Recent Pubs, Grants, and CV

Here are some links to some recent publications, grants, and my (hopefully) updated CV.

The sweet spot of academic research.

Some recent work (^†Denotes shared first-authorship)

Chavez, Koji, Katherine Weisshaar^†, and Tania Hutt. 2026. “An Imperfect Match? Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Across Skill Matching.” Social Forces 00:1-20.Download

Chavez, Koji. 2025. “Gendered Pathways to the Job Offer: Stereotypes and Diversity Value During Job Offer Decisions in Software Engineering Hiring.” Socius 11:1-17.Download

Weisshaar, Katherine, Koji Chavez^†, and Tania Cabello-Hutt. 2024. “Hiring Discrimination Under Pressures to Diversify: Gender, Race, and Diversity Commodification Across Job Transitions in Software Engineering.” American Sociological Review 89(3):584-613.
*Winner of the 2025 W. Richard Scott Outstanding Article Award (Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, American Sociological Association)
*Winner of the 2025 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award (Race, Gender, and Class Section, American Sociological Association)
*Winner of the 2025 Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award (Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section, American Sociological Association)Download

Chavez, Koji, Kate Weisshaar^†, and Tania Cabello-Hutt. 2022. “Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Field Experiment of Accountants, 2018-2020.” Work & Occupations:49(3):275-315.Download

Chavez, Koji. 2021 “Penalized for Personality: A Case Study of Asian-Origin Disadvantage in Hiring.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7(2):226-246.Download

Chavez, Koji. 2020 “Education and Referrals: Parallel Mechanisms of White and Asian Hiring Advantage in a Silicon Valley High Technology Firm.” Research in the Sociology of Work, Special Issue 34:83-113.Download

Wingfield, Adia, and Koji Chavez. 2020 “Getting In, Getting Hired, Getting Sideways Looks: Organizational Hierarchy and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination.” American Sociological Review 85(1):31-57 Download

Chavez, Koji and Adia Harvey Wingfield. 2018. “Racializing Gendered Interactions.” In The Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, edited by B. Risman, C. Froyum, and W. Scarborough. New York: Springer Science + Business Media.Download

Chavez, Koji, Chris Wimer, David M. Betson, and Lucas Manfield. 2018.“Medical Needs and Poverty Among the Elderly Population: The Role of Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenditures and Annuitized Assets under the Supplemental Poverty Measure.” Social Security Bulletin 78(1):47-75.Download

Some stuff from back in grad school

Chavez, Koji and Beth Red Bird. 2015. “Occupational Closure and Immigrant Economic Incorporation.” Pp. 294-319 in How Global Migration Changes the Workforce Diversity Equation, edited by M. Pilati, Sheikh Hina, F. Sperotti, and C. Tilly. Newcastle: UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Download

Danziger, Sheldon, Koji Chavez, Erin Cumberworth. October, 2012. A Great Recession Brief: Poverty and the Great Recession. Stanford, CA: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.Download

Some recent grants and a current CV

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Faculty Seed Grant Award. Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES), 2024

National Science Foundation, 2020-2021

Russell Sage Foundation, Future of Work Initiative 2020-2021

Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), 2020

Faculty Seed Grant Award. Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES), 2019

2019. Carolina Population Center (CPC). Seed Grant Award.