Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort ascending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | STEM Retention and Job Satisfaction in the COVID-19 Era | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI 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 |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Dividing Lines: School District Boundaries and the Geography of Unequal Opportunity | Rich’s fellowship enabled a major data collection effort to identify barriers to educational opportunity. A detailed block-level analysis reveals how much and where administrative policies create excess opportunity constraints for marginalized populations nationwide. Several research papers and a follow-up external grant proposal are in progress. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kosali | Simon | Policy Analysis and Management | Health Insurance and Changes in Marital Status | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Lovenheim | Policy Analysis and Management | School Quality Information and the Choice Environment: Evidence from Online School Search Behavior | This project led to a peer-reviewed publication in the Economics of Education Review. The paper has garnered attention and is having an impact on the literature. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Claudio | Lucarelli | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Adriana | Reyes | Policy Analysis and Management | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Dean R. | Lillard | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | Co-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 |
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 |
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 | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Child Custody Decisions in Disadvantaged Families: A Pilot Study | This small grant contributed to a larger USDA (NIFA) grant and several journal articles. The grant supported qualitative data collection and the analysis of survey data to examine why some disadvantaged families establish legal orders in court while others avoid the family court system. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | Fall | 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 | |
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 |
Laura | Tach | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | Choosing Neighborhoods, Choosing Schools: A Pilot Study of the Association between Neighborhood and School Composition | This collaborative demographic analysis resulted in the publication of “The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice” in _City and Community_ and “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods” in _Sociological Science_. | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Credit Card Reforms and Consumers' Use of Credit Cards | This research on the impact of CARD Act (2010) billing disclosure regulations on consumers’ debt payment behaviors was presented at multiple policy conferences and is published as “Effects of informational nudges on consumer debt repayment behaviors” in Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 16-33. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Enhancing the Community Impact of School-Based Health Centers in Rural New York | The ISS grant provided the necessary support to secure a data agreement between the Bassett (NY Healthcare system and Cornell’s CRADIC system. We are now analyzing nearly 4 million records over 7 years to measure the impact of SBHCs on the healthcare behavior of residents in five counties. We recently secured a Federal Hatch grant to continue our analyses in partnership with Bassett. | 2016 | 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 |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | Assessing the Consequences of Place-Based Policies for Communities and Individuals | Tach’s 2016 fellowship resulted in a $500,000 grant from the Gates Foundation, on which she is co-investigator, titled “Assessing the Impact of Place-Based and Place-Conscious Interventions on Economic Mobility.” Tach’s fellowship research also resulted in the publication of “Public Housing Redevelopment, Neighborhood Change, and the Restructuring of Urban Inequality” in the American Journal of Sociology. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Elizabeth | Peters | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Representation and Visual Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs | The 2018 fellowship allowed Zhuan Pei to start the project, and he has recently completed a working paper with coauthors. Through the fellowship, Zhuan met Prof. Sahara Byrne, who generously gave him access to her eyetracking lab for the project. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Maria | Fitzpatrick | Policy Analysis and Management | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Rosemary | Avery | Policy Analysis and Management | Smoking Cessation Advertisements and Source Credibility | The project eventually led to two NIH grants and many publications on tobacco warning labels and advertising. | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Working Group Grant | |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | The Foreclosure Crisis and Racial Residential Stratification | Led to publication of a paper in the American Sociological Review and another in the ANNALS. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rosemary | Avery | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | CCSS funds went towards purchasing advertising data used for pilot analyses included in an NIH/AHRQ grant proposal, “Direct and Indirect Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” Avery (Cornell PI), Eisenberg (JHU), Sood (USC), Alpert (UPenn), and Niederdeppe (Cornell), which received four years of funding May 2018. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Pauline | Leung | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans | A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. |
2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Tatiana | Homonoff | Policy Analysis and Management | The Nth of the Month Effect: Consumer and Retailer Response to SNAP Benefit | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Kimberly | Kopko | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Hyuncheol | Kim | Policy Analysis and Management | Promoting Healthy Eating among Poor Children: Information, Affordability, and Accessibility on Food Consumption in Ethiopia | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Response to the Withdrawal of Prescription Drugs | This project, which examined how consumers respond when prescription drugs were pulled from the market, resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. It also led to further collaboration, and two subsequent publications on related topics, with the same coauthor. | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Samuel | Kleiner | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Physician Referral Patterns | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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