The University of California, San Diego will receive $400,000 from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support the project "Ethical and Responsible Research in the Design of Sociotechnical Systems," which aims to contribute to basic research and education in the social, behavioral and...
The University of California, San Diego will use a $404,640 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to research how poverty falls under the agency's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The two-year grant running from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023 will support the university's research into contributing to scientific strength and welfare through promoting basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences, as well as monitoring and...
The National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program has awarded the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) a $319,541 project grant for "Collaborative Research: Causal Structures: Experiments and Machine Learning." This 3-year research project aims to understand how economic agents develop subjective causal models and narratives to interpret information and make decisions. The researchers will conduct a series of experiments to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $199,718 project grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside for research related to "PROCESSES INFLUENCING STABILIZATION IN THE FORMATION OF STATES." The grant was awarded on July 1, 2022 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) and will support research through June 30, 2025. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to...
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) was awarded a $133,459 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075). The 4-year grant will support a research project to study the patterns of connection and isolation among early human populations, and how these factors may have contributed to the evolution of humans' adaptive capabilities. The project will examine...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $399,975 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) funds research to identify "bright spots" of improving ecological conditions and human resilience, as well as "hot spots" of land degradation and human vulnerability. The project integrates household surveys, community-level interviews, and drone-derived imagery to understand...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $269,808 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Hawaii to conduct archaeological research on the development of social complexity in ancient societies. The project aims to better understand how variation in household interactions, activities, social roles, and relationships within and between communities led to the emergence of regionally-integrated socially complex societies....
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $108,757, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to San Diego State University Foundation. The award, effective August 15, 2024 through July 31, 2026, supports a collaborative research project that investigates changes in prehistoric human foraging, mobility patterns, and population dynamics in response to environmental change during the later Pleistocene. The research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award provides $241,331 to Duke University to conduct research on the unintended consequences of policies that aim to increase female economic empowerment. Specifically, the research project will study the effects of a new system of digitized and centralized land records on female land inheritance, human capital investments, and marriage outcomes in an agricultural region. The researchers...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $120,757 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The three-year award beginning in May 2021 will support research titled "Understanding the Cultural and Psychological Roots of Inequality Maintenance: Omissions of Native Americans." The University of California, Berkeley will conduct collaborative research to contribute insights on how and why inequalities are...