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 ascending | Grant Type |
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Christopher | Boone | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Chekitan | Dev | School of Hotel Administration | A Multimethod and Longitudinal Explanation of Diversity and Firm Performance | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Todd | Schmit | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Estimating the Impact of Alternative Canopy Management Practices on White Wine Purchase Decisions | Led to a publication in the Journal of Agricultural Economics entitled the Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects, with B. Rickard and J. Taber, 2013. The research results were used extensively in Extension presentations in New York State. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Christopher B. | Barrett | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | We will build a database linking administrative records on food assistance in NYS to federal programs such as SNAP and WIC, with usage data from private providers like the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, which serves our six-county region. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Eva | Steiner | School of Hotel Administration | How do Firms Respond to Investment Opportunities? The Role of Cities | This research effort led to the study of the characteristics of cities and how they influence investments, including the working paper ìHow Does Property Location Influence Investment Risk and Return?î | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
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 |
William D. | Schulze | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | Co-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 | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Incentivizing Reviews Bias User-Generated Content | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Mark | Constas | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Daniela | Scur | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Capacity to be Aggressive: Structured Management and Tax Behaviors or Firms | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Ivan | Rudik | Applied Economics and Management | Spatial and Sectoral Targeting of Climate Policy | Efficient real world climate policy must be heterogeneous across countries and industries. I will quantify the efficient distribution of carbon taxes and adaptation finance subsidies across the world. These estimates will inform policymakers where financing and capital should be directed to combat climate change. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Heffetz | Ori | Business | What’s a Price Worth? An Experimental Study of Prices and Preferences | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ||
Wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Political Turbulence, Entrepreneurial Processes, and Outcomes | Published in organization Science | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Howard | Chong | School of Hotel Administration | Disentangling the building from behavior in residential energy efficiency | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Garrick | Blalock | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Leveraging the Commercialization of Animal Bone-Derived Biofertilizers to Create Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Landless Poor in Ethiopia | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
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 | |
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 | |
Christopher B. | Barrett | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Avoiding and Escaping Persistent Poverty | This grant seeded work that ultimately led to 9 journal articles, 1 book, and >$3 mn in external funding. |
2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Christopher B. | Barrett | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Complementarities of Irrigation and Extension Services in Nepal | This project secured World Bank support. But the earthquake disrupted the policy experiment that was to be evaluated. So thus far, only baseline survey data collected. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises Evidence from New Historical Data, 1900-2015 | Research supported by this grant resulted in two publications: “Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017 (with Wei Xiong), and “Banking Crises Without Panics.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020 (with Emil Verner and Wei Xiong). | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Christopher B. | Barrett | 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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Arnab | Basu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Cooperative Membership and Preference Alteration: A Field Experiment on Trust, Time and Risk amongst Coffee Farmers in Colombia. | The paper is under review at the Journal of Economic Psychology. Follow-up funding was obtained from the British Academy in 2016 to undertake field experiments in Cote d’Ivoire. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Mortgage and Corporate Debt in the U.S. Great Depression | This project gathers data on individual U.S. firms and municipalities in the 1920s to assess the extent to which corporate and mortgage debt issuance and real estate construction helped precipitate the banking crises of the Great Depression. |
2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
Kathleen | O'Connor | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Chekitan | Dev | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Team Diversity and Financial Decision Making | This project lead to a publication in the Review of Behavioral Finance. Bogan et al. (2013) _Team Gender Diversity and Investment Decision Making Behavior_ Review of Behavioral Finance. 5 (2), 134-152. | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Vicki | Bogan | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Team Diversity and Financial Decision Making | This project lead to a publication in the Review of Behavioral Finance. Bogan et al. (2013) _Team Gender Diversity and Investment Decision Making Behavior_ Review of Behavioral Finance. 5 (2), 134-152. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Marketing and Management Communication | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Rogers | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
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 | |
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 |
Christopher B. | Barrett | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. |
2008-2011 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Michael | Roach | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
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 | |
Bradley | Rickard | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Estimating the Impact of Alternative Canopy Management Practices on White Wine Purchase Decisions | Led to a publication in the Journal of Agricultural Economics entitled the Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects, with B. Rickard and J. Taber, 2013. The research results were used extensively in Extension presentations in New York State. | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | "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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Chris K. | Anderson | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in 2010 at Cornell University | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Kristina | Rennekamp | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Novel Statistical Methods for Experimental Research Learning Group | This group brought Andrew Hayes to campus for a conditional process analysis workshop attended by faculty and PhD students. The methods from the workshop have been utilized in at least 3 publications, thus far. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Working Group Grant | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Intrinsic Motivation Shapes Resource Allocation | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Antonio | Bento | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Paying for Climate Change: The Role of Information and Social Preferences on Willingness to Pay | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Marquis | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Soo | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Psychological Insecurities, Disclosure, and Friend-Avoidance | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Will | Cong | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Interpretable AI and Big Data Analytics with Applications in Finance | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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