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 Sort descending | Grant Type |
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Elizabeth | Peters | Policy Analysis and Management | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Janis | Whitlock | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Elizabeth | Peters | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
David | Sahn | Nutritional Sciences | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | ||
Judith | Ross-Bernstein | Human Development | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Reut | Shachnai | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Jay | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Roles of Positive Emotions in Human-Product Interactions | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Designing developmentally-supportive play environments: Testing and refinement of an outdoor playspace audit tool | The proposed work will contribute to the development of a validated outdoor playspace audit tool. Through this initial mixed-methods testing and preliminary validation of a draft tool at 6-8 pilot sites the work will support the final refinement, testing, and publication of this valuable research and design tool. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | "Men at Work" (and Family): Caregiving Responsibilities among the Working Class | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | How Housing and Labor Market Conditions Influence the Progression of Romantic Relationships | One paper from this grant has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming at Journal of Marriage & Family. A second paper, based on restricted data, is delayed as the RDC has been closed since March due to COVID. | 2017 | Fall | Co-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 | |
Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Parents’ Time with Children and Subjective Well-being | This project led to a stream of papers on parental well-being in the context of time-intensive, child-centered, and unequal parenting, including “How Parents Fare: Mothers' and Fathers' Subjective Well-Being in Time with Children” in American Sociological Review (Musick et al., 2016). | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Cindy | Kao | Human Centered Design | Understanding the Social Aspects of On-Skin Interface Usage | On-skin interfaces are a fast-growing segment of wearable computing in daily life. However, the social aspects of using these devices remain underexplored. This project examines how on-skin interfaces could enhance and even create new forms of social experience and engage broader populations for inclusive design. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | Pre-Marital Cohabitation and Diverging Destinies, Gender and Class Differences in Life Trajectories and Family Formation | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | Marriage and Re-partnering in the Second Half of Life | This project contributed to multiple papers and chapters on the potential contributions of ageism to social isolation and loneliness among older adults and its impact on health. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Vincent | Slaugh | Operations, Technology, and Information Management | Child Welfare Operations Research Symposium | This symposium aims to connect operations academics with child welfare leaders and facilitate conversations about how operations research approaches can help improve child welfare. Approximately 30 attendees will meet at Cornell on November 9 practitioner panels, brief research presentations, and roundtable discussions. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
Peng | Liu | School of Hotel Administration | Commodity Prices in the Presence of Long-run Economic Relationships | This study resulted in a publication titled “Economic Linkages, Relative Scarcity, and Commodity Futures Returns” at the Review of Financial Studies in 2013. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Wendong | Zhang | Applied Economics and Management | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Edith | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Do international bond markets diversify portfolio risk? | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Yanyan | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Targeting and Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme | This small grant generated multiple peer-reviewed articles, in for example World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Economic & Political Weekly. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Marcel | Preuss | Strategy and Business Economics | Redistribution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT promise significant productivity improvements, but they may also reduce the importance of human capital and labor, further concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the rich. The authors investigate views on inequality and support for economic policies in an AI dominated economy. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | ||
Wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Effect of neighborhood stigma on entrepreneurship | Stigma has been shown to have a large negative impact on firms. However, research has focused on stigma from individual, firm, or category-level characteristics. While stigma created by the geographic location of the firm has been largely ignored, even though this stigma is widespread. In this study, the authors attempt to demonstrate how the location of a firm, when stigmatized, can impact the firm's ability to acquire capital. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Heeyon | Kim | School of Hotel Administration | Disrupting a Winner-Take-All Market: Pathways for Increasing Status Mobility in the Art World | Increasing number of fields resemble a winner-take-all market with limited pathways of status mobility for lower-status actors. Using both online and field experiments in the art market context, the proposed research will investigate structural and contextual interventions that can increase audience engagement with lesser-known artworks. |
2023 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Matt | Marx | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Attention to Exploration: The Effect of Technology Clusters on Scientific Knowledge Production | Do technology clusters of firms affect the direction of local university researchers’ academic research and inspire more applied, commercializable research? By taking advantage of the announcement of previously-unanticipated entry of high-tech firms, we will identify the causal effect of technology clusters on scientists’ research direction. |
2022 | Fall | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Kevin | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Edith | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The effect of globalization on bank operations and borrowing costs | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Chris | Forman | Applied Economics and Management | Dancing with Stars or Crowded out by Stars: Superstar Firms’ Effect on AI Adoption | Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Peng | Liu | School of Hotel Administration | Novelty and Popularity in Markets for News | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sunita | Sah | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Benjamin | Leyden | Applied Economics and Management | Financial Language, Communication, and Competition Across US Industries | We study whether and how companies use a sanctioned form of public communication—quarterly earnings calls—to communicate strategic information with their competitors to coordinate strategic actions and lower competition, thus circumventing antitrust laws. This work will inform policy regarding firm communication and market competition. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Daniela | Scur | Applied Economics and Management | Dampening Natural Disasters' Disruptive Effects on Firms and Labor Markets | There is still a dearth of evidence on disruptions from "day-to-day" climate shocks such as harsher seasonal flooding. As climate change intensifies these regular events, understanding their impact, how governments and firms can invest in mitigation strategies and how they can handle recovery and reconstruction is key. |
2022 | Fall | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ||
Ben | Leyden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | A Platform-wide Analysis of Firm Responses to Platform-owner | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Qingzhong | Ma | School of Hotel Administration | What Drives the Stock Price Runups? Insider Trading vs. Market Anticipation | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Marie | Ozanne | School of Hotel Administration | How the Use of a Non-native (vs. Native) Language Shapes Food Preferences | Can the use of a non-native (vs. native) language change people’s preference for healthy (vs. unhealthy) food? We investigate whether and how linguistic context (native vs. non-native) influences food choices, advancing literature on bilingualism and health, with practical implications for policy-makers. |
2022 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How the Use of a Non-native (vs. Native) Language Shapes Food Preferences | Can the use of a non-native (vs. native) language change people’s preference for healthy (vs. unhealthy) food? We investigate whether and how linguistic context (native vs. non-native) influences food choices, advancing literature on bilingualism and health, with practical implications for policy-makers. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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. | 2016-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Alexander | Fulmer | Marketing | The Biography of Discovery: How Discovery of Resources by Humans versus Machines Shapes Preference | This research builds upon recent work illuminating that biographical elements of a resource’s discovery can influence consumer preference for otherwise identical resources. Specifically, this project explores how consumer preference for resources is influenced by awareness of whether the discoverer was a human or a machine. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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