This $310,755 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Texas A&M University from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2025 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The researchers will use detailed data from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to study the effects of natural disasters on businesses and consumer welfare in Texas. Through innovative modeling and analysis of business closures, credit card purchase data, and disaster aid records, the project aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $339,176 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Colorado Boulder on August 15, 2022 for work completing July 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining response and resilience to compound extreme climate events within pastoral systems, with a focus on droughts, floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts. The University of Colorado will lead interdisciplinary work analyzing how...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $298,982 Project Grant to Texas A&M University on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2023. The grant supports the EAGER project "SYNCHRONIZING DECISION-SUPPORT VIA HUMAN- AND SOCIAL-CENTERED DIGITAL TWIN INFRASTRUCTURES FOR COASTAL COMMUNITIES" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the development of digital twin...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $217,772 Project Grant through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Alabama, effective July 1, 2024. This 3-year research project aims to investigate how individuals process information and make decisions when faced with prospects characterized by multiple layers of risk and/or ambiguity, such as those related to climate change or public health emergencies. The project will outline a series of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $243,500 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research on heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations from July 2021 through June 2024. The research aims to contribute to understanding how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. As the awardee, Princeton University will oversee the research...
This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at Texas A&M University examining decision-making around evolving coastal flood risks. The grantee will develop an integrated framework combining risk modeling, economic sorting models, and social behavior models to understand how residential location choices are impacted by changing flood conditions and flood control infrastructure investments. This will quantify changes in...
This $301,719 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research to develop flexible regression methods that can better measure the economic impacts of climate change. The research will focus on improving statistical techniques to accurately capture the effects of extreme temperature exposure on economic outcomes, which is critical for informing effective climate policy. The work will include...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,590 Project Grant to Louisiana State University (LSU) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HNDS-I: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR HUMAN DYNAMICS AND RESILIENCE RESEARCH," will fund the development of a national cyberinfrastructure to support and advance human dynamics and disaster resilience research. Key products and services to be delivered include:...
This $114,675 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a 3-year collaborative research study on the temporal dynamics of household flood adjustment behaviors. The research team at the University of North Texas will employ a longitudinal survey design to understand the mechanisms that lead individuals to adopt flood hazard adjustment behaviors over time. The study will introduce an experimental intervention...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $167,154 project grant to Texas A&M University from June 2021 through May 2023. The grant supports the "Integrative International Interventions: Militant Violence and Human Security in Contemporary Conflicts" project under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of basic research and education in social, behavioral...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $503,918 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to Princeton University for the period of April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2023. The grant supports collaborative research among Princeton University, Rutgers University, and Texas A&M University to study responses to complex disruptive events from a cognitive and socio-political context.
Under the award, the researchers will conduct household surveys, qualitative studies, and analyses of climate and administrative data to evaluate psychological, social, and political factors influencing decision-making regarding disruptive events. Texas A&M University will design survey and interview questions, assist with data cleaning and analysis, and help coordinate data collection across the collaborating institutions. All researchers will work to integrate social media analysis and other aspects into the project. The grant aims to advance understanding of how cognition functions within social and political systems during disruptive events.