IGERT: Multidisciplinary and Comparative Program in Inequality & Social Policy

“不平等与社会政策”项目是由美国国家科学基金会提供的第一批IGERT资助项目。在我们最初的奖励期间，我们创建了一个项目，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，主要关注美国的经验。在更新期间，我们寻求支持，以深化我们关于国内趋势的工作，并以更明确和持续地关注西欧的比较模式作为补充，西欧收入分配的最高和最低阶层之间的差距也在扩大。欧洲的经验尤其重要，因为它是在与美国截然不同的政治和社会制度背景下发展起来的，这些制度往往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一轮又一轮的失业、对低技能工人的需求下降和单亲率上升，但由于制度差异，其后果往往是不同的（在贫困率、种族隔离和政治参与方面）。这种更新的智力价值尤其在于，比较分析对我们为理解国内不平等模式而发展起来的框架、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研究的形式体现出来，这些重要的社会问题是由历史上的不平等水平产生的，从收入和收入的不平等，到种族群体在教育程度和政治参与方面的差距，到影响就业、流动性、犯罪、健康和家庭形成模式的空间和地理劣势集中。这些都是对我们所处的社会相当重要的话题，我们鼓励我们的学生和教师为专业和广大公众写作。我们维护的网站每月有超过2000次的点击率，这证明了我们在这项培训资助的过程中所产生的奖学金的广泛影响。前五年，我们20%的受训者是少数族裔；其中超过一半是女性。我们近30%的教职员工是少数族裔。我们预计这一记录将继续下去，我们寻求的更新将帮助我们影响科学劳动力的多样性。已取得经济学、政治学、公共政策、社会学博士学位的学生，或新设立的政府与社会政策、社会学与社会政策联合博士学位的学生，均可参加本培训计划。被录取者必须参加以下核心活动：(1)在in进行为期三年的跨学科专业研讨会

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