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The Horowitz Foundation supports policy research by emerging scholars whose work addresses contemporary issues in the social sciences. The Horowitz Foundation was established in 1997 and its first grants were issued in 1999. Since then it has made 382 awards to students at institutions around the world. About us 1/1 Subscribe! Join for updates 2023 Awards Announced For applications submitted in December 2022 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy See us at APPAM this Fall

Meet the Foundation Mary Curtis Horowitz & Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, Founders The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 by Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary Curtis Horowitz and has been funded by contributions from them since its inception. The Foundation received approval as a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization in 1998. The Foundation's general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. ​ The idea for the Foundation emerged from Irving Louis Horowitz’s experience working with doctoral students. He found that many faced financial barriers to completing their research. Dr. Horowitz initially provided assistance to these scholars personally, and later through Transaction Publishers’ Grants-in-Publication Program. After the termination of that program, the foundation was established in 1997. The first grants were issued in 1999. Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, 1968 Board of Trustees Dedication. Expertise. Passion. Irving Louis Horowitz (1929–2012) Founding Chairman Rutgers University Mary Curtis Horowitz Trustee Transaction Publishers (President, 1997-2017) Ayse Akincigil Chairman Rutgers University Ray C. Rist, Vice Chairman The World Bank Richard L. Edwards Trustee Emeritus Rutgers University Hans-Martin Boehmer - Duke University Jonathan D. Breul - Georgetown University Pearl Eliadis - McGill University Michal Grinstein-Weiss - Washington University in St. Louis Mary M. McKay - Washington University in St. Louis Nandini Ramanujam - McGill University William M. Rodgers III - Rutgers University Maggie Schneiderman - National Geographic Society William Strong - Kotin Crabtree & Strong Jos Vaessen - The World Bank Allison Zippay - Rutgers University Aim and Mission To support emerging scholars through small grants; To promote scholarship with a social policy application; and ​ To encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences. Grants Grants are based solely on merit. Each is worth a total of $10,000; $7,500 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project. ​ For grant recipients to be entitled to their second installment, they must show evidence of one of the following: Acceptance and approval of their dissertation; Acceptance of an article based on the research by a peer-reviewed journal; or Invitation to write and publish a book chapter based on the research. Grants are non-renewable and recipients have five years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment. Eligibility Eligibility Beginning in 2023 you CANNOT apply more than once. If you have applied before 2023 and want to apply again, you are still eligible. ​ Applicants must be current PhD (or DrPH) candidates who are working on their dissertation; ​​ Applicants must not have a PhD; those who do, are ineligible; ​Applicants must have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department; ​Applicants can be from any country and any university in the world. US citizenship or residency is not required. Criteria Criteria The foundation supports projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level. Applications are evaluated based on the Trustees’ assessment of criteria such as: feasibility, applicability, originality, methodology, theoretically informed or empirically rich research, and letters of recommendation. No specific weight is given to any one area. Proposals are evaluated based on overall merit of all aspects of the application. ​ We encourage applicants to look at the kind of projects we have supported in previous years. See Previous Recipients. Conditions Conditions Awards are made to individuals, not institutions. If processed through an institution, a waiver for overhead is required. ​Recipients are expected to acknowledge assistance provided by the foundation in any publication resulting from their research and should notify the foundation with publication details. Grants are issued immediately on receipt of an acceptance letter from the recipient. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure the grant does not conflict with other funding they have secured. Grants are usually administered in June of the year they are decided. Grant recipients will be publicized on the foundation's website, in appropriate professional media, and a press release to university media offices. Special Awards Special Awards Each year, the Trustees issue special monetary awards for the two most outstanding project. These awards cannot be applied for directly, and are only granted at the discretion of the Trustees. Irving Louis Horowitz Award Overall most outstanding project This award carries with it an additional $5,000. Trustees' Award ​For the most innovative approach in theory and/or methodology ​This award carries with it an additional $3,000.

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All Previous Recipients 2000 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 1999 Israeli Policy Toward Ethiopian Jews Mitchell G. Bard American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Merit or Equity: Academic Criteria in Canadian Tenure Stream Advertisements John J. Furedy University of Toronto The Political Party System in Post-Apartheid South Africa Jessica Piombo Massachusetts Institute of Technology One America?: Presidential Leadership and the Dilemma of Diversity Stanley Renshon The City University of New York Closer to a Pluralist Heaven: Advocacy Groups and the Politics of Representation Dara Z. Strolovitch Yale University Reconsidering the Cost of Business Cycles with Uncertainty and Habit Formation Huiyan Zhang The Johns Hopkins University

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All Previous Recipients 2017 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2016 Burcu Baykurt, Columbia University The City as Data Machine: Local Governance in the Age of Big Data Burcu Baykurt, a PhD candidate in communications at Columbia University, studies the social and cultural implications of digital technology, particularly the use of big data in urban development and local governance. Her work draws on and contributes to cultural sociology, public policy, and social studies of science. Andrew Breck, New York University The Effect of Participation in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Health and Healthcare Expenditure Andrew Breck is a PhD candidate at New York University’s Graduate School of Public Service and a pre-doctoral fellow at the School of Medicine. His research interests are at the intersection of social policy and health behavior, with the goal of understanding how policies can influence nutrition and nutrition related diseases. Vicki Chen, University of Pennsylvania Paying to Stay: Why Medicare's Payment System for Home Health Care leads to Inefficiency and Waste Special Award: Eli Ginzberg Award Vicki Chen is a PhD candidate in University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Health Care Management and Economics. Her research concentrates on health care provider competition and organization and its influence on social welfare. Formerly, she worked at the Urban Institute and holds a BA from Princeton University. Elizabeth Clark, Duke University Policy Demand and the Rights to Organize: Emergence of Cooperative Fishery Governance As an interdisciplinary social scientist at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, Elizabeth Clark studies cooperation to confront challenges in natural resource use and conservation. She integrates approaches from economics, political ecology, and institutional scholarship. Ellen Dinsmore, University of Wisconsin Blurring the Thin Blue Line: The Rise of the "Military Model" in American Policing Special Award: Donald R. Cressey Award Ellen Dinsmore is a PhD candidate in sociology at the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research explores how criminal justice systems both reflect and exacerbate inequalities within populations. She has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice and collaborated with the Madison Police Department. Philip Garboden, Johns Hopkins University The Geography of Profit: How Landlord Decisions Impact the Supply and Location of Subsidized Housing Philip Garboden is a doctoral student in sociology and applied math at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the same institution. His work focuses on the ways housing policies intersect with the decisions of private landlords, developers, and tenants to impact low-income communities. Ausmita Ghosh, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Maternal and Infant Health Impacts of Public Health Insurance Expansions Special Award: Martinus Nijhoff Award ​Ausmita Ghosh is a PhD candidate in economics with a concentration in health economics and public economics. Her research focuses on the role of government programs and economic conditions on health, healthcare use, and the economic well-being of vulnerable populations. Sebastian Lemire, University of California, Los Angeles Meta-Modeling Assertive Community Treatment Sebastian Lemire has over ten years of experience managing research and evaluation in the fields of education, market development, and social welfare. His professional areas of interest revolve around alternative approaches to impact evaluation and research syntheses. Erik Lin-Greenberg, Columbia University Game of Drones: The Effect of Technology on Conflict Onset and Initiation Special Award: Irving Louis Horowitz Award Erik Lin-Greenberg is a PhD candidate in political science at Columbia University where he studies international relations. His current research examines the effect of technology on armed conflict. Prior to attending Columbia, he served as an officer in the United States Air Force. Timothy Passmore, University of Colorado Pacifying the Peacekeepers: How Involvement in UN Peacekeeping Reduces the Domestic Threat of the Military Special Award: Harold D. Lasswell Award Timothy Passmore is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Colorado - Boulder. His research focuses on conflict and peace studies. His research interests include peacekeeping, terrorism and political violence, religion and conflict, and the politics of Africa and the Middle East. Rebecca Perlman, Stanford University When Regulations Fail: Setting Standards Under Asymmetric Information Rebecca Perlman is a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford University. Her research focuses on how governments regulate risk in a globalized economy. She received her BA from Princeton University and also holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Davin Reed, New York University Distributional and Welfare Effects of Gentrification Davin Reed is a PhD candidate in public policy at New York University. His research addresses questions in urban and labor economics. He is currently studying the effects of eviction and the causes and consequences of gentrification. Manuel Rosaldo, University of California - Berkeley From Informal Work to Decent Work? Integrating Waste Pickers into Formal Waste Management in Brazil and Colombia Manuel Rosaldo is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California - Berkeley. His work analyzes efforts to improve the incomes, conditions, and political voice of informal recyclers in Brazil and Colombia. Shiran Shen, Stanford University The Inconvenient Truth of the Political Pollution Cycle: Theory and Evidence from China Shiran is a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford University. Her research explores the influence of local political tenure cycles on air pollution control in China, the US, and Mexico. She holds an MS in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College. Benjamin Shestakofsky, University of California - Berkeley Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work Benjamin Shestakofsky is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley. His research examines how innovations in computing are changing work and employment, organizations, and economic exchange. He is also a 2016-2017 Scholars Strategy Network Graduate Fellow. Talia Shiff, Northwestern University "Framing the Case": Bureaucratic Efficiency Pressures in the Humanitarian Politicization, Legitimation, and Adjudication of Refugee Claims Talia Shiff is a JD-PhD candidate in law and sociology at Northwestern University. Her research examines the processes through which norms and institutions inform legal categories. Her dissertation focuses on questions of categorization and evaluation through an examination of the ways adjudicators translate applicant testimonies into cognizable narratives for asylum. Sujeong Shim, University of Wisconsin Catalytic Politics: When do International Monetary Fund (IMF) Programs Trigger Private Capital into the Borrowing Country?” Sujeong Shim is a PhD candidate in political science at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research interests include international finance, international organizations, economic crisis, and public opinion. Her latest work examines how public opinion affects the IMF program’s design and efficacy. Jamie Sommer, Stony Brook University Is Bilateral Environmental Aid Effective? A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss Jamie Sommer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She received her Master’s in sociology from Stony Brook University and BA from Montclair State University. Her research interests include global political economy, environmental sociology, and development and health. Andreas Wiedemann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Borrowed Dreams: Household Debt and the Social Policy Mismatch in Germany, Denmark, and the United States Andreas Wiedemann is a PhD candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying political economy, comparative politics, and political behavior. His research explores how and in what ways families across advanced democracies borrow money to address the mismatch between their financial needs and social policies’ financial support. Alon Yakter, University of Michigan Circles of Solidarity: Diversity and Welfare Policies in Developed Democracies Special Award: Robert K. Merton Award Alon Yakter is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. His research interests include comparative political economy, social policy, identity politics, and political parties. His work examines how the economic and geographic contexts of ethnic, linguistic, and religious cleavages shape solidarity and welfare policies. Please reload

2021 Grant Recipients Victoria Asbury-Kimmel Assessing the Effects of Immigration Discourse on Subjective Evaluations of Americanness and Resource Allocation ​ Joshua Feigenbaum Award Victoria Asbury is a PhD candidate in sociology at Harvard University. She is a cultural sociologist who engages innovative methods to provide empirical knowledge about American identity, racial attitudes, immigration, and US politics. In “Assessing the Effects of Immigration Discourse on Subjective Evaluations of Americanness,” Victoria takes an innovative multidimensional experimental approach to assess the relative weight of ascribed (e.g. nativity, race, and gender) and morally imbued acquired characteristics in conceptions of national belonging. Furthermore, she uses experimental manipulations informed by original computational text analyses of nearly 28,000 political documents from national Democratic and Republican lawmakers to show how language oriented towards breaking down or propping up boundaries between immigrants and native-born citizens can alter evaluations of national belonging. This work is based on an original nation-wide study conducted by YouGov in August 2021 of 4,500 non-Hispanic White Americans. This research provides a fuller, multidimensional gradational portrait of who is and is not considered “truly American” by White people in the United States. Furthermore, this work shows that prototypical immigration discourse can influence the perceived importance of ascribed and acquired characteristics for national belonging. Benjamin A. Barsky Assessing Individual and Structural Factors Associated with Opioid Mortality among Recently Incarcerated Individuals in Massachusetts Benjamin A. Barsky is a Ph.D. candidate in Health Policy at Harvard University. Ben researches in the areas of health law and justice, mental health policy, and disability rights. He received his J.D. and Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Opioid overdose is the leading cause of death among recently released incarcerated individuals. The risk of opioid mortality is also highest in the first two weeks after release, accentuating the need for social and health care supports immediately upon release. Still, little is known about (1) person-level characteristics (e.g., length of incarceration, health status) that drive opioid mortality after release; (2) the role of place and geographic context in influencing opioid-related incidents; and (3) the preventive and protective effect of health care safety net resources, including public health insurance and targeted opioid use disorder treatment programs. This study promises to fill these gaps in the literature. In so doing, it intends to (1) identify specific interventions that will improve health outcomes among recently released incarcerated individuals and (2) inform the design of laws, policies, and programs that allow for healthier transitions back into the community. Lindsay Bing Beyond Conviction: Criminal Court Processes and their Implications for Inequality Lindsay Bing is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and co-founder of the Texas Prison Education Initiative, a program offering college courses inside Texas prisons. Bing's research focuses on how the American criminal legal system shapes life chances at the individual and population level. Amidst rising awareness of the harms of mass incarceration, states are expanding legal interventions that allow defendants to avoid the mark of criminal conviction. Bing's dissertation uses a unique compilation of linked administrative data to investigate the changing contours and consequences of criminal legal contact, asking whether and how the expansion of alternatives to conviction affects inequality and social mobility. Ana P. Canedo The Economic and Social Consequences of Return Migration to Mexico Ana Canedo is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. Her research lies at the intersection of economic inequality and social policy, with a special focus on immigration policy, education, and labor markets. Her dissertation explores how return migration from the U.S. to Mexico ––both voluntary and forced–– affects the economic and social prospects of Mexico’s population. While the social and labor market effects of immigration inflows on the U.S. have attracted a lot of attention among researchers, the consequences of return migration on the home country have been comparatively under-researched. This is rather surprising since a large proportion of migrants return home at some point in their life, bringing back with them their accumulated savings, acquired knowledge, and human and social capital. The project employs mixed methods, including a combination of linear fixed effects regression models and instrumental variable analysis, discrete-time models, and semi-structured interviews to address the gaps in our understanding of the economic and social consequences of return migration to Mexico. Neko Castleberry Examining the Direct and Indirect Effects of Contraceptive Access Neko Michelle Castleberry is a doctoral candidate in American University's Department of Public Administration and Policy. Her research interests include policies regarding family planning, reproductive health care, LGBTQ+ health disparities, and gender equality. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she conducted research at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Focusing on state and federal policies that eliminate contraceptive costs for users, this dissertation examines the direct effects of no-cost contraceptives on contraceptive usage and likelihood of unintended birth, as well as the indirect effects of mothers having access to no-cost contraceptives on the health of young children. Matt Fowle The Color of Homelessness: The Causes, Reproduction, and Consequences of Racial Inequality in Homelessness Matt Fowle is a PhD Candidate in Public Policy and Management at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research uncovers how public policies and institutions can either reinforce or undermine housing security and well-being among low-income households of color. “The Color of Homelessness: The Causes, Reproduction, and Consequences of Racial Inequality in Homelessness,” examines three crucial questions on racial inequality in homelessness: 1) What causes it? 2) What reproduces it? and 3) What are its consequences? Employing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, he interrogates the extent to which racial disparities in homelessness are both a key outcome of inequities produced by public policies and social institutions and a primary factor in reproducing downward intergenerational mobility and premature death. Konrad Franco Investigating the Relationship between Jails, Incarceration, and Health Care Institutions Konrad Franco is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Davis. His research broadly pertains to punishment and health. He primarily uses quantitative methods paired with contemporary and historical administrative data to study jails, prisons, immigration detention centers, clinics, and hospitals. Franco's dissertation is focused on the relationship between county jails and the various health care facilities that provide treatment for mental health disorders, substance use disorders, or general acute needs. He uses quasi-experimental research designs to investigate if the availability of inpatient or outpatient mental health care treatment contributes to either changes in jail incarceration or the health of the incarcerated. He also evaluates the negative spillover effects of jail infrastructure on nearby clinics and hospitals. Max Griswold An Evaluation of Crime-Free Housing Ordinances ​ Donald R. Cressey Award Max Griswold is a PhD student and policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses on how health, housing, and criminal justice policies create inequitable outcomes within marginalized communities. Over 2000 US cities have crime-free housing ordinances (CFHOs), including 150 cities within California. Despite the prevalence of CFHOs, no previous research has investigated if this policy achieves its stated aim of reducing crime within cities. Evaluating this policy is particularly important given the potential to limit civil rights: CFHOs require low-income housing units to include a supplemental lease agreement as part of their standard lease, stating law enforcement can compel landlords to evict tenants, even without an arrest or conviction for a crime. This project aims to evaluate the effects of CFHOs within cities using a combination of causal identification strategies and semi-structured interviews with community-based organizations and community members. Erin Ice Patching Up the Safety Net: The Negotiation and Construction of Long-Term Care Systems in the U.S. ​ Eli Ginzberg Award Erin Ice is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Erin’s research investigates how an aging population challenges and reorganizes contemporary family life and welfare state arrangements. Her dissertation project interrogates policymakers' push to “age in place.” To do so, she studies how kin caregivers and aging adults manage health and residential transitions. With interview, ethnographic, and survey data, she outlines the multiple ways that independence gets invoked, performed, and prioritized in caregiving relationships. These ideals of independence both strain and alleviate the work involved to make “aging in place” a reality. Yifan Jia Dealing with the Perpetrators of Gross Human Rights Violations Abroad: A Study of the use of “Magnitsky” Sanctions ​ Harold D. Lasswell Award Yifan Jia is a PhD candidate in law at King’s College London. She is a qualified lawyer and practiced criminal law in Beijing before joining King's. Her research interests are human rights law, criminal law and criminal justice, especially from transnational and international perspectives. Jia’s project investigates, on the one hand, the human rights-centered justification of global human rights sanctions regimes, and on the other hand, potential human rights concerns arising when they are used, and the risk of undue ‘politicization’ of decisions to impose sanctions. The project also aims to examine the impacts of global human rights sanctions regimes. Sandhya Kajeepeta Estimating the Unintended and Racialized Consequences of the Police-Centric Response to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Sandhya Kajeepeta is a Senior Researcher at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and a PhD candidate in epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the public health consequences of criminalization and incarceration and the impacts of criminal legal responses to violence. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an urgent public health and public safety problem that constitutes a growing proportion of violent crime. Since the 1980s, policing has been the US's primary response to IPV despite inconclusive evidence of its effectiveness and increased recognition of the harms of mass criminalization. The police-centric response to IPV, including mandatory arrest laws, may have unintended consequences for survivor health and safety, and these consequences may disproportionately harm survivors of color. Sandhya's dissertation research aims to estimate such unintended and racialized consequences of the policing response to IPV. Anisa Kline Uncounted and Invisible: The Lives and Health of H-2A Workers in Ohio Anisa Kline is a PhD candidate in the Geography Department at the Ohio State University and a board member of MHPSalud, a national nonprofit that promotes community health workers in Latino communities. Her academic background is in Spanish and Latin American Studies. Her current project utilizes a mixed methods survey of Mexican and Central American agricultural guestworkers throughout Ohio to examine how their working and living arrangements impact their health, occupational safety, and healthcare access. Inspired by the summer she spent doing farmworker outreach, her research aims to identify potential policy changes that could improve the health and wellbeing of this population. Sarah Kotb Pay-As-You-Go Healthcare: The Effects of Ungated Healthcare on Formal Insurance Markets ​ Irving Louis Horowitz Award Sarah Kotb is a PhD Candidate at Harvard's Health Policy program and its economics track. Her research interests lie in public insurance programs and the tradeoffs involved in their design. Prior to starting her PhD, Sarah worked as a Research Fellow at the Stanford Law School. Sarah's project aims to examine how formal health insurance markets respond to the provision of care that is ungated by insurance such as subsidized clinics and state-sponsored programs for the uninsured. With the increasing availability of these free and subsidized sources of care, prior research has hypothesized that some groups may have less of an incentive to purchase formal insurance that requires monthly premiums and/or have high deductibles. The project will empirically examine the extent to which this effect takes place and whether it is particularly pronounced among healthy groups leading to adverse selection. Sarah Kwon Three Papers on Childcare and Labor Supply Sarah Jiyoon Kwon is a Social Policy Analysis PhD candidate at Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research is motivated by a desire to promote the lives of children and families. She studies family and child policy and its effect on child care experiences, child development, and family well-being. Sarah’s dissertation includes three papers that examine the role of child care policy in promoting early childhood education and care and parent labor supply. The first paper examines the heterogeneous effects of universal prekindergarten (UPK) on center-based care enrollments and child care expenditures by household income with a specific focus on middle-income children who experience a “child care squeeze.” The second paper explores the effect of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) on center-based care enrollments and maternal labor supply using a simulated instrument approach. Finally, the third paper investigates whether and to what extent grandparents can play a buffering role in the labor supply of parents of children aged 0-5 during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the importance of grandparental care specifically and home-based care and informal care in general in times of a health and child care crisis. Lukas Lehner Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of Guaranteed Job Program Lukas Lehner is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. He researches labor market policies and has founded the Oxford Supertracker. Previously, he worked as an economist at the OECD in Paris and at the International Labour Organization in Geneva. His project consists of a randomized control trial and synthetic control method to evaluate a pilot job guarantee program. The program provides employment opportunities to long-term unemployed and is implemented by the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS). It has been featured by the OECD, ILO, Financial Times, Forbes, and CNN. Meiying Li Is the Gender Wage Gap Mitigated or Exacerbated by Family Policies? Evidence from a Cross-National Analysis of OECD Countries ​ John L. Stanley Award Meiying Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the USC. Her research interests include gender inequality, family policies, and quantitative methods. Her publications include a review of how work-family reconciliation policies have affected gender inequality, and how neighborhood inequality has perpetuated unequal access to COVID vaccination. Due to the Build Back Better legislation, early childhood education and care (ECEC) and paid parental leave are in the spotlight. Although the benefits of such policies are clear for children and families, the effects on gender wage inequality are unclear. This dissertation evaluates how these policies affect gender wage inequality. Specifically, I examine the possibility that family policies exacerbate gender inequality, especially in high-skilled occupations. I argue that these consequences are associated only with long paid leaves (over 9 months), but shorter leaves and ECEC actually mitigate gender-based inequality. The results will help reconcile the opposing points of view. Chuncheng Liu A Tale of Two Credits: Contested Algorithms of Trust of Chinese Social Credit Systems Chuncheng Liu is a sociology and science studies PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego. He studies how states and markets classify and quantify people, with a particular interest in the politics of algorithms. Liu's dissertation project utilizes ethnography and surveys to examine the Chinese social credit systems (SCSs), which evaluate citizens’ trustworthiness into scores with different algorithms. He explores the design, implementation, and perception of SCSs across different stages to unpack the mechanism and consequences of the algorithms on the ground. Nicholas Mark What Changed? Cumulative (Dis)Advantage and the Role of Social Policy in Black-White Infant Health Disparities ​ Martinus Nijhoff Award Nicholas Mark is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at New York University. He studies the causal mechanisms linking racism and social conditions to inequality in educational and health outcomes, with an emphasis on understanding the potential for social policy to reduce disparities. Nick's dissertation assesses the potential for social policy to influence racial inequality in infant health. He first presents a rich description of Black-White inequality in birth weight across age, space, and time. He then estimates the causal effects of specific policies and harmful exposures to better understand how policy could be targeted to reduce inequality. Tara Nicola Writing the Right Thing: Do Counselor Recommendation Letters Promote Equity in Selective College Admission? ​ Trustees' Award Tara Nicola is a PhD candidate in Education at Harvard University. Her research focuses on issues concerning access, choice, and equity in higher education, especially in relation to the college admission process. She holds an MSc from the University of Oxford and a BA from Johns Hopkins University. Nicola's dissertation explores the landscape of counselor recommendation letters for undergraduate admission. Although most selective colleges require undergraduate applicants to submit a high school counselor recommendation letter, it is unknown if systematic differences exist in what counselors share. Nicola uses machine learning and natural language processing techniques to document the content and features of letters at scale, showing the ways this application component designed to ameliorate inequity in the selective college admission process can perpetuate it instead. Ertugrul Polat Understanding the Variation in Social Policies for Vulnerable Children in Europe: Policies, Politics, and Outcomes ​ Robert K. Merton Award Ertuğrul is a PhD student in Social Policy at the University of Oxford. He has worked for various non-governmental and international organizations as a country expert and policy analyst. His research interests include child and family policies, child poverty, political representation and politics of social policy. Ertugrul's dissertation aims to investigate the conditions suitable for the development of social policies for disadvantaged children in European welfare states, where they have emerged as one of the most vulnerable groups in recent years. Why do some countries promote children’s welfare, while others do not? To understand this variation, Ertugrul's PhD project examines the role of social and political actors, such as governments, political parties, parliamentarians, bureaucrats, international organizations and human rights advocates in promoting children’s welfare. Amber Powell Hidden in Carceral Sight: A Qualitative Examination of Youth Sexual Victimization in Detention Amber is a Sociology PhD Candidate at the University of Minnesota and an American Bar Fellow National Science Foundation Law & Inequality Fellow and Ruth Peterson Fellow. Her research interests include the law, crime, punishment, and racialized gendered violence. 7.1% of youth in juvenile detention facilities and 2 percent of youth in adult facilities report sexual victimization. Yet, few sociolegal or criminological studies have examined how sexual violence occurs within youth detention. Using 76 interviews with legal practioners and formerly incarcerated survivors and over 150 legal documents, my dissertation investigates how carceral institutions reproduce, frame, and respond to sexual victimization in youth detention. Dasha Pruss Algorithmic Fairness in Practice: How Judge Discretion Interacts with a Sentencing Risk Assessment Instrument Dasha Pruss is a PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She uses qualitative, quantitative, and theoretical approaches to study the social impacts of AI/ML systems. Her dissertation focuses on predictive algorithms used in the criminal legal system, including risk assessment instruments. Risk assessment instruments are often presented as a progressive judicial reform – a way of reducing bias in sentencing, abolishing cash bail, and reducing mass incarceration. In reality, little is known about whether and how risk assessment instruments promote these progressive goals. This project empirically studies the impacts of the Sentence Risk Assessment Instrument, a new recidivism risk assessment instrument used in sentencing decisions in Pennsylvania criminal courts. The project focuses on the interaction between judicial discretion and risk assessment recommendations. Qualitatively, it analyzes how judges interpret and use these recommendations. Quantitatively, it assesses how often judicial decisions conform to recommendations for different kinds of defendants. Meredith Slopen The Impact of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Women’s Employment, Wellbeing and Health Meredith Slopen is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Policy Analysis at the Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research focuses on workplace and labor policies as social determinants of health and family wellbeing. Slopen's dissertation examines the potential of paid sick leave (PSL) mandates to improve health, health care utilization, workforce participation, and economic security among women in the United States. The findings will increase understanding of how sick leave may provide workplace flexibility to support families, particularly low-income women and mothers. Nicholas Smith Sick by Structure: Residential Segregation, Social Networks, and Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Health Nicholas C. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research employs quantitative methods to investigate social factors that produce, maintain, and exacerbate racial-ethnic disparities in health. Nicholas’ dissertation employs multilevel quantitative methods to investigate social network processes linking residential segregation to health and health disparities among Black, White, and Hispanic Americans. Specifically, he asks: (1) What is the relationship between residential segregation and health for Black, White, and Hispanic Americans? (2) Does residential segregation attenuate or exacerbate racial-ethnic disparities in health? (3) How, if at all, does residential segregation produce racial-ethnic differences in structural, compositional, and functional characteristics of social networks? (4) Do structural, compositional, and functional characteristics of social networks mediate and/or moderate the association between residential segregation and health across racial-ethnic groups? Levi Vonk Documenting the Undocumented: Tracking Central American Resettlement and Integration in Mexico Levi Vonk is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco. His first book, Border Hacker (2022), is a work of creative nonfiction that follows the journey of one undocumented migrant hacker across Mexico. Levi's ethnographic research investigates Central American migrants' uneven access to labor protections, banking, and legalization processes in Mexico, especially in regards to temporary documents known as "humanitarian visas" currently replacing a portion of the country's traditional asylum system.

All Previous Recipients 2009 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2008 Holy Warlords: The Rise of Islamist Movements in Afghanistan and Somalia Special Recognition: Harold D. Lasswell Award Aisha S. Ahmad McGill University Political Science The Power of Politics vs. the Politics of Power: Exploring the Political Activism of Armed Groups and its Regulation Special Recognition: John L. Stanley Award Benedetta Berti Alberti Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Declining City, Born Again Citadel: Evangelical Reconstitution of Urban Life in Postindustrial America Michael James Boyle City University of New York Graduate Center Anthropology Eviction and the Reproduction of Inner-City Poverty Special Recognition: Eli Ginzberg Award Matthew Stephen Desmond University of Wisconsin Sociology Child Care Subsidies: Policy Tools for Enhancing the Lives of Low Income Children Anna Duncan Johnson Columbia University Psychology Organized Interests and the Process of Government in the Early American Republic: 1783-1800 Special Recognition: Joshua Feigenbaum Award David Keenan Northwestern University History Keeping Up or Keeping Afloat?: How and Why American Households Overspend Jeffrey D. Lundy University of California – San Diego Sociology Private Litigation, Public Policy Enforcement: The Regulatory Power of Private Litigation and American Bureaucracy Quinn W. Mulroy Columbia University Political Science One Man’s Terrorist is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter: Framing Dynamics in the Construction of Terrorist Populations Elena E. Pokalova Kent State University Political Science An Economic Analysis of Trade Secrets: Evidence from the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 Special Recognition: Martinus Nijhoff Award Nicola Charlotte Searle University of St. Andrews Economics The Organizational Problems of Organized Crime: How to Combat Thieves, Thugs, Terrorists and Traffickers Special Recognition: Robert K. Merton Award David Benjamin Skarbek George Mason University Economics Why Inequality Persists: Race, Class and Assimilation in Multi-Ethnic America Van C. Tran Harvard University Sociology and Social Policy

All Previous Recipients 2003 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2002 Paramilitaries and Democracy Sunil DasGupta The Brookings Institution Paxil and Anxiety: Social and Ethical Implications of the New Pharmacology Joseph E. Davis University of Virginia The Democracy of Political Contributions in the American States Kihong Eom University of Kentucky Closing the Gap: Explaining the Content, Heterogeneity and Survival of Minority Health Policy Proposals Drew Halfmann The University of Michigan Overcoming the Shadows of the Past: Interstate Reconciliation after Traumatic Conflicts Yinan He Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mediocracy?: Evolving Media-State Relations in Post-Authoritarian Mexico Sallie L. Hughes The University of Miami Trafficking in Women: Thinking Globally, Researching Locally Galma Jahic Rutgers University Defining the Eligible Public Housing Tenant in New York City Christopher Mele State University of New York at Buffalo Effects of Federalization on Municipal Finance in Russia’s Urban Areas Elizabeth Zeldin New York City Independent Budget Office The Collapse of Party Systems in Western Europe and Latin America Edume Zoco University of Notre Dame

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Mary E. Curtis 732-659-9197 For immediate release ​ ​ HOROWITZ FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS TO 20 SCHOLARS FOR SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH ​ May 23, 2017, New Brunswick, NJ – The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy has selected twenty scholars to receive grants for research in the social sciences for the 2016 award year. Those receiving awards, their research topics, and the institutions with which they are affiliated are listed at the end of this announcement. “This year the foundation saw a marked increase in not just the number of applications, but also the number of applicants holding citizenship in other countries, although surprisingly all recipients attend US institutions,” said Chairman, Mary E. Curtis. “The winners were chosen by the Trustees for their potential to contribute to social policy on both a global and local level. As we look forward to celebrating our twentieth year in 2018, we hope to continue aiding international scholars at home and abroad.” About the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 by Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary E. Curtis as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Its general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. Grants are awarded solely on the Trustees’ assessment of the merit of the project. All awards are to individuals, and not institutions. Since inception, the foundation has awarded grants to more than 200 scholars from over 100 different universities around the world. An increasing number of applications cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, which speaks to the importance of policy studies in the academic world and beyond. ​ Applications for 2017 Awards Award applications for next year open July 1, 2017 and all application materials are due on December 1, 2017. This represents a deadline change from previous years, which will enable award announcements to be made before the end of the academic year. Applicants are encouraged to begin their application online as early as possible. Incomplete applications will not be processed. Award winners for 2017 will be announced in May 2018. Additional information, including a list of previous recipients, is available on the Horowitz Foundation website www.horowitz-foundation.org . ​ 2016 Horowitz Foundation Award Winners Burcu Baykurt Columbia University “The City as Data Machine: Local Governance in the Age of Big Data” Andrew Breck New York University “The Effect of Participation in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Health and Healthcare Expenditure” Vicki Chen University of Pennsylvania “Paying to Stay: Why Medicare's Payment System for Home Health Care leads to Inefficiency and Waste” Elizabeth Clark Duke University “Policy Demand and the Rights to Organize: Emergence of Cooperative Fishery Governance” Ellen Dinsmore University of Wisconsin, Madison “Blurring the Thin Blue Line: The Rise of the ‘Military Model’ in American Policing” Philip Garboden Johns Hopkins University “The Geography of Profit: How Landlord Decisions Impact the Supply and Location of Subsidized Housing” Ausmita Ghosh Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis “Maternal and Infant Health Impacts of Public Health Insurance Expansions” Sebastian Lemire University of California, Los Angeles “Meta-Modeling Assertive Community Treatment” Erik Lin-Greenberg Columbia University “Game of Drones: The Effect of Technology on Conflict Onset and Initiation” Timothy Passmore University of Colorado Boulder “Pacifying the Peacekeepers: How Involvement in UN Peacekeeping Reduces the Domestic Threat of the Military” Rebecca Perlman Stanford University “When Regulations Fail: Setting Standards Under Asymmetric Information” Davin Reed New York University “Distributional and Welfare Effects of Gentrification” Manuel Rosaldo University of California, Berkeley “From Informal Work to Decent Work? Integrating Waste Pickers into Formal Waste Management in Brazil and Colombia” Shiran Shen Stanford University “The Inconvenient Truth of the Political Pollution Cycle: Theory and Evidence from China” Benjamin Shestakofsky University of California, Berkeley “Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work” Talia Shiff Northwestern University “‘Framing the Case’: Bureaucratic Efficiency Pressures in the Humanitarian Politicization, Legitimation, and Adjudication of Refugee Claims” Sujeong Shim University of Wisconsin, Madison “Catalytic Politics: When do International Monetary Fund (IMF) Programs Trigger Private Capital into the Borrowing Country?” Jamie Sommer Stony Brook University “Is Bilateral Environmental Aid Effective? A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss” Andreas Wiedemann Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Borrowed Dreams: Household Debt and the Social Policy Mismatch in Germany, Denmark, and the United States” Alon Yakter University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Circles of Solidarity: Diversity and Welfare Policies in Developed Democracies” Special Awards are granted to projects that are considered outstanding in certain fields of research and come with additional grant money. Special Awards were selected as follows: 2016 Special Award Recipients Donald R. Cressey Award Ellen Dinsmore Eli Ginzberg Award Vicki Chen Harold D. Lasswell Award Timothy Passmore Robert K. Merton Award Alon Yakter Martinus Nijhoff Award Ausmita Ghosh Irving Louis Horowitz Award Erik Lin-Greenberg Mary E. Curtis, Chairman Irving Louis Horowitz, Chairman Emeritus Post Office Box 7 Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553-0007 www.horowitz-foundation.org

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ABOUT THE FOUNDATION The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 by Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary E. Curtis as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Its general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. ​ The idea for the Foundation emerged from Irving Louis Horowitz’s experience working with doctoral students. He found that many faced financial barriers to completing their research. Dr. Horowitz initially provided assistance to these scholars personally, and later through Transaction Publishers’ Grants-in-Publication Program. After the termination of that program, the foundation was established in 1997. The first grants were issued in 1998. Mary E. Curtis & Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, Founders Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, 1968