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 Sort descending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Anna | Haskins | Sociology | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Gary W. | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Development | Childhood Poverty, Health, and Behavior: Biological and Psychosocial Pathways | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Linda | Barrington | The Cornell Criminal Records Panel Survey (CCRPS): Sample Expansion and Linkage to Administrative Records | This grant supported participant recruitment for the CCRPS, as well as coding of administrative data. This helped us to gain funding from the Department of Labor for the development and fielding of the Wave 2 survey (EO-30278-17-60-5-36; $244,603). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sahara | Byrne | 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 | |
Rachel | Aleks | Labor Relations Law and History | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 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. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Stijn M. J. | Van Osselaer | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Starbucks Effect: How Consumer Identification Impacts Consumer Preferences | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences (Association of Consumer Research and Society of Consumer Psychology Conferences). Further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | The Cornell Criminal Records Panel Survey (CCRPS): Sample Expansion and Linkage to Administrative Records | This grant supported participant recruitment for the CCRPS, as well as coding of administrative data. This helped us to gain funding from the Department of Labor for the development and fielding of the Wave 2 survey (EO-30278-17-60-5-36; $244,603). | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lars | Vilhuber | Economics | The Cornell Criminal Records Panel Survey (CCRPS): Sample Expansion and Linkage to Administrative Records | This grant supported participant recruitment for the CCRPS, as well as coding of administrative data. This helped us to gain funding from the Department of Labor for the development and fielding of the Wave 2 survey (EO-30278-17-60-5-36; $244,603). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Olivia Xin | Wen | Psychology | Social Affiliation and Music-Induced Synchrony in Dance | Prior support led to 1 paper and two papers in preparation, 2 pop press pieces, 2 chaired symposia, and 3 posters (awarded the SPSP Student Poster Award (1st place). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Do Policies Affect Father Involvement, and How Much Does Involvement Reduce Inequality in Child Outcomes? | The ISS small grant helped us secure funding for a 3-year project from the WT Grant Foundation. Research from this project has been presented at several conferences and has resulted in five journal articles to date. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Martin | Wells | Statistical Science | The Cornell Criminal Records Panel Survey (CCRPS): Sample Expansion and Linkage to Administrative Records | This grant supported participant recruitment for the CCRPS, as well as coding of administrative data. This helped us to gain funding from the Department of Labor for the development and fielding of the Wave 2 survey (EO-30278-17-60-5-36; $244,603). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sarah E. | Wolfolds | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Employee Incentives in Microfinance Institutions:Examining the Importance of Diversification and Profit Status | The survey was included in a paper awarded the Charles H. Levine Best Conference Paper from the Public and Nonprofit Division, presented at the Academy of Management in Chicago in August 2018. Follow-up grants were awarded to continue this project, and further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Camille | Robcis | History | The Catholic Origins of French Dignity | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Aaron | Sachs | History | Creative Academic Writing: Exploring the Relationship between Artful Prose and Scholarly Production | The experience of this conference helped lead to the publication of _Artful History: A Practical Anthology_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), co-edited by Aaron Sachs and John Demos. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | Understanding the Impact of Austerity on New York's Local Governments | This research was presented at state and national conferences and published in 2019 in Environment and Planning A. "Austerity Coalitions or Pragmatic Municipalism? Local Responses to Austerity in New York State,”. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Social Affiliation and Music-Induced Synchrony in Dance | Prior support led to 1 paper and two papers in preparation, 2 pop press pieces, 2 chaired symposia, and 3 posters (awarded the SPSP Student Poster Award (1st place). | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Jing | Li | Healthcare Research and Policy | The Impact of the 2008-2009 Economic Recession on Service Intensity in Physician Offices | This project led to the peer-reviewed publication: Li et al. “County-level unemployment rates and service intensity in primary care physician offices for Medicare patients.” Medical Care Research and Review. 2019 Aug 31:1077558719872864. It also led to a presentation at the International Health Economics Association congress. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Alex | Susskind | School of Hotel Administration | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Lim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Starbucks Effect: How Consumer Identification Impacts Consumer Preferences | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences (Association of Consumer Research and Society of Consumer Psychology Conferences). Further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Tina | Saksida | Business | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Prince Edward Island | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Victor | Seow | History | Manufacturing Revolutions: The Rise and Decline of a Chinese Automobile City | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeremy | Wallace | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. |
20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Panle | Barwick | Economics | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Kaushik | Basu | Economics | Thinking Big: Workshop on Macro-Development Policy | This multidisciplinary conference discussed the role that government plays in generating economic growth in the developing world, bringing together scholars and policy-makers. |
2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Pauline | Leung | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Heidi | Kretser | Natural Resources | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Murillo | Campello | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Unions and the Postwar European "Economic Miracle" | 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. |
2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
Hyuncheol | Kim | Policy Analysis and Management | Promoting Healthy Eating among Poor Children: Information, Affordability, and Accessibility on Food Consumption in Ethiopia | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Sabrina | Karim | Government | Endline Survey for Election Violence Project in Liberia | The research afforded by this grant produced the paper, "Election Violence Prevention During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Police and Youth in Liberia," which finds that experiences with successful elections enhances perceptions of democracy among police officers. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Unions and the Postwar European "Economic Miracle" | 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. |
2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Magnus | Fiskesjo | Anthropology | Kings and Dictators: Asia’s New Authoritarianians and the Legacy of Monarchy (Conference) | The conference "Kings & Dictators: The legacy of monarchy and the new authoritarianism in Asia" was held April 13-14, 2018. It included both external invitees and Cornell speakers, and attracted a large Cornell audience, including students in a course timed to coincide with it. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ximena | Fajardo | Management | Is Colombia Ready for a Sustainable Cocoa Boom? Developing a Baseline Knowledge on the Productive Practices, Biodiversity Conditions and Environmental Performance of Cocoa Production in a Post-Conflict Context | This research examined challenges and opportunities for development of cacao value chains in post-conflict regions in rural Colombia, deriving on a MS Thesis “Using Cacao to Catalyze Development: Productivity Drivers and Technology Adoption amongst Smallholder Farmers in Montes De Maria, Colombia” (Williams 2019) | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | University of the Andes | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Social Influence and Reward Learning in Discriminatory Decision Making | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Bezner Kerr | Development Sociology | Food, Agroecology, Justice, and Well-being Conference | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Thinking Big: Workshop on Macro-Development Policy | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Miguel I. | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Is Colombia Ready for a Sustainable Cocoa Boom? Developing a Baseline Knowledge on the Productive Practices, Biodiversity Conditions and Environmental Performance of Cocoa Production in a Post-Conflict Context | This research examined challenges and opportunities for development of cacao value chains in post-conflict regions in rural Colombia, deriving on a MS Thesis “Using Cacao to Catalyze Development: Productivity Drivers and Technology Adoption amongst Smallholder Farmers in Montes De Maria, Colombia” (Williams 2019) | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Gender Inequalities in Social Media Work: Digital Labor as a New "Pink Ghetto?" | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Nicola | Dell | 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 |
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