This $367,914 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds collaborative research to study the economics of wait times in healthcare delivery. The award supports a research project that examines whether longer wait times for medical appointments and procedures result in adverse health outcomes and higher healthcare spending. The researchers are measuring waiting times for over a dozen medical...
This $238,884 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to assess the efficacy of digital health technologies in low-resource settings. The 2-year project, running from April 2025 to March 2027, examines how digital health services impact treatment experiences, communication strategies, and perceptions of effectiveness for both patients and providers in a rural, low-resourced area....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber, for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's 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 the mortality effects of health insurance networks...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA program 47.041 (Engineering) provides $319,727 in funding to Southern Methodist University (SMU) from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028. The award supports research to develop quantitative methods for designing and controlling service systems, such as healthcare, customer contact centers, and online platforms, that account for the impacts of human-related phenomena like customer patience and delay. The research aims to address...
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...
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...
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...
This $131,615 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, aims to develop novel Bayesian statistical models for analyzing complex high-dimensional health data. The research will focus on creating improved joint models that can leverage information from longitudinal measurements, such as clinical data and biomarkers, to better predict time-to-event outcomes like disease...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of algorithms for real-time dynamic risk identification and monitoring of streaming data, particularly in the domains of electronic medical records, mobile health, and supply chain. The key objectives are to create a unified framework for dynamic risk detection that can be incorporated into...
This $265,102 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The goal of the research is to build empirically informed models to better understand the causes behind the declining rate of scientific innovation and identify solutions to foster more scientific breakthroughs. The award supports a novel mixed-method approach that combines agent-based simulation modeling with empirical analysis of the...