Research highlights
In a 2025 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article, Jeremy Freese and colleagues revisit a long-standing concern in the social sciences: the file drawer problem. This term refers to the selective non-publication of studies with…
In a special issue of the Russell Sage Foundation Journal in 2024, David Grusky and collaborators make the case for a new national platform for real-time qualitative interviewing. Drawing on the American Voices Project—thousands of in-depth…
In an article published in Law & Society Review in 2025, Asad L. Asad and former Stanford PhD student Livia-Baer Bositis show that heavy immigration enforcement makes Latino U.S. citizens and noncitizens less likely to participate in everyday…
In summer 2024, researchers at Stanford University collaborated with the Santa Clara County Public Defender to pilot an innovative “Systems Navigator” program developed by Professor Matthew Clair. Systems Navigators are nonlawyer advocates in a…
In a 2025 article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, C. Matthew Snipp and colleagues investigate the health consequences of the U.S. Dawes Act of 1887, which sought to assimilate American Indians by distributing…
Over the past four decades, China has transformed from a society with modest income differences and little private wealth into one of the most unequal countries in the world, rivaling the United States and Russia. In an article published in The…
In a 2025 Ethnic and Racial Studies article, Stanford postdoctoral scholar Pei Palmgren, Tomás Jiménez, and colleagues analyze the U.S. refugee co-sponsorship model, where community volunteers partner with resettlement agencies to help newcomers…
In a 2025 article in the Journal of Family Issues, Michael Rosenfeld analyzes how the pandemic reshaped dating and relationship formation in the United States. Drawing on nationally representative data from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together…
The Stanford Jail and Prison Education Program (SJPEP) is a graduate-student–run, interdisciplinary initiative that connects Stanford’s academic community with incarcerated individuals at Bay Area jails and prisons. It fosters “two-way learning”…
We all know the shorthand: some neighborhoods are “safe,” others “dangerous,” and a few “on the rise.” These reputations carry real consequences, shaping who moves in, what businesses invest, and how residents are treated. But until now, no one…