This $156,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund a research project at the University of Colorado-Denver to study the long-term effects of Mexico's universal public health insurance program, Seguro Popular, on child health and household outcomes. The project will leverage the longitudinal, nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey to identify the causal...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $325,000 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct research on the effects of government-led cash transfer programs on health outcomes among women and young children in low- and middle-income countries. The research will utilize data from 37 low- and middle-income countries...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $332,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to study the long-term impacts of an early childhood development intervention delivered in rural Kenya. The study aims to follow up on a previous 8-month parenting intervention and a complementary 2-year "booster" program delivered by...
The Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $1,381,350 project grant to The Urban Institute under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination federal grant program (CFDA 84.305) to conduct a lottery-based efficacy study of the District of Columbia Public Prekindergarten Program from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The Urban Institute will leverage random variation in pre-K enrollment generated through a deferred acceptance lottery method akin to a...
This $150,034 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) is funding research on the parenting behaviors and self-regulation of low-income ethnic minority mothers and fathers and their toddlers. The key products and services being delivered through this 2-year award to the University of Maryland, College Park include: 1) assessing the levels and changes...
This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund (CFDA 93.596) program will be used by the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education, doing business as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), to conduct a mixed methods study examining the role of subsidy policies on early care and education access...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will provide $510,492 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on maternal health outcomes among non-qualified immigrants and the impact of state policies expanding public insurance eligibility. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) examine differences in maternal...
This Project Grant award of $591,519 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a 30-year panel study on the transitions to adulthood and intergenerational transmission of inequality in the Kagera region of Tanzania. The research team at the University of Maryland, College Park will track a sample of 2,700 respondents from childhood to adulthood, including collecting...
This federal Project Grant award of $694,528 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant supports research on "The Learning and Educational Attainment of Preterm and At-Risk Infants" to be conducted by the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, a division of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, a prominent non-profit healthcare system. The research aims to...
The federal Project Grant award R21HD116227, totaling $263,134.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The funding supports a research project led by the University of Southern California to investigate the impact of COVID-19-related child care center closures on the developmental outcomes of infants and toddlers in low-income families receiving home visitation...