This National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award of $1,013,705 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota will enhance and expand the IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) over a five-year period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028. This project will increase the spatial and temporal coverage of NHGIS, a comprehensive source of geographic data on American people and places from 1790 to the present, by incorporating 1970...
This $562,092 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) funds research and data infrastructure development to support analysis of historical settlement and population growth patterns in the United States. The University of Colorado, Boulder will collaborate with the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota to develop gridded time series data on census tract-level variables related to...
This $1,753,908 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program enhances the ability of the Research Data Ecosystem (RDE) to improve access to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research's (ICPSR) comprehensive data archive at the University of Michigan. The project transitions ICPSR's vast repository of over 20,000 studies and 6 million variables to the modernized RDE digital platform,...
This $6,734,925 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides funding to the Regents of the University of Michigan to continue the long-running Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a cornerstone data infrastructure for social science research in the U.S., following American families over multiple generations since 1968. The award will fund the collection of a new wave of PSID data,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $500,000 to create a database from historical records on consumer expenditures linked to U.S. Census Bureau data. The database, which will be made publicly available at no cost, will allow researchers to study the evolution of living standards in the post-WWII period when the U.S. experienced income growth and decreasing inequality. The research...
This $1,427,087 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides continuing support for U.S. participation in the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) databases. These cross-national data infrastructure initiatives maintain harmonized datasets on household income, wealth, employment, and demographics from over 80 countries, enabling and fostering comparative research on socio-economic...
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 Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $999,996 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 1, 2021 to develop products and services under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the "FROM STACKS TO STATS: UNLOCKING INTERNATIONAL CENSUS DATA FROM PRINT VOLUMES" project through August 31, 2025. This project aims to digitize and analyze...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $499,999 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HNDS-I: BUILDING LONG-TERM, NATIONAL-SCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA COLLECTIONS FROM HISTORICAL MAP ARCHIVES - THE IMOLA (INTELLIGENT MAP RECOGNITION LAB) PROJECT". The project aims to develop advanced computational methods and scientific approaches to extract...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $984,495 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will fund the expansion and leveraging of a large probability panel from Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations to establish a major benchmarking survey of AANHPI adults. This project aims to address the...