Project Grant MCC16GRA0007

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $143,000 project grant to support research titled "Women’s Political Participation in a Transitioning Democracy" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in the social sciences through funding research that contributes to scientific understanding and...

This $288,779 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at the University of Iowa from September 2022 through August 2024 to advance understanding of gender gaps in academic science. The interdisciplinary team will analyze publication records of over 90 million researchers worldwide to develop novel topic fit indices measuring subject congruence between new collaborations and existing work. These indices...

This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Federal Grant Program for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075). The project, conducted by New York University (NYU), is examining the causal impact of social media usage on individual well-being and out-group animosity across multiple countries through a global field experiment. The research team is incentivizing a large sample of people to temporarily reduce...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award provides $241,331 to Duke University to conduct research on the unintended consequences of policies that aim to increase female economic empowerment. Specifically, the research project will study the effects of a new system of digitized and centralized land records on female land inheritance, human capital investments, and marriage outcomes in an agricultural region. The researchers...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $200,000 to Duke University to conduct a cross-national study using generative artificial intelligence, social simulation models, and online experiments. The goal is to identify how social media algorithms can be redesigned to promote mutual understanding, increase trust, and reduce polarization. The research design involves training large language models...

This $114,410 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research by Colorado State University to explore potential barriers to women speaking up in work teams. The project aims to understand why and when women are less likely than men to express ideas, emerge as leaders, and participate in work team discussions, which can impact their career advancement and workforce contributions....

This three-year $265,881 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to develop analytical tools and language to better describe complex group affiliations. The University of California, Merced will build on cultural evolutionary theory to understand how multifaceted group identities respond to individual incentives. Researchers will iteratively refine statistical models using ethnographic data to capture how identities are...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will fund a $428,460 research program at the University of Chicago to develop improved econometric methods for understanding earnings heterogeneity in matched employer-employee data and intergenerational mobility. The research program consists of three projects: 1) re-examining the role of firm heterogeneity, worker heterogeneity, worker...

This $140,101 National Science Foundation project grant supports research examining women's access to powerful cabinet-level positions focused on security policymaking. Specifically, the award to Washington University will fund a collaborative research project analyzing causes and consequences of women's exclusion from or appointment to the defense, interior/home affairs, and foreign affairs cabinets. The research aims to test hypotheses about how women gain access to traditionally masculine...

This $1,279,000 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program. The grant, titled "WISE INDIA: Women's Initiative for Socioeconomic Empowerment," supports a 3-year initiative beginning September 2024 to empower women in India through socioeconomic development activities. The primary awardee, Yale University, will leverage its expertise in research, analysis, and program...