CSI has provided seed grants to Cornell University graduate students interested in carrying out research on inequality-relevant topics. Recent recipients include:
2008-2009
Emily Hoagland - Supporting Women Candidates: The Effects of Fundraising Organizations on the Political Success of Women
In Paik - Developing a Diverse Academy: Examining Women and People of Color in the Ph.D Pipeline
Jared Peifer - Religion in the Financial Market: The Case of Religious Mutual Funds
Chris Yenkey - Financial Illiteracy as a Contributor to Wealth Inequality in Developing Countries: A micro-level analysis of shareholding on the Nairobi Stock Exchange
2007-2008
(In partnership with the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center)
Nicolas Eilbaum - Undocumented Immigrants in New York City: Hope and Fear
Jennifer Lauture - Never-Married Black Women: The Roles of Social Distance and Racial Exclusion
Bartolo Ligouri - High Stakes Tests and Teacher Resistance: New York City Schools in an Era of Increased Accountability
Catherine Taylor - Stress, Status, and Gender in Decision-Making Groups
Jennifer Todd - Under Pressure: Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement in the Era of School Accountability
Yujun Wang and Michael Genkin - Understanding Onomastic Mechanisms in Immigrant Assimilation
2006-2007
(In partnership with the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center)
Youngjoo Cha - The Increase in Gender Earnings Inequality among Professional and Managerial Workers and the Gendered Norm of Overworking
Diana Hernandez - Living in Paradox: Low Income Families, Home and Neighborhood Challenges and (Non)Participation in the Legal System
Li Ma - Social Inequality during the Deinstitutionalization of Hukou in China
Christin Munsch - Campus Climate Survey
Catherine Taylor - Stress, Gender, and Numerical Minority in Goal Oriented Groups
Sarah Thebaud - Institutions, interactions and entrepreneurship: A cross-national study of gender inequality in venture creation
Chris Yenkey - Jeri Grows up Fast: An Ethnographic Account of Emerging Stratification in Rural Brazil