This initiative seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups and generations. This initiative falls under RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program and represents a special area of interest within the core program, which continues to encourage proposals on a broader set of issues. RSF and the Carnegie Corporation of New York invite proposals for new research that will strengthen the theory, methods and empirical knowledge about the effects of race, citizenship, legal status, and the interplay of politics and policy on immigrant outcomes. Because of limitations in government statistics, researchers are curating and analyzing data from both public and private sources (e.g., specialized surveys, administrative sources from tax, social security and citizenship and immigration services, as well as social media), and collecting their own data to measure the progress of the foreign-born and their children. Many of the questions listed below are difficult to answer because of data limitations (Blau & Mackie, 2016; Duncan & Trejo, 2016; Massey, 2010; Waters & Pineau, 2015) regarding age and time of arrival, time spent in the U.S., legal status at present and upon entry, including visa type, parents’ and grandparents’ place of birth, longitudinal data, and data linked across sources.  Thus, we welcome proposals to improve the measurement of immigrant progress over time and across generations.  We are especially interested in creative uses of administrative and other data sources that enhance our ability to identify immigrants by generation and legal status. Full details are here [russellsage.org]. Deadline: 11/09/2022   Award Amount: Up to $275,000

This RSF program supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes such as educational and labor market access and opportunities, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation. We seek innovative investigator-initiated research that will expand our understanding of social, political, and economic inequalities and the mechanisms by which they influence the lives of individuals, families, and communities. We welcome projects that explore the relevance of economic, racial, ethnic, age, gender, immigration, residence, or other statuses for the distribution of social, political, and economic outcomes within and across different status groups. RSF prioritizes analyses that make use of newly available data or demonstrate novel uses of existing data. We support original data collection when a project is focused on important program priorities, projects that conduct survey or field experiments and qualitative studies. RSF encourages methodological variety and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Proposed projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks and rigorous research designs. Analytical models must be well-specified and research methods must be appropriate. RSF priorities do not include analyses of health or mental health outcomes or health behaviors as these are priorities for other funders. For the same reason, RSF seldom supports studies focused on educational processes or curricular issues but does prioritize analyses of inequalities in student achievement or educational attainment.   Full details are here [russellsage.org]. Deadline: 11/09/2022    Award Amount: Up to $275,000

Are you an affiliate who works with a community organization that directs health equity interventions?  If so, your community organization partner might be a good candidate for the following call for funding. Research organizations can be partners on the grant, but the grant needs to be led by a community organization.

The NIH Common Fund is soliciting applications from community organizations in support of the goals of the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program’s [commonfund.nih.gov] Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Intervention Initiative. The new research opportunity [commonfund.nih.gov] OTA-22-007 will support the development, implementation, assessment, and dissemination of community-led, health equity structural interventions [pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov], co-created in partnership with research organizations, that intervene upon structural factors that produce and perpetuate health disparities.Please note this is not a Transformative Health Disparities Research Initiative opportunity.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) have just released a new report on a proposal to build a national data infrastructure for the 21st century. The committee’s goal was to develop a vision for a new, national data infrastructure for the social and behavioral sciences. The report can be found here and there will be celebratory event in Washington, D.C. on October 13 from 2-5pm EST.  Register for the event here.  Notably several prominent demographers contributed to the report and serve on CNSTAT, including Matthew Snipp (Stanford), Judith Seltzer (UC Irvine), Ann Case (Princeton University), and Robert Groves (Georgetown).

This Notice applies to health, development, and well-being outcomes that are within the scientific scope of the NICHD. This Notice does not apply to research on outcomes that are the focus of other NIH Institutes and Centers. Also, because the focus of this Notice is on emerging or evolving public health crises, this Notices does not apply to research on long-term public health issues. Examples of areas not within this scope of this Notice are smoking, cardiovascular disease, substance abuse, and overweight and obesity. While this Notice is primarily focused on policy change and public health crises that are national in scope or, at a minimum, affect a large share of the U.S. population, there is no requirement that research submitted in response to this Notice be national or regional in scope. Research focused on outcomes in specific locations are also permitted if the results can be generalized to the United States overall, a large segment of the U.S. population, a major U.S. subpopulation, or a health disparities population.

The third public meeting on an integrated system of US household income, wealth, and consumption data will be held on September 20 from 11am-2pm (PST) via webinar here.  This meeting will include presentations from from six countries – Canada, Finland, Italy, U.K., Netherlands, and New Zealand – about their experiences using multiple data sources to create both a data infrastructure for income, consumption and wealth, and improved estimates.