The National Science Foundation awarded Georgetown University a $140,083 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research titled "The Political Wealth of Nations" from June 2021 through May 2024. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social sciences, the NSF program aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through understanding resources invested in science. Georgetown University will...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $215,304 Project Grant to The Washington University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The two-year grant will fund collaborative research on electoral systems as incentive structures for interparty and intraparty politics. The research is intended to contribute to scientific understanding of how electoral rules shape political competition and strategy within and between political parties. The grant will support...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences has awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the College of William & Mary under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports the continued development of the GEOBoundaries project, which provides free, transparent, and openly licensed geographic information on geopolitical boundaries worldwide. Innovations under this award include automating data processing, such as...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $450,000 to the University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants to study the link between partisanship and inventive activity. The project will develop new data linking voter registration records with individual patent inventors and academic researchers to comprehensively describe...
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...
The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded a $195,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2021 to complete work by March 31, 2024. The grant supports the collaborative research project "Honest and Robust Inference with High Dimensional Data" under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to promote basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences. The grant funding will allow...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,284 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as University of Michigan) to conduct a collaborative research study titled "HNDS-R: Stepping Out of Flatland: Complex Networks, Topological Data Analysis, and the Progress of Science." The 3-year project, beginning September 1, 2023, will use...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $200,000 to George Washington University will fund a research project exploring the dynamics between political migration and democracy. The research will employ a mixed-methods approach, including online surveys of at least 4,000 political migrants, 100 in-depth interviews, and focus groups, to investigate how political emigrants interact with the political landscapes of their...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This $183,720 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a collaborative research project at Pennsylvania State University to track citizens' attitudes toward a judicial reform effort involving the direct election of judges. The project aims to disentangle theories about the determinants of public support for judicial institutions, evaluate how the electoral connection affects citizens' legal attitudes...