Current Funded Projects

"Dignifying Discontent: Informal Women Workers and the State of India" (Fulbright-Hays - R. Agarwala 2009-2011) to support fieldwork in three cities in India.

"Finding their Way: The Developmental Work Trajectories of Non-College Youth" (NSF - K. L. Alexander 2009-2011) to understand how youth, especially those at-risk and not bound for college, build human capital by means other than schooling - specifically, through work experience and vocational training.

"Moving Matters: Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Family in the Lives of Poor Adolescents,” (WT Grant Foundation; S. DeLuca 2008-2013) to explore what drives mobilty among poor familes, how (or whether) they select new neighborhoods and how moving affects important developmental  outcomes like high school dropout and delinquency. In particular, how family dynamics before and after moves interact with residential change to influence these outcomes as well as the characteristics of neighborhoods and schools the youth move among.

"Low Incomes Youth, Neighborhoods and Housing Mobilty in Baltimore," (WT Grant Foundation/University of Pennsylvania - S. Deluca 2010-2011) to understand the social processes and contextual factors that underlie trajectories into late adolscence and young adulthood, focusing on a sample of young men and women whose families, in the late 1990's, resided in highly distressed public housing projects in Baltimore.

"Do Place-Based Policy Interventions Increase Neighborhood Opportunity? The Case of Sandtown-Winchester in Baltimore" (Abell Foundation, S. Deluca 2011-2012) to explore how neighborhood opportunity has changed in Sandtown-Winchester as a result of the high-profile community development project, the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, which has taken place over the past two decades.

"Immigration, Specialized Human Capital, and Wage Inequality in the U.S." (NSF, L. Hao 2010-2011)to focus on the whole college-educated population, in an effort to assess simultaneously the impact of technology and immigration in the top tail of as well as the whole wage distribution, drawing from data from the 1993 and 2003 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) and the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-USA 1990 and 2000).