Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name Sort descending | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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john | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Response to the Withdrawal of Prescription Drugs | This project, which examined how consumers respond when prescription drugs were pulled from the market, resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. It also led to further collaboration, and two subsequent publications on related topics, with the same coauthor. | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
john | Carruthers | City and Regional Planning, Regional Science | Growing Denser and Greener: Lessons From the Emerald City� | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
john | Abowd | Economics | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | 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. |
2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
john | Hale | Linguistics | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
john | Doris | Management | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
john | Forester | City and Regional Planning | Exploring Conflict, Improvisation, and Governance through Practice-Focused Oral Histories: Advancing an International Network of Applied Research | This research contributed to “How Urban Managers Improvise in Practice: Rethinking the Exercise of Discretion,” with D. Laws and N. Verloo, under review for publication. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
john | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Leveraging the ASHEcon Conference at Cornell to Promote Exchange Across the Social Sciences | This grant contributed funding to support Cornell’s hosting of the national American Society of Health Economists meeting on campus. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
john | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling on Food Choice | We conducted a randomized experiment of calorie labels on restaurant menus. Over 5,500 patrons received either the regular menu without calorie counts or the same menu but with calorie information added. We estimate that the calorie labels reduced the number of calories ordered by roughly 3%. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
john | Whitman | Linguistics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
john | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
john | Forester | City and Regional Planning | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | ||
john | Sipple | Development Sociology | Enhancing the Community Impact of School-Based Health Centers in Rural New York | The ISS grant provided the necessary support to secure a data agreement between the Bassett (NY Healthcare system and Cornell’s CRADIC system. We are now analyzing nearly 4 million records over 7 years to measure the impact of SBHCs on the healthcare behavior of residents in five counties. We recently secured a Federal Hatch grant to continue our analyses in partnership with Bassett. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
john | Sipple | Global Development | Rural Schools: Planning and Decision Making in Times of Fiscal Stress | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
john | Thrasher | Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy | The nature and emergence of property norms | Where do ideas of private property come from? This project will examine how territorial instincts might generate property norms through biases in cultural learning. The project will also investigate how people think about property norms, e.g., whether they are fundamentally moral or conventional. |
2022 | Spring | Co-PI | Chapman University | CCSS Grant |
john | Zinda | Development Sociology | Cross-Cutting Risk Responses: Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | This fellowship facilitated analytical work and advanced methodological training, as of January 2022 yielding one journal article (Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and COVID-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents), two manuscripts in progress, and a grant proposal in preparation. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
john | Sipple | Global Development | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
john | Sipple | Education | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
john | Doris | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
john | Zinda | Development Sociology | Apples, Livelihoods, Landscapes: The Role of Perennial Crops in China’s Rural Transformations | During the course of this fellowship, Zinda advanced ongoing work on livelihoods and landscape change in China as well as analyses of original survey data on risk perceptions and preparedness actions surrounding flooding and COVID-19 in upstate New York. Four articles based on this work are in varying stages of composition and peer review. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
john | Zinda | Global Development | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
john | Sipple | Education | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
john h. | Blume | Law | Prosecutorial Discretion & Perceptions of Place: How Neighborhoods Matter in Juvenile Cases | Through in-depth interviews and participatory mapping, this study investigates the process of prosecutorial discretion, focusing on the influence of spatial stigma on charging offers for juvenile offenders and answering the question: how do attorneys perceive the role of neighborhoods in their approach to prosecuting juvenile cases? |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
john h. | Guckenheimer | Mathematics | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
john h. | Blume | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
jon | Kleinberg | Computer Science | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | 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. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
jonathan | Boyarin | Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Effect of Perceived Economic Inequality on Sustainability and Collective Action | This research contributed to a first-authored publication in Climatic Change for graduate student, Julia Davydova: “Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation” (Davydova, Pearson, Ballew, & Schuldt, 2018) | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Cross-Cultural Public Opinion on Climate Change Amid Global Energy Transition | This grant resulted in a Washington Post article ("Despite what Trump says, most Americans want climate action-even if China doesn't do its part") and prompted a related project and a paper published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Merging Data from the Roper Center Archive to Facilitate Population Subgroup Analysis: Identifying Opportunities and Strategies | This group met regularly, wrote a cross-disciplinary Cornell Migrations research proposal with faculty from Govt, Comm, and PAM to understand the social and political views of Latino Immigrants in the U.S., 2003-2019 and received an NSF grant to evaluate social bias during the COVID-19 crisis. [45] | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Minimum Staffing Legalization and the Quality of Health Care: Evidence on Effectiveness and Necessity from a Natural Experiment | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
jordan | Matsudaira | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | 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. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | Columbia University | Collaborative Project | ||
jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
jordan | Matsudaira | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
jörg | Stoye | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
jorgen | Harris | Economics | Polarized Beliefs and Discrimination | The grant led to the paper “Professional Interactions and Hiring Decisions: Evidence from the Federal Judiciary (NBER Working Paper 26726). This is a highly influential paper, as proved by the fact that it was profiled by the NBER Digest (May 2020 issue). | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
jose | Fernandez-Albertos | Preferences of Firms During Economic Crists: Evidence from Spain | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Institute for Policies and Public Goods | CCSS Grant | ||
jose | Fernandez-Albertos | Economic Harship, Citizen Policy Preferences, and Political Participation in the Eurozone Periphery: Evidence from Spain | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Institute for Policies and Public Goods | CCSS Grant | ||
joseph | Price | Economics | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
joseph | Sabia | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | American University | CCSS Grant | ||
joseph | Lasky | Government | Shadows and Silence: Identity and Legacies of Cameroon's Hidden War | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
joseph | Lasky | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
joseph | Price | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Brigham Young University | CCSS Grant | ||
joseph | Lasky | Government | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
joshua | Woodard | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Farm Bill Dairy Title Milk Producer Survey in NY State | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
joshua | Linn | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Maryland | |||
joy | Wu | Munich School of Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
joy | Ming | Information Science | Visibilizing Work: Collecting In-Depth Narratives of Home Care Workers for Advocacy | Home care workers (HCWs) are essential but vulnerable workers—a lot of their difficult working conditions and out-of-scope contributions are rendered invisible. My project collects and aggregates data and stories of HCWs to develop a comprehensive narrative to reduce wage theft and advocate for fairer wages. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
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