This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, titled "Coping with Compounding Risk and Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study of Cascading Collective Stress in a Probability-Based-US Sample," is being awarded to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for $1,018,693.00. The project commenced on June 15, 2023 and will run until May 31, 2026. The primary objectives of this study are to: (1) examine how exposure to compounding...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $174,657 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) on May 1, 2022 for completion by April 30, 2023. The grant funds a study to assess psychological reactions to the ongoing war in Ukraine among a nationally representative sample of over 6,500 Americans previously surveyed since March 2020 regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The study will examine how factors...
This National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, with a total funding amount of $307,969.00 and an award date of August 1, 2023, supports a research project examining the longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on precarious workers, such as gig workers, freelancers, and retail/fast food employees. The project, which is the fourth stage of a mixed-methods panel study, will utilize interviews and surveys with nearly 200 participants to understand how...
The University of California Irvine received a $115,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research titled "The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks" from March 1, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The research will contribute new high frequency data on local economic shocks to...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $199,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on May 1, 2022 to complete the project by April 30, 2025. The grant will fund research exploring the role of adaptive capacity on democratic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the university will conduct case studies in Atlanta, GA, Montreal, Canada, Manchester, UK, and Warsaw,...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $174,032 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on January 15, 2021 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: The Intergenerational Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic." The award period runs through December 31, 2022. The funding supports the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA #47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,096 project grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the ENDURE research project examining the impact of restrictive COVID-19 pandemic response policies on economic, political, and social inequalities across 12 countries. The project employs comparative analyses to study how varying degrees of lockdown and demobilization policies in...
This Project Grant award of $549,983 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on public health leadership, preparedness, and governance during crises. The project analyzes a case where public officials experienced uneven backlash, such as harassment and threats, in response to COVID-19 policies. It aims to identify the conditions, nature, and impacts of this backlash, as well as how officials responded. The...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $169,747 Project Grant to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on parenting, domestic labor division, and well-being. This award falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields. Through longitudinal survey data collection spanning March 2020 through September...
The University of California Irvine received a $349,551 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate to support exploratory and confirmatory neurocognitive modeling with latent variables from June 2021 through May 2024. The grant funds research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and...