This $241,331 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) funds a research project at Duke University to study the unintended consequences of policies aimed at strengthening female inheritance rights. The research seeks to understand how such policy reforms impact women's education, marriage outcomes, and household resource allocation decisions. The project will leverage the staggered...
This $310,545 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on the influence of household labor distribution in families on children's social development. The project, led by Texas A&M University, investigates how family experiences relate to children's thinking about fairness and their aspirations for future work and family life. The research uses behavioral and observational data...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $349,914 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. This grant will support a comprehensive research project to examine how the social organization of caregiving responsibilities shapes economic inequalities in society. The project will analyze paid and unpaid care work penalties and their consequences, as...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $191,980 will fund research at the University of Chicago examining how displacement, particularly due to conflicts and climate change, impacts the development of social preferences and trust in children and adolescents. Through behavioral economics experiments and a randomized controlled trial, the project will evaluate fairness, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of California, San Diego a $350,998 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). Through this five-year award ending June 2028, UCSD will conduct four research projects examining how culture interacts with development policies and affects outcomes. The university will study improving accountability of local leaders, impacts of traditional property rights on land titling efforts, effects of...
This National Science Foundation award of $379,348 provides funding from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Notre Dame du Lac. The award will support research assessing the impact of increased human capital on labor market outcomes and political attitudes in developing countries. The principal investigator will leverage census and other individual-level data, as well as policy variation from free...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $130,886 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Missouri System to develop new econometric and statistical tools for identifying and estimating causal effects without relying on unrealistic assumptions. The 5-year research project, titled "HETEROGENEITY AND THE GENERAL CONTROL FUNCTION APPROACH TO ENDOGENEITY", will create alternative strategies for addressing...
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)...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award for $544,082 supports research to examine the structural barriers and facilitators for translating academic research to inform public policy. The study will elicit problem definitions and recommendations from decision-makers at public universities and research-funding philanthropies regarding how to improve the development of university-based infrastructure for research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $349,324 in funding to Yale University from April 2025 to March 2030. The grant supports a research agenda consisting of four experiments to study how market frictions along agricultural supply chains in low-income countries impede structural transformation and prevent farmers from accessing high-value export markets. The research aims to identify policies...