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 $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,...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $140,482 to support research to develop a new methodology for distinguishing between research findings that can be generalized across populations, places, and time, and those that cannot be generalized. The research aims to address a fundamental challenge in empirical research by introducing a rigorous approach to identify the environmental,...
This $212,203 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the President and Fellows of Harvard College to support research on resource rational contractualism as a foundation for moral judgment and decision-making. The award will fund experiments to understand how ordinary people imagine bargains between interested parties and regard the imagined outcome as the most morally appropriate...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $604,296 Project Grant to President and Fellows of Harvard College from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science investments. Under the grant, Harvard will conduct research on social structure learning to contribute to the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $473,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) to develop a unified framework for studying optimal multi-dimensional taxation policies. The research seeks to characterize the optimal design of tax, transfer, and social insurance programs that account for complex, multifaceted determinants of household tax liabilities. Key...
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 $362,577 to Columbia University for research on attacking networks of tax evasion. The research will combine new economic theory and innovative methodologies to provide insights into tax evasion by firms and the strength of enforcement spillovers through production networks. In partnership with tax...
This Project Grant award of $194,675 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to develop new econometric and statistical methods that allow researchers to draw valid conclusions from complex data in a variety of social, behavioral, and medical science settings. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a generally applicable reparameterization procedure for informative...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research by the University of Colorado to assess the accountability of tax preparation software systems. The project aims to: 1) Explicate metamorphic relations from U.S. tax law requirements to enable automated testing of software compliance and accuracy, 2) Develop artifacts for formally verifying tax software's adherence to tax law,...
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...