This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science provides $478,846 to support research on the macroeconomic implications of imperfectly competitive labor markets. The award will fund a collaborative research project led by the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. to develop quantitative frameworks analyzing how minimum wage policies, antitrust policies, and tax policies can improve outcomes in labor markets with wage setting power. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $395,000 to the University of Florida to conduct a first-of-its-kind study on the role of workplaces in accelerating individual income inequality in the United States from 1996 to 2021. The research leverages confidential administrative data to theoretically examine and empirically test hypotheses about how structural changes within organizations, occupations,...
This $293,490 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA# 47.075). The grant supports a multi-year research project conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER), a non-profit research organization. The project aims to advance the understanding of economic development, social mobility, and social conflict. Key components include: Developing new...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $600,000 in funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) for research in macroeconomics. The project combines a large-scale consumer survey with information treatments and external data to investigate four key research questions: 1) the mechanisms underlying wage-price spirals, 2) how economic uncertainty affects household spending...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $183,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as NBER, for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "Technology, Automation and Inequality" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to understand how socioeconomic heterogeneity within the U.S. scientific workforce impacts scientific discovery and innovation. The project aims to (i) create a unique individual-level dataset linking researcher socioeconomic backgrounds to scholarly topics, (ii) make an anonymized version of this dataset publicly available, (iii)...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, received a $143,007 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds a research project from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2026 to examine whether heterogeneity in firms' provision of non-wage amenities dampens or magnifies total labor compensation...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $473,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). NBER will use this funding to research how large-scale economic development programs or "big pushes" can distort markets and impact long-term growth. The grant supports NBER's work analyzing distortions caused by subsidies and other interventions, and how...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $517,342 funds the construction of an open access database containing information on earnings inequality, income volatility, economic mobility, and income dynamics for a large number of countries over time. The database will leverage administrative microdata records to provide longitudinal data that allows for detailed analysis of heterogeneity in individual and household...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will fund a $428,460 research program at the University of Chicago to develop improved econometric methods for understanding earnings heterogeneity in matched employer-employee data and intergenerational mobility. The research program consists of three projects: 1) re-examining the role of firm heterogeneity, worker heterogeneity, worker...