IGERT: Multidisciplinary and Comparative Program in Inequality & Social Policy

不平等社会政策计划是在国家科学基金会提供的IGERT赠款的第一批中产生的。 在我们最初的奖项，我们创建了一个计划，培训了大约40名年轻学者，以了解不平等的起源，模式和后果，主要集中在美国的经验。 在更新期间，我们寻求支持，以深化对国内趋势的研究，并对西欧的比较模式进行更明确和持续的关注，作为补充。在西欧，收入分配的顶层和底层之间的差距也在扩大。欧洲的经验特别重要，因为它是在与美国截然不同的政治和社会制度的背景下发展的，通常旨在保护公民免受经济不安全、贫困和物质困难的影响。 因此，尽管这两个地区都经历了失业、低技能工人需求下降和单亲率上升，但由于制度差异，结果往往不同（在贫困率、隔离和政治参与方面）。 这一更新的学术价值尤其在于，比较分析对我们为理解国内不平等模式而开发的框架、方法和发现提出了挑战。我们提出的研究和培训的更广泛影响将在未来几年以重要的新学术形式体现出来，这些学术研究涉及历史不平等水平所产生的关键社会问题，从收入和收入的不平等，到种族群体之间在教育程度和政治参与方面的差距，再到不利条件在空间和地理上的集中，影响到就业、流动性、犯罪、健康和家庭组成模式。 这些都是相当重要的社会，我们生活的主题，我们鼓励我们的学生和教师都写的专业和广大公众。我们维持的网站每月有2 000多次点击，证明我们在培训赠款过程中产生的奖学金产生了更广泛的影响，头五年我们的受训人员中有20%是少数民族;一半以上是妇女。 近30%的教师参与者是少数民族。 我们希望这一记录将继续下去，我们寻求的更新将有助于我们影响科学劳动力的多样性。经济学，政治学，公共政策，社会学或新创建的政府社会政策和社会学社会政策联合博士课程的课程有资格参加培训计划。 被录取的学生必须参加以下核心活动：（1）三学期的跨学科研讨会，

The Inequality & Social Policy program came into being in the very first cohort of IGERT grants provided by the National Science Foundation. During our initial award, we created a program that trained some forty young scholars to understand the origins, patterns, and consequences of inequality, focusing primarily on the American experience. For the renewal period, we seek support to deepen our work on domestic trends and complement it with more explicit and sustained attention to comparative patterns in Western Europe, where widening gaps between the top and bottom of the income distribution have developed as well.The European experience is particularly important because it is evolving in the context of political and social institutions that are dramatically different from the U.S., often designed to protect citizens from economic insecurity, poverty, and material hardship. Hence, while both regions experience bouts of unemployment, declining demand for low-skilled workers, and rising rates of single parenthood, the consequences are often different (in terms of poverty rates, segregation, and political participation) because of institutional variation. The intellectual merit of this renewal lies especially in challenge that comparative analysis poses to the frameworks, methods, and findings we have developed to understand the domestic patterns of inequality.The broader impact of the research and training we propose will be felt for years to come in the form of important new scholarship on the critical social problems that emerge out of historic levels of inequality, ranging from inequities in income and earnings, to gaps between racial groups in educational attainment and political participation, to spatial and geographic concentrations of disadvantage that affect employment, mobility, crime, health, and patterns of family formation. These are topics of considerable importance to the society we live in, and we encourage our students and faculty to write both for the profession and for the broad public. The web site we maintain receives over 2,000 hits per month, attesting to the broader impact of the scholarship we are producing in the course of this training grant.Twenty percent of our trainees in the first five years are minorities; over half are women. Nearly 30% of our faculty participants are minorities. We expect this track record will continue and that the renewal we seek will help us impact the diversity of the scientific workforce.Students admitted into Ph.D. programs in Economics, Political Science, Public Policy, Sociology or the newly created joint doctoral programs in Government & Social Policy and Sociology & Social Policy are eligible for the training program. Those accepted must participate in the following core activities:(1) Three-term Interdisciplinary Proseminar in In