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...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $517,342 will fund the construction of an open-access database containing longitudinal data on earnings inequality, income volatility, economic mobility, and income dynamics for a large number of countries. The primary goal is to facilitate research on the factors driving inequality, economic mobility, and economic risk across different countries and over time. The database...
This $318,903 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on the economic theory of networks. The award, granted to Northwestern University, will develop new models and measures of network structure tailored to specific economic outcomes. The research projects include analyzing how individuals learn from social contacts, studying strategic pricing decisions in supply chain networks,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber for the Census Tree Linked Dataset project. The two-year project running from August 2021 through July 2023 aims to contribute basic research and education in the social sciences through the development of the Census Tree Linked Dataset. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $473,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). NBER will use this funding to research how large-scale economic development programs or "big pushes" can distort markets and impact long-term growth. The grant supports NBER's work analyzing distortions caused by subsidies and other interventions, and how...
This $293,490 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA# 47.075). The grant supports a multi-year research project conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER), a non-profit research organization. The project aims to advance the understanding of economic development, social mobility, and social conflict. Key components include: Developing new...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund $291,152 over three years to develop new statistical and econometric methods for analyzing social network data. Northwestern University will use the funding to build new nonparametric regression frameworks and investigate the informational content of partial network data generated through referral sampling and contingency tables. The researchers will characterize the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $282,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as NBER. The grant is part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) and will fund collaborative research on intermediaries and product selection in the municipal bond market from July 15, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The research aims to contribute to scientific understanding of how social,...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $447,116 supports research into network formation and function within and between cultural groups from 2023 to 2025. Funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grant to Trustees of Boston University will study the development of social relationships between culturally distinct populations and how individuals leverage relationships to access supportive resources. Using multilevel network models...