This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science, under CFDA program 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, provides $527,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER), a private non-profit research organization, to conduct research examining the consequences and determinants of trade protection policies. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year award include: 1) developing new...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $511,799 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to create a new open-access panel database of US manufacturing establishments from historical Census administrative records. The primary objectives are to digitize handwritten Census manuscript pages, link manufacturing establishment data across decades, and make the comprehensive database freely...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $473,000 in funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to conduct research on the aggregate and distributional implications of de minimis trade policies and direct international shipments to consumers. The research aims to develop a quantitative trade framework that models consumer heterogeneity in preferences and firm heterogeneity in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $158,184 to New York University (NYU) for a project titled "Collaborative Research: Ownership and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Census of Manufactures". The project aims to compile a new open-access panel database of U.S. manufacturing establishments from existing Census administrative records, enabling further research into the historical development...
This $285,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research to develop new statistical methods to guide economic and public policy decisions in rapidly changing environments. The research aims to build on recent advances in statistical decision theory, causal inference, and machine learning to create econometric models that can effectively inform evidence-based policymaking while...
This $141,544 National Science Foundation project grant will support the National Bureau of Economic Research to build new datasets and conduct research examining the impact of political control on financial regulation and institutions during the Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1930s. Specifically, the awardee will create a dataset on business and bank foundation and failure rates by state and quarter as well as aggregate liabilities and assets. A second dataset will track the structure of...
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...
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 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the creation of new datasets and research examining the impact of political control on financial institutions and the economy during the Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1930s. The $158,438 award made on September 1, 2022 to California State University, Los Angeles will support building a dataset on business and bank foundation and failure rates by state and...
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 demographic displacements across American towns from 1850 to 1940. The project will leverage machine learning technology to create a comprehensive database of these displacements from historical newspaper records, and then merge this data with individual census records to provide a detailed database of...