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

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. 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

Chavez, Koji. 2020 “Penalized for Personality: A Case Study of Asian-Origin Disadvantage in Hiring.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: 1-21.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 + a current CV

National Science Foundation, 2020-2021

Russell Sage Foundation, Future of Work Initiative 2020-2021

CHAVEZ_CV_2024 Download