Northeastern University was awarded a $194,601 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct the State Health, Institutions, and Politics Survey from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025. Under this award, Northeastern University will provide access to large-scale, state-level survey data collected at multiple points in time on topics such as public attitudes toward state and federal policies, trust in institutions,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $128,247 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will support research on "U.S. Institutions After COVID-19: Trust, Accountability, and Public Perceptions" from December 2021 through November 2023. As the prime awardee, Harvard University will examine how the pandemic has impacted trust and accountability in major U.S. institutions, and shape public...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science provides $393,434 to President And Fellows Of Harvard College from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The funding supports research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic scientific knowledge in these fields and monitor resources invested in science. Specifically, the award finances a study on urbanization and economic growth to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $140,482 to fund research aimed at developing a new methodology to distinguish between research findings that can be generalized across populations, places, and time, versus those that are context-specific. The research seeks to address a fundamental challenge in empirical research by creating an improved approach to detect the generalizability of...
This $462,400 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award to the President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University) aims to improve the design and implementation of matching mechanisms for various applications, such as school choice programs and physician residency assignments. The research objectives are to: 1) enhance empirical understanding of how diverse populations comprehend and interact with these mechanisms,...
Rutgers, The State University received a $288,712 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct the State Health, Institutions, and Politics Survey (SHIPS) from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2025. SHIPS will provide researchers access to large-scale, state-level survey data collected at multiple points in time on topics such as public attitudes toward state and federal policies, trust in...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $114,760 to President and Fellows of Harvard College from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025 for the collaborative research project "HNDS-I: A Global Seafood Trade Network Database for Sustainable Food Systems, Human Health, and Nutrition Security." The funding supports work under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to President And Fellows Of Harvard College from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under this award, Harvard researchers will develop algorithms and data structures to enhance predictive capabilities....
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $400,000 project grant to President And Fellows Of Harvard College for work titled "MEASURING AND REDUCING ALGORITHMIC DISCRIMINATION WITH QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DATA." The three-year grant, awarded September 1, 2021 and set to be completed by August 31, 2024, will support research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to contribute to scientific...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $362,153 to Harvard University to conduct research evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of outsourcing property tax re-assessments to private firms. The award will fund a large-scale, two-phase randomized control trial to study the selection of firms into fixed-fee versus performance-based contracts, and to assess the impact on outcomes such as tax...