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Russell Sage Foundation – Social, Political and Economic Inequality Research Grants (03/11/26)

Award amount: $200,000
Sponsor deadline: 03/11/2026
Program description:
The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality 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.
A brief letter of inquiry (4 pages max. excluding references) must precede a full proposal to determine whether the proposed project is in line with the Foundation’s program priorities and available funds.
Eligibility:
Faculty & PIs

Russell Sage Foundation – Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System for Early-Career Scholars (04/01/26)

Award amount: $100,000
Sponsor deadline: 04/01/2026
Program description:
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in collaboration with the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures (AV) is pleased to announce its first annual grants competition for early-career scholars. Our goal is to cultivate a pipeline of researchers conducting causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention.
Proposals must include causal research designs that can reliably isolate the treatment effects of a policy, practice, or intervention. Examples include difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and randomized controlled trials. Mixed methods projects will be considered if a causal research design is central to the proposal.
Eligibility:
Faculty & PIs, Early-career

*New* Workshop Resources: Creating an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan with ICPSR

Are you preparing a renewal, resubmission, or upcoming NIH grant application? Resources are now available from an October 2025 virtual workshop by ICPSR designed to help you navigate the requirements of the NIH’s Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy.

The workshop slides cover the essential components of creating an effective DMS Plan and highlight the value of transparent data sharing. You’ll gain insights into the NIH’s data sharing policies, learn how to de-identify and prepare both restricted- and public-use datafiles, and discover ICPSR’s many resources to support your research, whether you work with qualitative or quantitative data.

IPUMS Data Update: MET2023 and MEPS

IPUMS USA

IPUMS USA has extended MET2023, which identifies 2023 metropolitan areas, to the 2012-2021 ACS/PRCS samples. A new variable, METPOP20, reports the 2020 population of 2023 metropolitan and micropolitan areas. We have also made several revisions, including capturing additional multigenerational households in MULTGEN and expanding the property tax and utility cost variables (PROPTX99, PROPINSR, COSTGAS, COSTFUEL,  COSTWATR) to ensure that IPUMS top codes match Census Bureau top codes.

IPUMS HEALTH SURVEYS

IPUMS MEPS now offers data from the 2023 MEPS sample. This release includes 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files. New variables added with this release include information about COVID and Long COVID at the round level.

 

Join the Mobility and Migration Modeling Intercomparison Project (3MIP)

The Mobility and Migration Modeling Intercomparison Project (3MIP) invites you to join a new initiative to advance the modeling of migration and mobility in the context of climate change.

Over the past decades, migration modeling capacity has expanded considerably, with diverse approaches including ABM, IAM, Gravity, Radiation, and others. Similar to how model intercomparison projects (MIPs) such as AgMIP and ISIMIP have strengthened agricultural and climate modeling, 3MIP aims to improve the robustness, comparability, and usability of migration models. By standardizing methods, characterizing uncertainties, and setting shared benchmarks, we hope to build a foundation for stronger science and policy applications.

This initiative is jointly supported by Princeton’s CPREE, Cornell University’s Department of Global Development, and the Columbia Climate School. Our long-term goal is to develop a suite of cases and benchmarks for comparison. We begin with a first case study on coastal flooding and mobility in Bangladesh.

3MIP warmly invites:

  • Modelers, model users, and users of model outputs
  • Experts in migration, mobility, and coastal flooding
  • Especially, scholars and practitioners from Bangladesh

Opportunities for participation include:

  • Regular online engagements with the 3MIP community
  • Contributions to comparative case studies
  • Participation in a planned conference session at the 2026 iEMS meeting (Dublin)
  • Contributions to a forthcoming Topical Collection in Climatic Chang

Please visit 3mip.weebly.com to learn more and register your interest, or contact ik356@cornell.edu with any questions.