This $174,874 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds research to develop a new methodology to distinguish between generalizable and non-generalizable experimental or observational research findings. The research aims to identify environmental, population, and treatment factors that contribute to whether research results can be applied across different contexts or are specific to particular settings....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $131,858 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Sponsored Projects Administration Division (Columbia University), under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds research to develop statistical approaches that improve the external validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences. Specifically, the research will make two key methodological...
This Project Grant award of $194,675 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to develop new econometric and statistical methods that allow researchers to draw valid conclusions from complex data in a variety of social, behavioral, and medical science settings. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a generally applicable reparameterization procedure for informative...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to develop new statistical estimation methods for analyzing causal effects in complex randomized experiments. The research will focus on addressing limitations in current estimation approaches when study participants interact or when experimental designs are intricate. The award recipient, The Trustees of Columbia University in the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $604,296 Project Grant to President and Fellows of Harvard College from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 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 the grant, Harvard will conduct research on social structure learning to contribute to the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $253,965 supports a qualitative study that examines how population science data is represented in social, popular, news, and think tank media. The study, titled "Re-Presenting Population Science Data in the Context of Shifting Demographic Dynamics, Climate Change and Alternative Epistemologies," will produce a scholarly book and curricular materials for...
This $272,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on how people make decisions and interact based on information. The key research focuses include: 1) understanding the long-term implications of people's limited or imperfect memory, which can lead to overconfidence and neglect of rare events; 2) examining how people decide...
President And Fellows of Harvard College was awarded a $332,169 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct the State Health, Institutions, and Politics Survey from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025. The project will provide researchers access to large-scale, state-by-state survey data collected at multiple points in time to explore topics including public attitudes, trust in institutions, well-being, and...
This $595,183 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project that examines the factors influencing the spread and persistence of dynamic social norms. The project investigates attributes like trend longevity, universality, shared cause, and sufficiency that can encourage individuals to adopt emerging social behaviors and beliefs, particularly in the context of addressing societal...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science provides $393,434 to President And Fellows Of Harvard College from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The funding supports research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic scientific knowledge in these fields and monitor resources invested in science. Specifically, the award finances a study on urbanization and economic growth to...