The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $604,296 Project Grant to President and Fellows of Harvard College from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science investments. Under the grant, Harvard will conduct research on social structure learning to contribute to the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science provides $393,434 to President And Fellows Of Harvard College from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The funding supports research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic scientific knowledge in these fields and monitor resources invested in science. Specifically, the award finances a study on urbanization and economic growth to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $400,000 project grant to President And Fellows Of Harvard College for work titled "MEASURING AND REDUCING ALGORITHMIC DISCRIMINATION WITH QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DATA." The three-year grant, awarded September 1, 2021 and set to be completed by August 31, 2024, will support research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to contribute to scientific...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant for $283,999 awarded to President and Fellows of Harvard College will fund collaborative research on the economics of port infrastructure and its role in international trade. The project seeks to provide insights into the returns on investments in transportation infrastructure, how funding should be coordinated, and the drivers of port performance and disruptions. The researchers will construct a...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $114,760 to President and Fellows of Harvard College from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025 for the collaborative research project "HNDS-I: A Global Seafood Trade Network Database for Sustainable Food Systems, Human Health, and Nutrition Security." The funding supports work under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $128,247 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will support research on "U.S. Institutions After COVID-19: Trust, Accountability, and Public Perceptions" from December 2021 through November 2023. As the prime awardee, Harvard University will examine how the pandemic has impacted trust and accountability in major U.S. institutions, and shape public...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to President And Fellows Of Harvard College from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under this award, Harvard researchers will develop algorithms and data structures to enhance predictive capabilities....
President And Fellows of Harvard College was awarded a $332,169 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct the State Health, Institutions, and Politics Survey from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025. The project will provide researchers access to large-scale, state-by-state survey data collected at multiple points in time to explore topics including public attitudes, trust in institutions, well-being, and...
The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $1 million project grant to the President and Fellows of Harvard College on September 1, 2021 through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The five-year project grant will support research advancing the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals of strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise and increasing knowledge of major problems. Specifically, funding will...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $362,153 to Harvard University to conduct research evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of outsourcing property tax re-assessments to private firms. The award will fund a large-scale, two-phase randomized control trial to study the selection of firms into fixed-fee versus performance-based contracts, and to assess the impact on outcomes such as tax...