Project Grant W911NF2410177

This $257,148 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund experimental research on social networks and migration in Nepal. Yale University will conduct a randomized controlled trial involving 2,000 potential migrants to evaluate the impact of three interventions on migration outcomes. The interventions include standard information on migration opportunities alone or paired with idiosyncratic guidance from an experienced...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $400,000 to New York University (NYU) to research neighborhood mobility patterns and their relationship to community well-being. The key products and services to be delivered include: Identifying biases in large-scale mobility data and developing methods to correct them; modeling neighborhood connectedness networks using mobility data and analyzing how...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $170,424 to Vanderbilt University to conduct research on reducing prejudice toward refugees through social networks from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The research will assemble a new dataset on individual attributes, attitudes toward refugees, beliefs about community views, and social network information from randomly selected households. It will assess...

This two-year, $217,923 National Science Foundation project grant funds collaborative research on human networks, sustainable development, and lived experience in a nonindustrial society. Led by researchers from multiple universities and tribal communities, the grantees will investigate relationships between spatial patterns of social interaction and quality of life over 800 years in the Southwestern United States. They will combine existing demographic, socioeconomic, health, and...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $412,271 will fund research from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The awardee, George Washington University, will conduct a study to reduce prejudice toward refugees through perspective-taking interventions and analyze how social networks influence attitude change over time. Specifically, the university will collect data on household attributes, refugee attitudes, and social network...

This $191,980 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research examining the impact of displacement on the development of social preferences and trust in children. The project, conducted by the University of Chicago, will study how displacement caused by conflicts and climate change affects children's and adolescents' social behaviors, trust, cooperation, and adherence to social norms. The research...

This $142,723 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program) supports collaborative research examining how living in a U.S. border region influences how residents adapt their behavior in response to environmental changes, such as shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns. The 36-month study, led by researchers from multiple disciplines, aims to: 1) investigate how border-specific attributes impact environmental...

This $185,194 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the role of human and animal mobility and migration in enabling the persistence of cities in fragile environments. Led by Stony Brook University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the research team will examine skeletal remains from one ancient city in a floodplain region using strontium, neodymium, and lead isotope analysis to determine the geographic origins of human and...

This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research examining tenant immobility and its impacts on family well-being. The grantee, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, will investigate how social networks, neighborhood contexts, and indoor environmental conditions influence low-income renters' decisions to remain in their homes in Los Angeles County,...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $447,116 supports research into network formation and function within and between cultural groups from 2023 to 2025. Funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grant to Trustees of Boston University will study the development of social relationships between culturally distinct populations and how individuals leverage relationships to access supportive resources. Using multilevel network models...