This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $395,000 to the University of Florida to conduct a first-of-its-kind study on the role of workplaces in accelerating individual income inequality in the United States from 1996 to 2021. The research leverages confidential administrative data to theoretically examine and empirically test hypotheses about how structural changes within organizations, occupations,...
The National Science Foundation awarded Georgetown University a $140,083 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research titled "The Political Wealth of Nations" from June 2021 through May 2024. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social sciences, the NSF program aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through understanding resources invested in science. Georgetown University will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $517,342 funds the construction of an open access database containing information on earnings inequality, income volatility, economic mobility, and income dynamics for a large number of countries over time. The database will leverage administrative microdata records to provide longitudinal data that allows for detailed analysis of heterogeneity in individual and household...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $175,291 project grant to Columbia University on July 15, 2021 to study "INEQUALITY AND WELFARE IN A LOW RATE ENVIRONMENT." The grant completion date is June 30, 2024. The funding supports research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic research and education in these fields and monitor science investment resources. Specifically,...
The University of Wyoming will examine the long-term development of inequality under a $145,164 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The five-year grant will support research from September 2021 to August 2026 to contribute to understanding how basic social and economic factors shape inequality over time. The NSF's program aims to strengthen scientific knowledge in these fields and monitor resources invested...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 two-year Project Grant to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the impact of urbanization on income inequality across U.S. cities. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. The fellowship, beginning September 1, 2022 and ending August 31, 2024, will be conducted at Winter Hill, Massachusetts...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to understand how socioeconomic heterogeneity within the U.S. scientific workforce impacts scientific discovery and innovation. The project aims to (i) create a unique individual-level dataset linking researcher socioeconomic backgrounds to scholarly topics, (ii) make an anonymized version of this dataset publicly available, (iii)...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,096 project grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the ENDURE research project examining the impact of restrictive COVID-19 pandemic response policies on economic, political, and social inequalities across 12 countries. The project employs comparative analyses to study how varying degrees of lockdown and demobilization policies in...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $199,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on May 1, 2022 to complete the project by April 30, 2025. The grant will fund research exploring the role of adaptive capacity on democratic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the university will conduct case studies in Atlanta, GA, Montreal, Canada, Manchester, UK, and Warsaw,...
This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA #47.075) will support socioecological research and training on the emergence of inequality. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Simon Brewer at the University of Utah, the postdoctoral fellow will investigate environmental and social interactions driving material inequality in the Intermountain West. Quantitative modeling will evaluate the relative influences of...