Project Grant 2599

This $237,197 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, aims to understand the impact of remote and hybrid work arrangements on employee time use, role behaviors, and well-being. The project will analyze existing American Time Use Study data to examine work activity and location patterns and transitions, as well as conduct a 10-day experience sampling study to capture features of the work environment, job,...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to explore how technological changes are impacting worker skills and employment. The project will analyze future skill demands driven by technological disruption and develop effective, affordable educational approaches to enable workers, especially those without college degrees, to reskill and upskill. The research aims to leverage...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $315,662 Project Grant to the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) to investigate the labor market experiences and trajectories of the fastest growing demographic group in the United States, including their workforce in science and engineering. The project uses restricted-access linked longitudinal survey and census data to study the economic outcomes and trajectories of this population, disaggregating the...

This three-year, $438,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science will fund research by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. on the micro and macroeconomic effects of supply chain disruptions. The awardee will develop firm-level models to investigate how supply disruptions impact aggregate economic outcomes like GDP, employment, and prices, and can potentially cause recessions or inflation. The models will measure the contribution of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science provides $478,846 to support research on the macroeconomic implications of imperfectly competitive labor markets. The award will fund a collaborative research project led by the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. to develop quantitative frameworks analyzing how minimum wage policies, antitrust policies, and tax policies can improve outcomes in labor markets with wage setting power. The...

This $300,000 Project Grant award was made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The grant will support the development and testing of methods to help evaluate the potential readiness of regional workforces to meet skill demands created by large-scale industry transitions and technological change. This includes leveraging approaches to estimate the similarity of requirements between different occupations and using...

This $276,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to deepen understanding of how national scientific systems are interconnected with global economic and political dynamics, providing insights on the effects of scientific cooperation across countries...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a $499,971 research study conducted by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The study aims to create a new longitudinal dataset from the American Community Survey to analyze how changes in transportation infrastructure and teleworking affect commuting behavior, distance, and wage growth. The research will help state and local governments...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $299,139, was provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports research to evaluate the impact of accelerated government R&D funding for small technology businesses, with a focus on understanding the role of timing between SBIR/STTR grant rounds and its impact on technology outcomes and program success. The research will use data on federal R&D funding...