Past Grantees and Fellows

Using qualitative semi-structured interviews, this project is an investigation into the destigmatization process families may face via monthly cash benefits as a part of the new expanded Child Tax Credit.

This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars.

This book project submits that humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity increasingly coincides with regress into mass uncertainty and unease, climaxing with the coronavirus crisis. Decoding liberalism's deadlock may help renew hope and improve politics. We examine our propositions comparatively, across cultures and civilizations.

Natural language and pictorial narratives convey information about a sequence of events. This project applies technical frameworks from natural language semantics and pragmatics to Indian pictorial narratives, focusing on temporal relations and issues of co-reference.  

This project explores the entanglements between modernist donor-funded community development projects, structural inequalities such as caste, intergenerational debt bondage and land ownership with the unevenness of climate vulnerability in the Indus Delta region of Pakistan.

Using 14 years of longitudinal data from Labor Organization Annual Reports, which all private-sector unions are required to file, this research will be the first quantitative analysis to explore nationally the question of gender (in)equality in union officer positions.

This research project utilized a governance framework to examine the civic engagement strategies of civil society organizations involved in urban environmental management, and how those strategies strengthen the influence of civil society organizations in urban regimes for land-use management. 

This project will test the overlapping and unique representations of social and physical resources in the brain using partner hand holding and a tasteless carbohydrate.

Anderson’s lab collected data through behavioral assessment of sensitivity to emotional cues, findings of which have highlighted a distinction between emotional reactivity to a current event and the tendency to embed emotional events into memory. He received a second CU grant for the project. 

This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research. 

This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory.

CCSS funds went towards purchasing advertising data used for pilot analyses included in an NIH/AHRQ grant proposal, “Direct and Indirect Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” Avery (Cornell PI), Eisenberg (JHU), Sood (USC), Alpert (UPenn), and Niederdeppe (Cornell), which received four years of funding May 2018.

As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.

This project will create two datasets for analysis: (1) digital copies of 20th and 21st-century newspaper stories of police shootings/ violence against African Americans covered by African-American newspapers and newspapers with historical white ownership; (2) digital copies of 20th century US memoirs of incarceration.  

Through triangulating in-depth interviews, original datasets, and national archive data on child placement outcomes, this comprehensive analysis will explore the question, are children harmed when child placement agencies close their doors rather than follow anti-discrimination rules that violate their religious beliefs? 

Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.

Campello and Baron digitized and translated financial statements for 950 German firms and 300 Swedish firms over the period 1948-1965, building a database similar to Compustat. They also assembled a database on wages, productivity, and patents for German firms by industries and counties. 

This project aims to analyze the role of real estate cycles in causing banking crises by creating a new historical database of the stock returns of real estate-related firms and investment vehicles since 1870 across 17 economies.

This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper.

This project gathers data on individual U.S. firms and municipalities in the 1920s to assess the extent to which corporate and mortgage debt issuance and real estate construction helped precipitate the banking crises of the Great Depression. 

This small grant generated multiple peer-reviewed articles, in for example World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Economic & Political Weekly.

This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research.

This grant seeded work that ultimately led to 9 journal articles, 1 book, and >$3 mn in external funding.

We will build a database linking administrative records on food assistance in NYS to federal programs such as SNAP and WIC, with usage data from private providers like the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, which serves our six-county region. 

This project: puts forward a semi-nonparametric empirical model of discrete choice with limited consideration; characterizes what can be learned about the parameters and distribution functions; provides methods to build and test confidence intervals; applies the previous to household decision making under risk.