Past Grantees and Fellows

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. 

This archaeological excavation examines the impact of the Roman conquest on ancient households at Pompeii, a city originally governed by a non-Roman Italic people. This critical analysis of domestic space intervenes in archaeological and anthropological discourse on imperialism, inequality, and identity in the ancient Mediterranean.

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.

This small grant generated multiple peer-reviewed articles, in for example World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Economic & Political Weekly.

This grant seeded work that ultimately led to 9 journal articles, 1 book, and >$3 mn in external funding.

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. 

Mass shootings have steadily increased in the United States, where more than 600 of such incidents now occur each year (Gun Violence Archive 2023). A majority of both Democrats and Republicans in fact support a number of gun reform policies. But at the elite level, Republican lawmakers are reluctant to pursue gun reform legislation, often offering condolences or shifting attention away from firearm policy toward other, more distant policy areas, such as mental health or unchecked criminal activity. To what extent does exposure to such rhetoric by Republican lawmakers re-shape public support for gun reform policies? We propose a survey experiment to examine how exposure to alternative rhetorics by Republican lawmakers about a mass shooting incident shapes public support toward several gun reform policies.

This project: puts forward a semi-nonparametric empirical model of discrete choice with limited consideration; characterizes what can be learned about the parameters and distribution functions; provides methods to build and test confidence intervals; applies the previous to household decision making under risk.

Barseghyan's fellowship helped him to establish a new collaborative research agenda on limited consideration ñ situations in which consumers evaluate and choose from a limited number of all alternatives (products) available to them. This research is being supported by an NSF grant in the amount of $400,000.

This multidisciplinary conference discussed the role that government plays in generating economic growth in the developing world, bringing together scholars and policy-makers. 

The investigators involved with the American State Constitutions Project collected, digitized, and coded all ratified and proposed state constitutions, as well as state legislative petitions for the 19th century, and all state Bills of Rights from 1788 to the late 20th century. 

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.

This project synthesizes concepts from political science and computational linguistics to guide the development of tools valuable for their capacity to promote critical thinking about how controversial issues are variously framed by different parties. 

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.

This project resulted in the publication: Rokito, S., Choi, Y.H., Taylor, S. H., & Bazarova, N. N. "Over-gratified, Under-Gratified, or Just Right? Applying the Gratification Discrepancy Approach to Investigate Recurrent Facebook Use." Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 76-83. (2018).

Research findings from this project will advance knowledge of why the integration of mobile phones and social media into everyday life matters for subjective well-being and will have implications for designing systems that encourage subjective well-being.

This fellowship has resulted in a new line of work on bystander interventions conducted with a novel experimental simulation platform developed in Prof. Bazarova's Social Media Lab. This led to several new publications in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

This project has resulted in 5 publications examining cross-cultural dynamics in group collaboration, with a focus on expertise recognition, communication accommodation, influence processes, and language proficiency.

Did stimulus checks change low-income consumers' use of predatory financial services? I interview payday loan borrowers in New York and Michigan to ask about their experience using alternative financial products and about their use of the stimulus checks.

The Civic Playground Project seeks to empower individuals of different backgrounds, languages, and abilities through shared modes of making and collaborative play. The project is anchored in the development and deployment of inclusive frameworks that foster engagement between communities and their built environments.

Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.