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

It’s hard to describe how difficult writing is, but this clip really captures my process, warts and all.

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

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

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.