This $562,092 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) funds research and data infrastructure development to support analysis of historical settlement and population growth patterns in the United States. The University of Colorado, Boulder will collaborate with the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota to develop gridded time series data on census tract-level variables related to...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $293,695 project grant to Stanford University on August 15, 2021 for the project "GENEALOGICAL ANCESTORS, ADMIXTURE, AND POPULATION HISTORY." The project will be completed by July 31, 2024. The grant is being used to fund research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $245,006 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, doing business as the University of Nebraska, to conduct research on how families with socially marginalized members navigate intergenerational differences on controversial social and political issues. The 3-year project will involve qualitative interviews...
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 (NSF) awarded a $274,899 Project Grant to Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The 3-year grant funds qualitative research examining how families with socially marginalized members navigate intergenerational differences in attitudes on controversial social and political issues. The project involves collecting interview data from 90 individuals in 30 family systems to...
The University of Rochester received a $483,051 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on April 1, 2021 to support the project "CAREER: KINSHIP, COMMUNITY, AND ALTERNATIVE NETWORKS OF CARE IN CONTEXTS OF PRECARITY" through March 31, 2026. The project aims to study kinship, community, and alternative care networks in contexts of economic precarity. It is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences...
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 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will develop new techniques for the analysis of social network data. The $400,000 award, with a performance period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, will be performed by the University of California, Irvine. The research aims to advance methodology for exploratory, comparative, and semi-parametric network analysis by combining innovations in machine learning...
This National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award of $1,013,705 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota will enhance and expand the IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) over a five-year period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028. This project will increase the spatial and temporal coverage of NHGIS, a comprehensive source of geographic data on American people and places from 1790 to the present, by incorporating 1970...