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 Sort descending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Lisa | McCabe | 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 |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Marine Health Matters: A Risk Communication Workshop | This workshop strengthened the network of social science researchers working on marine health challenges and resulted in at least one peer-reviewed publication. | 2013 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Susan | McCouch | Plant Breeding and Genetics | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Interagency Cooperation in Social Services for Families and Children: Application of Group Dynamics Theory | 2006 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Embedded Neo-Liberalism in the Gear of Social Change: A Comparative-Historical Analysis | Assisted grad student lab on local manifestations of neoliberalism, resulting in an edited book, Contesting Development. Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, 2010). |
2007 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Karel | Mertens | Economics | Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence | 2015 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Karel | Mertens | Economics | The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes | 2009 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Policymaking under the Shadow of Death: The Policymaking Process under the Khmer Rouge in Democratic Kampuchea | 2012 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Access Denied: Poverty, Politics, and Civil Legal Representation | This grant supported the research that culminated in an article entitled, “Power from the Margins: Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of Civil Rights” (Urban Affairs Review, 2019). The work on this project continues and will culminate in a book. I have already given over a dozen invited talks based on this research and collaborated with a national organization (the Justice Collaborative Institute) to write a related policy report. | 2017 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Medicaid and the Politics of the Poor | This grant supported the research that culminated in a book entitled, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book won the 2019 Virgina Gray best book award from the American Political Science Association and established the foundation for a current grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (for over $400k) that represents a key extension of this work. Fragmented Democracy has been the basis for more than two dozen invited talks and presentations and has been cited in New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and many other outlets. | 2014 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Douglas | Miller | Policy Analysis and Management | Machine Learning for Prediction of Tax Evasion | We develop a machine-learning prediction model for tax evasion. The model will be used to produce recommendations improving the targeting of auditing resources. Additionally, the prediction model will be used to construct a novel measure of manager productivity in the government service sector. |
2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
David | Mimno | Information Science | Developing Methods for Joint Analysis of Close-Ended and Open-Ended Survey Data | We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST. | 2015 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Bineet | Mishra | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Bjoern | Mitzinneck | Creating Change from Within or Building an Alternative? The Role of Intermediaries in Developing Local Food Systems | 2019 | spring | Co-PI | University of Groningen | CCSS Grant | ||
Devra | Moehler | Government | Tune in to Governance: An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Media Effects and Political Knowledge in Africa | 2005 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Francesca | Molinari | Economics | Estimating Risk Preferences with Limited Consideration | 2018 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | The Geopolitics of Ottoman Imperialism in the Horn of Africa | 2020 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Pamela | Moulton | School of Hotel Administration | Investor Distraction versus Investor Focus: Evidence from Earnings Announcements | 2013 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Education and Changing Patterns of Fertility Over the Life Course | This project led to new descriptive and conceptual work on education differences in the timing and partnership context of fertility, including “Variation in the Relationship Between Education and Marriage: Marriage Market Mismatch” in Journal of Marriage and Family (Musick et al., 2012). | 2009 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | 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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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