This $334,924 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program investigates how the division of household labor in families impacts children's cognitive development and future expectations for work and family life. The project uses behavioral and observational data from parents and children, including experimental and survey approaches, to test potential causes of children's career and family life aspirations. This...
Vanderbilt University was awarded a $187,215 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the project "Prehistoric Communities of Practice" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2024. This funding will support research examining how prehistoric communities shared and transmitted knowledge through everyday social learning and practice. The grant aims to advance understanding of how communities of shared practice...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $498,314 to The Johns Hopkins University for research titled "Understanding Habit Formation in Complex Tasks." The goal of the research is to develop systematic approaches to identify which aspects of behavior are habitual when learning complex skills that involve multiple component...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under CFDA Program 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, will fund a research project examining the relationship between caregiver-child physical proximity and attachment security. The $237,191 award to Vanderbilt University will support a 3-year study utilizing wearable devices called "TotTags" to measure second-by-second physical proximity patterns between children...
This $279,436 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into early life influences on later life health outcomes through Vanderbilt University from April 2022 through March 2025. The research will investigate how early life environments impact adult health among indigenous Malaysians experiencing rapid lifestyle changes. Vanderbilt will characterize participants' early and current environments, physiological status, and test theories of how early life effects evolve using...
This $349,579 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a validated instrument to measure family science habitus and science capital. Awarded on September 15, 2022 to Clemson University under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), this three-year project will create a tool to capture broader notions of how families support children's interest, engagement and aspirations in science. Specifically, the principal investigator will build their research capacity in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $310,545 from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028 to Texas A&M University to investigate how the division of household labor in families impacts children's social development and future expectations for work and family life. The project will use behavioral and observational data from parents and children, including experimental and survey approaches, to...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $160,253 supports research on "Parenting, Housework, Well-Being, and the COVID-19 Pandemic" being conducted by Ball State University from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025. The research will assess changes in parents' divisions of domestic labor, factors driving these changes, effects on mothers' labor force participation, and impacts on parents' well-being and relationship quality using longitudinal survey data from approximately...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $138,337 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to study the temporal structure of infants' everyday behaviors, including language and play interactions in the home environment. The project aims to investigate how the temporal patterns of infant vocalizations, maternal speech, and infant object play relate to the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to construct a large individual-level dataset of U.S. college students over the past century. The investigators will digitize historical college rosters from the early 1900s to 1950s and link this data to U.S. population censuses to observe students' socioeconomic backgrounds and long-term adult...