This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) is funding a research project that will study the economic and environmental consequences of applying stricter environmental regulations under the Clean Air Act to larger firms. The $485,596 project, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will collect detailed data on plant design, regulatory enforcement, firm revenues and costs, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $654,500 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. The project aims to create a comprehensive database of consistent corporate social responsibility (CSR) metrics to estimate the economic impacts of CSR activities on U.S. and global GDP. The project will utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to automate the extraction of CSR data from various...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports an early career researcher investigating legislative activities in city councils across the United States. The 2-year project, which commenced on August 15, 2024, aims to build an original dataset of legislative actions in hundreds of city councils and analyze differences in the topics and scope of those actions across cities and over time. The research will use...
This $509,498 National Science Foundation project grant supports research on the carbon footprint of multinational production activities through Jul 31, 2025. Funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grantee National Bureau of Economic Research will conduct four research projects analyzing how multinational firm operations across countries impact global carbon dioxide emissions. The grantee will develop new theoretical and empirical methods...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $254,295 to Loyola University of Chicago to create a database and dashboard of ecosystem guidelines for 80 countries. The goal is to conduct comparative analysis on how nations execute their international environmental agreements across sectors like energy, transportation, and agriculture. The project will also measure indicators of short-term and long-term...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $303,440 to American University to create a database and dashboard of ecosystem guidelines for 80 countries. The project aims to systematically compare nations' pledges made in international agreements against their actual practices and adaptation across sectors such as energy, industry, transportation, and agriculture. The project will survey at least 10...
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 $265,102 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports collaborative research to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The research aims to investigate the causes behind the observed decline in innovative activity in science, which is vital for advancing technology, fostering social development, and tackling global issues. Using a novel mixed-method...
This $114,810 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project titled "HNDS-R: Altruistic Stress, Economic Networks, and Endogenous Organizational Change." The project examines how cooperation dynamics can drive organizational outcomes through a collaboration with a network of consumer cooperatives. The research team will develop a model of a generic organization...