Presidential Young Investigator Award

该奖项根据国家科学基金会的总统青年研究员奖计划向大卫·B·格鲁斯基博士提供支持。该计划的目标是为国家最杰出和最有前途的年轻科学和工程教师提供研究支持。这些奖项旨在提高美国学术机构应对学术和工业研究和教学对高素质科学和工程人才的需求的能力。这一奖项将允许这位研究者继续他在美国社会分层研究方面的研究。他的工作目标是呈现过去150年来美国社会流动性的比率、模式和来源的系统历史。他将建立一个来自各种当代和历史来源的可比单位记录数据的标准化档案，并将使用这些数据来评估长期经济和体制变化对流动制度参数的影响。这一结果将为经济增长和发展对以下方面的持续辩论提供新的证据：(A)社会阶层的人口构成；(B)黑人和其他少数群体向上流动的机会；(C)社会分层中种族差异的结构。

This award provides support to Dr. David B. Grusky under the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Awards program. The objectives of this program are to provide research support to the Nation's most outstanding and promising young science and engineering faculty. The awards are intended to improve the capability of U.S. academic institutions to respond to the demand for highly qualified science and engineering personnel for academic and industrial research and teaching. This award will allow the investigator to pursue his research in the study of social stratification in the United States. The objective of his work is to present a systematic history of the rates, patterns, and sources of American social mobility over the last 150 years. He will construct a standardized archive of comparable unit- record data from a variety of contemporary and historical sources, and will use these data to assess the effects of long-term economic and institutional changes on the parameters of the mobility regime. The results will provide new evidence on the continuing debates over the effects of economic growth and development on (a) the demographic composition of social classes, (b) the opportunities for upward mobility among blacks and other minorities, and (c) the structure of ethnic differences in social stratification.