The National Science Foundation awarded a $349,914 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. This grant will support a comprehensive research project to examine how the social organization of caregiving responsibilities shapes economic inequalities in society. The project will analyze paid and unpaid care work penalties and their consequences, as...
This National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, with a total funding amount of $307,969.00 and an award date of August 1, 2023, supports a research project examining the longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on precarious workers, such as gig workers, freelancers, and retail/fast food employees. The project, which is the fourth stage of a mixed-methods panel study, will utilize interviews and surveys with nearly 200 participants to understand how...
This $198,124 National Science Foundation project grant funds research on economic inequalities across high-income countries. Led by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, the award supports a network of 17 research groups from Europe and North America studying drivers of inequality differences before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project examines labor market, education, tax, and welfare policies' influence on inequalities across countries and over individuals' lifetimes. A...
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...
This $199,552 National Science Foundation project grant supports research on forest citizenship and disaster resilience in the Brazilian Amazon. Led by researchers at the University of Colorado, the three-year project will study how forest-dependent indigenous communities engaged in citizenship to influence institutions and policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers will quantify existing data on mechanisms that reduced vulnerability in the past and collect new qualitative data through...
This $366,181 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and data collection activities at Penn State University from July 2022 to June 2024 under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grantee will collect extensive data on U.S. state policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyze the adoption and diffusion of pandemic policies, and track online discussions by state officials. This includes gathering information on hundreds of...
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...
This $276,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to deepen understanding of how national scientific systems are interconnected with global economic and political dynamics, providing insights on the effects of scientific cooperation across countries...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $169,747 Project Grant to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on parenting, domestic labor division, and well-being. This award falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields. Through longitudinal survey data collection spanning March 2020 through September...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $378,235 Project Grant (CFDA #47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to The Washington University in St. Louis to conduct collaborative research on how individuals, families, and communities adapt their strategies to support culturally appropriate eldercare in response to demographic and socioeconomic changes driven by migration. The 3-year research project, which includes a subaward to Dartmouth College, will use ethnographic...