This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) provides $186,904 to Duke University from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The grant supports research to develop quantitative frameworks analyzing the macroeconomic implications of imperfect competition in labor markets. Researchers will build on existing oligopsony models incorporating heterogeneous workers...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $600,000 in funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) for research in macroeconomics. The project combines a large-scale consumer survey with information treatments and external data to investigate four key research questions: 1) the mechanisms underlying wage-price spirals, 2) how economic uncertainty affects household spending...
This NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $572,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will fund research to develop advanced computational methods for solving heterogeneous-agent macroeconomic models. The research will focus on expanding the capabilities of sequence-space methods to enable the analysis of models with diverse types of heterogeneity, such as location choice and firm-level differences. Key deliverables include new...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science has awarded a $217,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER), a non-profit research organization, to conduct three research projects evaluating macroeconomic stabilization policy. The first project provides guidance to empirical macroeconomists on estimating the causal effects of policy interventions. The second project develops methods to predict how the U.S. economy would evolve...
This $196,850 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds a collaborative research project that investigates factors contributing to regional and sectoral variation in labor organizing as employment conditions have changed in recent decades. The research uses a mixed methodology of quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and on-site...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science, under CFDA program 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, provides $527,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER), a private non-profit research organization, to conduct research examining the consequences and determinants of trade protection policies. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year award include: 1) developing new...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $107,388 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to develop a framework for analyzing the impacts of local economic shocks on urban areas. The project will assemble fine-grained data on new business openings, commuting patterns, and land prices to evaluate predictions of quantitative spatial economic models. The research aims to improve these...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $375,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from March 2021 through February 2024 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks." The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $461,469 to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) to conduct research on inflation measurement and welfare analysis. The key objectives are to: Develop new methodologies for measuring cost of living and inflation that account for variation in household preferences. Propose novel measures of well-being that incorporate future expectations....
This $285,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research to develop new statistical methods to guide economic and public policy decisions in rapidly changing environments. The research aims to build on recent advances in statistical decision theory, causal inference, and machine learning to create econometric models that can effectively inform evidence-based policymaking while...