Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type Sort descending |
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Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Work Hours and Gender Inequality in Earnings Across Countries | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Institute for African Development | Elections, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Africa | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | ccss grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Law | The Food and Financial Crisis and Their Impact in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals in Africa | The conference brought scholars and practitioners from abroad to explore food security and its impact on Africa. The presentations made possible the book, Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, which focus on the crises, effects on rural poverty, and recommendations to address the crises. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | ccss grant |
Michael | Neblo | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Ohio State University | ccss grant | ||
Jeremy | Nemeth | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Colorado | ccss grant | |
David | Ng | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Picking Stocks for Fun or Buying Stock Funds: The Portfolio Choices of U.S Individual Investors | This grant helps our research in individuals' investments in mutual funds, and results in a publication of "behavioral biases of mutual fund investors" in Journal of Financial Economics 2011, vol 102, 1-27. This paper has been cited over 350 times. | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Tracy | Nichols | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | ccss grant | |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Insurance Competition and Network Offerings | This grant supported the development of a paper, “Narrow Physician Networks, Switching Costs, and Product Variety in Employer Markets,” which received a revise and resubmit request at the American Economic Review, one of the top journals in economics. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Narrative, Metaphor and Inoculation: Communication Theory to Promote Multi-Sector Approaches to Improving Health | This project laid the groundwork for three subsequent successful grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (from 2018-2020) totaling over $600,000 in funding. Combined, these have supported three PhD students and produced three published papers (and 5 others in process) | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Using Personal Stories to Raise Support for Social Policies to Reduce Obesity | This grant laid the groundwork for a major thread in my research program. This project laid the foundation for at least 30 peer-reviewed research papers and 8 external funded grants totalling over $1 million, largely from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant |
Laura | Niemi | Applied Economics and Management, Psychology | Civility as a contextualized social psychological phenomenon | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Kristoffer | Nimark | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Timothy | O'Donnell | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Harvard, McGill University | ccss grant | ||
Ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
Andrew | Ofstehage | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
bethany | Ojalehto | Human Development | Cognitive Drivers of Environmental DeCornell College of Computing and Information Scienceion Making: Mobilizing Indigenous Ecocentric Conceptual Perspectives in Diverse Contexts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | The Fourth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: New Developments in Aging, Emotion, and Health | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Vaghlea | Palashi | Information Science | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | ccss grant |
Eleonora | Patacchini | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
Eleonora | Patacchini | Economics | Machine Learning for Prediction of Tax Evasion | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
David | Patel | Government | Kin and Kingdom: Using GIS to Understand the Relationship Between Tribes and Elections in Jordan | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Richard | Patterson | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Michael T. | Paz | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant | |
Adam | Pearson | Psychology | 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 | Co-PI | Pomona College | ccss grant |
Adam | Pearson | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Pomona College | ccss grant | ||
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Further Education During Unemployment | Produced an eponymous working paper (Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper #642, May 2020) currently under peer review. Results from the project presented at more than ten seminars and conferences. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
David | Pelletier | Nutritional Sciences | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | This research led to the creation of the Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) and an associated publication: Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2019). | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Political Science and the New Politics of Authoritarianism | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Workshop on the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis | This grant supported an important research workshop on the political implications of the 2008-09 financial crisis around the world, resulting in several peer-reviewed publications. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
Isabel | Perera | Government | The American Political Economy after COVID-19 | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Jamie | Perry | School of Hotel Administration | A Multimethod and Longitudinal Explanation of Diversity and Firm Performance | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant | |
Elizabeth | Peters | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Stefan | Pichler | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | ETH Zurich | ccss grant | ||
Karl | Pillemer | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Karl | Pillemer | Human Development | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Trevor | Pinch | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
David | Pizarro | Psychology | The Positive Side of Morality: Cultural Influences on Judging Good People and Praiseworthy Acts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Sharon | Poctzer | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Impact of Firm's Resource Misallocation on Growth in Developing Economies: Evidence from Indonesia | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant | |
Keith | Porter | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | ccss grant | |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | Teamwork and Technology in the Operating Room | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | The Surgeon's Body: Surgical Practice in an Age of Digital Medicine | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
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