Project Grant 03GAI013NC

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science provides $478,846 to support research on the macroeconomic implications of imperfectly competitive labor markets. The award will fund a collaborative research project led by the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. to develop quantitative frameworks analyzing how minimum wage policies, antitrust policies, and tax policies can improve outcomes in labor markets with wage setting power. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant provides $138,000 to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the development of labor scheduling standards in the United States. The fellowship recipient will conduct a comparative study of eight jurisdictions that considered fair workweek legislation between 2014 and 2021, including cases where laws were enacted and rejected. Through original interviews with policymakers and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a National Job Classification System for Research Administrators. The goal is to create a standardized framework to enhance the recruitment, retention, and compensation of qualified research administrators across all academic institutions, especially emerging and minority-serving ones. In collaboration with the Society of Research Administrators International (SRA International), the...

This Project Grant award of $368,490.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences is funding research by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (NBER) to study how companies determine employee compensation, including the use of salary benchmarking and pay equity tools. The project has two main components: 1) studying the effects of salary benchmarking, a common practice where companies use aggregated market data to set employee pay, and 2)...

The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $450,038 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to study the effectiveness of public-private partnerships in education. The two-year award beginning August 2022 will support research comparing student learning outcomes between those randomly assigned to attend public-private partnership schools versus traditional public schools through a lottery system. Administrative data on...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs awarded Partners of the Americas, Inc. a $46.2 million cooperative agreement under the International Labor Programs (CFDA 17.401) to reduce wage suppression and unfair labor practices in key Mexican trade sectors. Awarded on December 31, 2025, with completion targeted for June 30, 2030, this 54-month initiative operates across five Mexican states (Mexico City, Baja California, Jalisco,...

This three-year, $714,600 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to advance understanding of state formation in fragile post-conflict settings. The grantee, the National Bureau of Economic Research, will collaborate with local government and a non-governmental organization to experimentally evaluate a legal capacity building program implemented in a target city. The program has two treatment arms - a "punitive" arm in...

This three-year, $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of novel methods to enable standards- and disclosure-based regulation of algorithmic work management software. The University of California, San Diego will work to make such software accountable to existing labor laws and address gaps in regulations to better protect workers. Specifically, the university will pursue three thrusts:...

This Project Grant award of $206,574.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on the legal characteristics and governance of international organizations. The principal investigator at the American Bar Foundation will conduct a comprehensive analysis of the charters and legal documents that establish these organizations, identifying key features such as voting rules, budgeting processes, immunities, and...