This $724,347 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports a two-year research collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras. The project aims to strengthen social science infrastructure and provide high-quality representative data on public opinion, political behavior, and the operations of political institutions in Puerto Rico. Key activities...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Vanderbilt University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award will support research exploring civic participation and sustainable democracy in the Northwestern United States through 2024. Specifically, the grant will fund interviews, participant observation, and archival analysis of community-based social movements over the past 40 years across rural, urban and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Regents of the University of Michigan to support U.S. participation in the 8th wave of the World Values Survey (WVS). This survey, initiated in 1981 with substantial U.S. leadership, collects data on mass values and attitudes from over 90 countries, enabling cross-national analyses of the impact of economic and technological change on human...
This $899,815 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the 2024 Cooperative Election Study (CES). The CES is a collaborative research effort involving over 50 university teams across the United States that designs and fields a large, nationally representative survey of at least 50,000 American adults. The survey data collected will measure demographics, opinions, attitudes, and voting behavior in...
This National Science Foundation award of $379,348 provides funding from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Notre Dame du Lac. The award will support research assessing the impact of increased human capital on labor market outcomes and political attitudes in developing countries. The principal investigator will leverage census and other individual-level data, as well as policy variation from free...
This Project Grant award of $206,574.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on the legal characteristics and governance of international organizations. The principal investigator at the American Bar Foundation will conduct a comprehensive analysis of the charters and legal documents that establish these organizations, identifying key features such as voting rules, budgeting processes, immunities, and...
This $1,600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will expand and enhance the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), the world's largest population database. The project will: Obtain and preserve census and household survey data from 157 countries, focusing on the most recent census rounds. Clean, process, and consistently code the collected data. Develop comprehensive documentation to guide...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $115,272 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the effects of democratic governance on public service provision, long-term economic growth, and citizen well-being. The project will digitize a unique historical dataset on democratic transitions in local governments and use quasi-random variation in elected versus appointed...
This $474,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research at Duke University to evaluate the impacts of declining public R&D investment and the pivot away from defense innovation in the U.S. The research aims to (i) examine the effects of federally-funded R&D on the development of complex, science-based "deep tech" innovations, and (ii) assess the impacts of major cuts to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences awarded a $186,668 Project Grant titled "Collaborative Research: The Architecture of Accountability in 21st Century Latin America" to the University of Washington. The three-year grant, effective September 1, 2023, supports research examining accountability institutions and the rule of law in 18 Latin American countries since 2000. The project aims to advance understanding of the functioning and...