This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $511,799 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to create a new open-access panel database of US manufacturing establishments from historical Census administrative records. The primary objectives are to digitize handwritten Census manuscript pages, link manufacturing establishment data across decades, and make the comprehensive database freely...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber for the Census Tree Linked Dataset project. The two-year project running from August 2021 through July 2023 aims to contribute basic research and education in the social sciences through the development of the Census Tree Linked Dataset. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $517,342 will fund the construction of an open-access database containing longitudinal data on earnings inequality, income volatility, economic mobility, and income dynamics for a large number of countries. The primary goal is to facilitate research on the factors driving inequality, economic mobility, and economic risk across different countries and over time. The database...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $375,000 project grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) from March 2021 through February 2024 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks." The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $110,500 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber for collaborative research on the effects of information, mentoring and time on economic faculty at MSIS. The two-year award running from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023 will fund research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research and education...
This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a collaborative research project led by New York University (NYU) to construct a new dataset from county land-use records across 20 U.S. counties over 40 years. The dataset will include information on Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured and Veteran's Administration (VA)-guaranteed mortgages, which will be made publicly available to...
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 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $500,000 over 2 years to create a database of historical records on consumer expenditures linked to Census Bureau data. The database will be widely available to researchers and the public at no cost, enabling studies on the evolution of living standards and consumption patterns in the post-WWII period. The research team plans to use the data to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $775,089 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support research to develop innovative methods for collecting social network data inexpensively at scale. Researchers will use the new Aggregate Relational Data method to build two large datasets mapping socioeconomic relationships among vulnerable populations within local communities and across...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, provides $750,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to create infrastructure to support digital capacity building for under-resourced microbusinesses. The key goals are to: 1) develop a taxonomy of barriers and supports to digital technology adoption among microbusinesses, 2) create culturally relevant workforce training for technology jobs, and 3)...