This $272,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on how people make decisions and interact based on information. The key research focuses include: 1) understanding the long-term implications of people's limited or imperfect memory, which can lead to overconfidence and neglect of rare events; 2) examining how people decide...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $196,083 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The funding supports a collaborative research project that combines rich data with economic theory to study how the burden of market failures is shared across different households and sectors in the U.S. economy. The project develops tools to estimate distortions such...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Yale University $165,000.00 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INFORMATION AND MARKETS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. This Project Grant funding will support Yale University's research examining how information and markets interact. Specifically, the university will conduct basic research and education in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,998 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 1, 2021 for research concluding May 31, 2022. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields. Specifically, MIT will use the funding to conduct a study titled "FIRM RELOCATION AS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: IMPACTS ON AGGLOMERATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT." The research will...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,945 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 1, 2021 for collaborative research titled "Context Dependence Across Categories: Bridging Developmental, Experimental, and Theoretical Perspectives." The research is being conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $162,948 project grant to Stanford University on September 15, 2021 for strategic information disclosure research. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) and will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 exploring how the strategic release of information impacts decision-making. The grant supports basic research examining how individuals and organizations make choices when some...
This $286,178 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on how changes in information dissemination and consumption can impact strategic decision-making and the achievement of common goals. The project aims to develop new methodological tools to measure information similarity across individuals and analyze its effects on collective action problems, coordination games, and policy...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $221,000 project grant to the University of Chicago under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant will support collaborative research examining heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations. The funding will enable researchers to investigate how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. Relevant contextual details include the program's goal of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $320,133 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMPCOG: ADVERSARIAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON INTUITIVE PHYSICAL REASONING." The award period is from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute...
This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research on heterogeneous agent modeling of the personal data economy. With a performance period from August 2021 through July 2023, this award will support the development of models to analyze how individual behaviors and interactions shape markets involving the exchange of personal data. As part of its mission to advance the social and economic sciences, the NSF SBE...