The National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. received a $195,660 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). Through this award, the National Bureau of Economic Research will develop panel data methods to estimate the effects of price and tax rate changes on economic outcomes and welfare. Specifically, the organization will use big data techniques to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $461,469 to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) to conduct research on inflation measurement and welfare analysis. The key objectives are to: Develop new methodologies for measuring cost of living and inflation that account for variation in household preferences. Propose novel measures of well-being that incorporate future expectations....
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $600,000 in funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) for research in macroeconomics. The project combines a large-scale consumer survey with information treatments and external data to investigate four key research questions: 1) the mechanisms underlying wage-price spirals, 2) how economic uncertainty affects household spending...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $473,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). NBER will use this funding to research how large-scale economic development programs or "big pushes" can distort markets and impact long-term growth. The grant supports NBER's work analyzing distortions caused by subsidies and other interventions, and how...
This Project Grant award, totaling $701,218, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The award will fund a research project that aims to study the interactions among major government transfer programs, including SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, and CHIP. The researchers will investigate two key aspects: how to best administer these programs to improve targeting, and the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $314,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as NBER, for their DYNAMIC STRATEGIC CORPORATE FINANCE project. The three-year project from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 is funded through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science has awarded a $217,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER), a non-profit research organization, to conduct three research projects evaluating macroeconomic stabilization policy. The first project provides guidance to empirical macroeconomists on estimating the causal effects of policy interventions. The second project develops methods to predict how the U.S. economy would evolve...
This NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $572,000 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will fund research to develop advanced computational methods for solving heterogeneous-agent macroeconomic models. The research will focus on expanding the capabilities of sequence-space methods to enable the analysis of models with diverse types of heterogeneity, such as location choice and firm-level differences. Key deliverables include new...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $150,000 in funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for a research project titled "UNDERSTANDING GEOECOCONOMIC FACTORS FOR ACHIEVING GEOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES". The project consists of five research components that investigate how countries leverage their international economic relationships to pursue geopolitical...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $282,000 project grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber for the period of February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the 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 this award, Nber will conduct research on Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security...