. Wild Professor in Political Science. to continue developing the online platform Time-sharing Psychologist Alice Eagly became one of three recipients Experiments for the Social Sciences (see p. 9). of the 2009 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award Education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges from the American Psychological Association (APA). (See is studying environmental and biological variation and lan- back cover.) She also received the Gold Medal for Life guage growth with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Achievement in the Science of Psychology from the APA’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Develop- American Psychological Foundation. ment (NICHD). With an NSF grant, Sociologist Jeremy Freese was elected president of he is establishing the Center for P. Reese P. the Evolution, Biology, and Society Section of the American Advancing Research and Communi- Sociological Association (ASA). cation in Science, Technology, Engi- Education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges neering, and Mathematics with Uni- was installed as president of the Society for Research on versity of Chicago colleagues at the Educational Effectiveness (SREE) for 2009–10. National Opinion Research Center. Economist Charles F. Manski was elected to Anthropologist Christopher the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his Kuzawa is working on a model of distinguished and continuing research achievements (see back developmental origins of adult risk cover). He gave a plenary address on “Policy Choice with factors with an NICHD grant. Larry Hedges Partial Knowledge of Policy Effectiveness” at SREE’s annual Social policy professor Dan A. conference in Arlington, Va., on March 2 and delivered the Lewis is starting a study of welfare reform’s impact on International Economic Review’s Lawrence R. Klein Lecture on crime with support from the Joyce Foundation. “Diversified Treatment Under Ambiguity” at the University of Economist Charles F. Manski received an NSF grant Pennsylvania on April 16. for identification and decision problems in the social sciences. Sociologist Leslie McCall’s article “Inequality, Public The NSF selected sociologist Monica Prasad for a Opinion, and Redistribution” with Lane Kenworthy of the CAREER award to study taxation and welfare (see cover story). University of Arizona was se- With Spencer Foundation support, sociologist Lincoln lected by the Socio-Economic Quillian is analyzing “promise scholarships,” in which states Review’s editors as the best Reese P. make college tuition awards to academically qualified students. paper submission of 2008. Under two new NSF grants, social psychologist Jennifer Michelle Reininger, Richeson is expanding her project on the psychological and an assistant professor of physiological implications of managing a stigmatized identity and education, social policy, and beginning another on fostering positive interracial interactions. learning sciences, was voted James Rosenbaum’s grant from the Spencer Outstanding Professor of Foundation will allow him to further study the high school the Year by students in the procedures that best promote “college for all.” School of Education and The National Institute of Justice selected political scientist Social Policy. Leslie McCall Wesley G. Skogan to help develop a new national plat- Jennifer Richeson, a form for research on policing. social psychologist, received a 2009 APA Distinguished Sociologist and African American studies professor Celeste Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions in social Watkins-Hayes will use her NSF CAREER award and psychology (see back cover). Robert Wood Johnson grant for research on the economic Based on his book Mission and Money: Understanding the survival strategies of women with HIV/AIDS (see cover story). University, economist Burton Weisbrod delivered a talk Senior research associate Peter Steiner received a W. T. to the Spencer Foundation’s Board of Trustees on June 9. Grant Foundation award to study propensity score analyses. (Continued on page 19) 3 New Faculty Fellows Micaela di Leonardo Morton Schapiro Professor of Anthropology Professor of Economics and Northwestern University President PhD, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1981 PhD, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979 Cultural anthropologist Micaela di Alongside his role as Northwestern Leonardo studies race- and gender- University’s 16th president, Morton P. Barreras P. I. K. MacRae K. I. inflected social and economic inequality, Schapiro joined IPR as a faculty fellow with a focus on street-level American this fall. He is one of the nation’s urban life. Much of di Leonardo’s foremost experts on the economics of work aims to connect “the global and higher education, with a particular focus the local” in innovative ways. New on college financing and affordability. Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism He also holds appointments in the and the Erosion of Democracy in America Kellogg School of Management and the (SAR Press, 2008), co-edited with Jane Collins and Brett School of Education and Social Policy. Williams, adds to the now-standard critique of neoliberal An economist, Schapiro has published more than 100 functioning at home and abroad and the contention that articles in academic journals such as the American Economic American neoliberal practices are fundamentally raced and
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