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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Chris | Zepeda-Millan | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Loyola Marymount University | ccss grant | ||
Xue | Zhang | Global Development | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Liandong | Zhang | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Hong Kong | ccss grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | The Value of Mandated Sick-Pay for the U.S. | This research resulted in two peer-reviewed publications in Health Service Research and the Journal of Public Economics as well as two follow-up grants from RWJF and the Center for Equitable Growth. The findings from the JPubE publication were featured in the Healthy Families Act. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications for Climate Change | The research resulted in a journal publication in the top field environmental economics Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2018): "Population Health Effects and Health-Related Costs of Extreme Temperatures: Comprehensive Evidence from Germany," Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 91: 93–117. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
Kaspar | Zimmerman | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | 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. | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | 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 |
Emily | Zitek | Organizational Behavior | When Do People Perceive Their Positive Outcomes as Unfair? | A paper describing a series of studies funded by this grant will soon be under review. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | ccss grant |
Luo | Zuo | Johnson Graduate School of Management | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant |
Ariel | Ortiz-Bobea | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Can public institutions resolve information asymmetries? Historical evidence from the French wine market | This grant led to a paper "How big is the “lemons” problem? Historical evidence from French wines" (European Economic Review, 2021) and the publication of a new historical department-level dataset of French wine production and price data for 1907–1969. |
2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant |
Pierre | Mérel | Agriculture and Resource Economics | Can public institutions resolve information asymmetries? Historical evidence from the French wine market | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | UC Davis | ccss grant | |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Alicia | Orta-Ramirez | Food Science and Technology | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Per | Pinstrup-Andersen | Nutritional Sciences | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Jennifer | Hochschild | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Real Estate Cycles and Banking Crises | 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. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant |
Sara | Bronin | City and Regional Planning | A Historic Preservation Local Law Census: Where and Why | People interact with preservation law predominantly at the local level, through historic commissions that opine on proposed rehab projects. Yet there is neither a census of local governments that regulate historic places, nor any scholarship that ties adoption to demographic characteristics, political inclinations, and state enabling authority features. My research will identify where historic districts have been adopted and explore how rates of adoption change from state to state depending on various independent variables. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | ccss grant |
Douglas | Kriner | Government | Presidential Politics in an Era of Democratic Disruption | This conference examines how presidential politics have helped precipitate and in turn been shaped by troubling trends in democratic governance in the United States and around the world. Papers will be published in a special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
David | Mimno | Information Science | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | ccss grant |
Will | Hobbs | Psychology | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant |
Shaun | Nichols | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 |
Laura | Smith | Public and Ecosystem Health | Incorporating “Zunde Ramambo” into Sustainable Nutrition Interventions to Improve Child Health | Zunde Ramambo is a community-initiated solution to looking after vulnerable children and households through the practice of sharing resources and we propose to engage the same cohort of households involved in the CHAIN trial to explore ways to incorporate it into sustainable nutrition interventions to improve child health and development. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | ccss grant |
David | Bateman | Government | Congress & History Conference | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Learning at Scale Conference at Cornell Tech | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | ccss grant | |
Begüm | Adalet | Government | Transnational Theories | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Chloe | Ahmann | Anthropology | After Apocalypse: The Work of Utopia in White Power Activism | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Victoria | Beard | City and Regional Planning | Global Survey of City Leaders | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | ccss grant | |
Heeyon | Kim | School of Hotel Administration | How University Status Impacts the Stigma Attached to Online Degrees | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant | |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | How University Status Impacts the Stigma Attached to Online Degrees | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | ccss grant | |
Kevin | Kniffin | Applied Economics and Management | Enhancing the Effectiveness of Soft Skills Among STEM Doctoral Students | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | The Insight Bias: People Overestimate the Quality of Ideas Generated via Insight | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | ccss grant | |
Courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Implications of Racial Codeswitching on Bodily and Psychological Outcomes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | ccss grant | |
Karl | Pillemer | Psychology | Linking Families and Community Institutions: Testing the Partners in Care Intervention | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Measuring Race as a Social Construct: Toward Improving the State of the Art | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Katherine | Zaslavsky | Sociology | Measuring Race as a Social Construct: Toward Improving the State of the Art | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 | |
Michael | Hoffman | Entomology | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Danielle | Eiseman | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ccss grant | |
Aaron | Adalja | School of Hotel Administration | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant | |
Ariel | Ortiz-Bobea | Applied Economics and Management | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ccss grant | |
David | Field | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant | |
Adam | Anderson | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ccss grant | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ccss grant |
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