Westat, Inc. was awarded a $979,923 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to support the development of large-scale survey methods. The two-year award, issued on September 1, 2021, will fund work to take surveys into the future through advancing research and techniques. As the CFDA description notes a focus on basic research and education in the social sciences, it can be inferred this project aims to...
Westat, Inc. was awarded a $258,832 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period November 1, 2022 through March 31, 2024. The grant funds a research project to measure the impact and diffusion of open source software innovation through analysis of contributor and project networks. Specifically, the grantee will characterize the open source software ecosystem using publicly available data on projects,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded William Paterson University of New Jersey a $292,640 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant will support collaborative research examining socio-economic patterns, public perceptions, and climate vulnerabilities of water resources and quality. In line with the program's goals of strengthening basic research in the social, behavioral and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program provides $284,994 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences from August 2021 through July 2024. The grant funds research on developing partially ordered item response modeling for analyzing longitudinal and multivariate data. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) aims to strengthen basic scientific research and education in these fields through supporting...
This Project Grant award of $194,675 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to develop new econometric and statistical methods that allow researchers to draw valid conclusions from complex data in a variety of social, behavioral, and medical science settings. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a generally applicable reparameterization procedure for informative...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to understand how socioeconomic heterogeneity within the U.S. scientific workforce impacts scientific discovery and innovation. The project aims to (i) create a unique individual-level dataset linking researcher socioeconomic backgrounds to scholarly topics, (ii) make an anonymized version of this dataset publicly available, (iii)...
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...
This $276,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to deepen understanding of how national scientific systems are interconnected with global economic and political dynamics, providing insights on the effects of scientific cooperation across countries...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $187,180 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research examining the relative roles of ecology, evolution, and experience in solving novel problems under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $415,223 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. for work under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports research from February 2021 through August 2022 examining inequity aversion, individual decision making, and the emergence of collective behavior. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of...