This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award for $323,203 will fund a study on how U.S. legislators allocate their time and the consequences of these decisions on representation and policymaking. The project will create a new database cataloging over 200,000 scheduled daily activities of 50 former legislators from the 1970s to 2010s, supplemented by qualitative interview data. These data will be combined with existing...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $278,000 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. from August 2021 through July 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The project grant funding will support research examining the impact of state-imposed local fiscal rules on the fiscal health of city governments in the United States. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant provides $138,000 to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the development of labor scheduling standards in the United States. The fellowship recipient will conduct a comparative study of eight jurisdictions that considered fair workweek legislation between 2014 and 2021, including cases where laws were enacted and rejected. Through original interviews with policymakers 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)...
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 $196,850 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds a collaborative research project that investigates factors contributing to regional and sectoral variation in labor organizing as employment conditions have changed in recent decades. The research uses a mixed methodology of quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and on-site...
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 $350,000 to The Regents of the University of California for a research project examining city size and public service delivery. The University of California, Berkeley will document how access to and quality of basic health, education, and infrastructure services vary across cities of different sizes in...
This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research on heterogeneous agent modeling of the personal data economy. With a performance period from August 2021 through July 2023, this award will support the development of models to analyze how individual behaviors and interactions shape markets involving the exchange of personal data. As part of its mission to advance the social and economic sciences, the NSF SBE...
This Project Grant award for $170,000 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship for an early career scientist to investigate the relationship between the quantification of the penal sector and social inequality, with a focus on how communities perceive and negotiate predictive policing models. The research aims to provide empirical insights into the emergence...
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...