This two-year, $103,735 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research into the effects of lynchings on the educational outcomes of children in Mississippi from 1927 to 1957. Mississippi State University, in collaboration with other researchers, will digitize historical education records from the Mississippi Department of Education containing school enrollment and attendance data for every child in the state. These records will be linked to county-level lynching data to estimate...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to construct a large individual-level dataset of U.S. college students over the past century. The investigators will digitize historical college rosters from the early 1900s to 1950s and link this data to U.S. population censuses to observe students' socioeconomic backgrounds and long-term adult...
This $122,717 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project investigating the effects of the Civil Rights Movement on the representation of African Americans in medical education and medical research. The researchers will build a novel dataset combining historical records on medical school admissions, physician directories, scientific publications, population health outcomes, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $375,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from March 2021 through February 2024 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks." The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research...
This $193,038 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at Colorado State University to develop flexible Bayesian record linkage models. The goal is to enable more accurate linking of multiple data sets without unique identifiers, which is crucial for leveraging diverse data sources to address complex problems. The research will focus on addressing key limitations in current record...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $262,687 project grant to the University of South Florida to conduct collaborative research titled "How Do Histories of Violence Shape Affect and Experience?" from August 2021 through July 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields to strengthen science and monitor resources invested in science. Under the award, the University of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded $283,420 to Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HOW DO HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE SHAPE AFFECT AND EXPERIENCE?" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. This Project Grant will support research examining how experiences with violence and trauma shape emotional...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science provides $149,608 to fund a collaborative research project examining the effects of academic mobility on individual professors' research activity and institutional human capital at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The funding period is from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The award is being administered through the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Social,...
The National Science Foundation awarded $122,710 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Stanford University from June 2022 to July 2023. The project aims to increase diversity in the linguistic sciences through an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site examining the role of language in social mobility. Undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions will conduct...
This $353,568 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds a research project to study the history of population displacement across American towns from 1850 to 1940. The project will leverage machine learning and historical newspaper records to create a comprehensive database of these displacements, which will then be merged with individual census data. The expanded dataset will enable analysis of the...