This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 is funding a research project at the University of Chicago to investigate the role of networks in influencing the outcomes of interventions across various domains, such as education, marketing, and tax decisions. The project will focus on developing new randomized experimental methods and open-source software to enable robust inference of network effects and quantify...
This two-year, $217,923 National Science Foundation project grant funds collaborative research on human networks, sustainable development, and lived experience in a nonindustrial society. Led by researchers from multiple universities and tribal communities, the grantees will investigate relationships between spatial patterns of social interaction and quality of life over 800 years in the Southwestern United States. They will combine existing demographic, socioeconomic, health, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 5-year, $453,914 CAREER grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports a research project titled "GOING BEYOND THE DYAD: A NETWORK THEORY FOR UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES OF FRIENDSHIP." The project aims to identify the various challenges people face in realizing and maintaining friendships, as well as generate insights into...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Trustees of Boston University a $449,985 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant period is from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 and will support the development of new coevolving latent space network with attractors models to study social dynamics. Specifically, the awardee will develop modeling and statistical inference methodologies for this new class of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $775,089 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support research to develop innovative methods for collecting social network data inexpensively at scale. Researchers will use the new Aggregate Relational Data method to build two large datasets mapping socioeconomic relationships among vulnerable populations within local communities and across...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $400,000 will develop new techniques for the analysis of social network data. The research will combine machine learning innovations with statistical theory to advance exploratory, comparative, and semiparametric network analysis methods. The project aims to build on existing approaches and create new kernel-based techniques for social network regression and modeling. Broader...
New York University was awarded a $225,254 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Network Formation and Bargaining with Exclusionary Commitments." The three-year grant beginning July 15, 2021 will support research examining how networks form when members can make commitments to exclude outsiders from future cooperation. Relevant to the program's goals of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $156,866 Project Grant to the University of Chicago under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The grant will fund research developing new statistical and econometric methods for analyzing social network data. Specifically, the project aims to build methodology for incorporating high-dimensional and incomplete network data into empirical models. Researchers will create a nonparametric regression framework for networks and investigate...
This $318,903 Career award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds research by Northwestern University on the economic theory of networks. The award supports four research projects that develop new models and measures of network structure related to: 1) how individuals learn from social contacts, 2) strategic pricing decisions by firms in supply chain networks, 3) network coordination and polarization, and 4) network...
This $595,183 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project that examines the factors influencing the spread and persistence of dynamic social norms. The project investigates attributes like trend longevity, universality, shared cause, and sufficiency that can encourage individuals to adopt emerging social behaviors and beliefs, particularly in the context of addressing societal...