Conference: Dissecting Inequality: Difference and Disparity in the 21st Century

该奖项将为2015年在杜克大学举行的会议提供部分支持。会议包括各种活动，以支持“剖析不平等：21世纪的差异与差距”的总主题。来自NSF的资金将支持一项创新计划，让经济学、社会学、心理学、人口学和相关领域的初级学者在经济学和社会学的杰出资深学者的指导下共同制定未来的合作研究计划。美国收入不平等的事实在现有的研究中得到了充分的证明。这次会议的目的是促进对不平等的原因和后果进行新的研究。这次会议将促进这一重要研究课题的科学进展。它还将促进国家的繁荣和福祉；这一领域更好的科学可以为促进所有美国人繁荣的政策做出重要贡献。会议的研究会议将考虑不平等和群体认同的研究现状。考虑的未来研究方向将依赖于混合方法，包括广泛的调查研究和实地实验。将考虑四个具体领域：教育、就业、收入/财富和健康/福祉。将注意在社会和个人两级建立群体认同，以及这种认同如何产生于不平等的再生产并可能助长不平等的再生产。

This award provides partial support for a conference to be held at Duke University in 2015. The conference includes a variety of activities to support the overall theme of "Dissecting Inequality: Difference and Disparity in the 21st Century". Funds from the NSF award will support an innovative plan to have junior scholars in Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Demography, and related fields work together plans for future collaborative research under the guidance of a distinguished group of senior scholars from Economics and Sociology. The fact of income inequality in the United States is well-documented in existing work. The goal of the conference is to spur new research on the causes and consequences of inequality. The conference will promote the progress of science on this important topic of research. It will also advance the national prosperity and welfare; better science in this area can contribute in an important way to policies designed to promote prosperity for all Americans.The research sessions at the conference will consider the current state of research on inequality and group identity. Directions considered for future research will rely on a mixed methods approach that includes both broad-based survey research and field experiments. Four specific domains will be considered: education, employment, income/wealth, and health/wellbeing. Attention will be given to the construction of group identity at both the social and individual levels and how that identity results from and possibly contributes to the reproduction of inequality.