Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort descending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Henry | Schneider | Economics | Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Claire | Lim | Economics | The Political Economy of the Energy Industry in U.S States | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Huckfeldt | Economics | The Scarring Effect of Recessions: A Quantitative Analysis | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Levon | Barseghyan | Economics | Expected Utility Theory Through the Lens of Insurance Data | Led to a publication in American Economic Review: “Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data,” with J. Prince and J. Teitelbaum, April 2011. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christa | Deneault | Economics | The Efficacy of For-profit Teacher Training Programs | To combat teacher shortages, a growing number of states are allowing teachers to complete training programs at for-profit companies. This project explores the efficacy of for-profit training programs by examining their impacts on the quantity and quality of teachers in Texas. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Nicolas | Bottan | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Eleonora | Patacchini | Economics | Polarized Beliefs and Discrimination | The grant led to the paper “Professional Interactions and Hiring Decisions: Evidence from the Federal Judiciary (NBER Working Paper 26726). This is a highly influential paper, as proved by the fact that it was profiled by the NBER Digest (May 2020 issue). | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technology | During the 2020-2021 academic year the first draft of Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change was completed and submitted for publication. The paper was presented at various workshops including the NBER SI 2020. A sequel to this paper, Technical Change and the Demand for Talent, has been accepted for publication at the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU series of the Journal of Monetary Economics in 2022. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Thinking Big: Workshop on Macro-Development Policy | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Levon | Barseghyan | Economics | Estimating Risk Preferences with Limited Consideration | 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. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Nicholas | Sanders | Economics | Environmental Justice and the Differential Effects of Pollution: The Role of Place, Income, and Resources | Nicholas Sanders produced research on influenza, pollution, and related health effects by socioeconomic status, to be published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He prepared research on lead exposure and educational outcomes by race, which he is in process of revising for publication. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Joseph | Price | Economics | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shooshan | Danagoulian | Economics | Health Insurance Choice and Utilization | This award supported the dissertation research of Shooshan Danagoulian. Her dissertation has led to 2 papers in peer-reviewed journals -- Health Economics 2018, and the International Journal of Health Economics 2018. | 2012 | Spring | Co-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 | |
James | Berry | Economics | Clean Water, Health, and the Market Mechanism: How Effective is the Market at Allocating Health Goods? | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Benjamin | Economics | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Eleonora | Patacchini | Economics | Machine Learning for Prediction of Tax Evasion | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Abowd | Economics | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Hongyuan | Xia | Economics | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Aaron | Bodoh-Creed | Economics | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory. |
2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Evan | Riehl | Economics | The Efficacy of For-profit Teacher Training Programs | To combat teacher shortages, a growing number of states are allowing teachers to complete training programs at for-profit companies. This project explores the efficacy of for-profit training programs by examining their impacts on the quantity and quality of teachers in Texas. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Larry | Blume | Economics | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Kaushik | Basu | Economics | Thinking Big: Workshop on Macro-Development Policy | This multidisciplinary conference discussed the role that government plays in generating economic growth in the developing world, bringing together scholars and policy-makers. |
2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marco | Battaglini | Economics | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Prince | Economics | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Kristoffer | Nimark | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network | The research supported by this grant has been presented at 25 conferences and seminars. Further publications are pending. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Evan | Riehl | Economics | Minority Hiring Quotes and Worker/Firm Match Quality: Evidence from Brazil | The research supported by this grant has been developed into two workings papers that analyze policies that aim reduce inequality by improving the matching of students to colleges and firms. Publication of these papers is pending. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Elisa | Keller | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Exeter Business School | CCSS Grant |
David | Jaume | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ori | Heffetz | Economics | What's a Price Worth? An Experimental Study of Prices and Preferences | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Levon | Barseghyan | Economics | Preference Types and Welfare in Insurance Markets | Barseghyanís 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. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Returns to Mechanization through Rental Equipment Markets | We build the first direct measures of capital-embodied technical change (CETC) as well as of the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital at the occupational level, www.capitalbyoccupation.weebly.com. One paper has been submitted for publication and another is forthcoming at the JME. |
2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jörg | Stoye | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Bineet | Mishra | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
Ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Panle | Barwick | Economics | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
David | Easley | Economics | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Victoria | Prowse | Economics | Income Redistribution through Defined Benefit Pension systems when Life Expectancy is Heterogenous | 2015-2016 | PI | Purdue University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Dynamic Propagation in Production Networks | It takes time to move intermediate inputs along supply chains. The goal of this paper is to integrate this fact in a modern production network macroeconomic model and to evaluate its importance for the dynamic propagation of shocks. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sharon | Tennyson | Economics, Brooks School of Public Policy | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lin | Le | Government | Save Socialism in the Name of the People: Factionalism, Ideology and Populism in Authoritarian China | This research seeks to reconstruct the historical process of political struggle and ideological contestation in the late Hu Jintao-era, during which Bo Xilai’s political maneuvering interacted with the dynamics of factional politics in those critical years leading up to Xi Jinping’s strongman rule. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Adi | Rao | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Mass Politics and Policy in Russia and China | The edited volume that emerged from the workshop was published this year by Oxford University Press, titled: Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China. |
2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Choosing Chains? On the Incarceration of FLN Offspring in French Prisons and Intifada Offspring in Israeli Prisons | To what extent do intergenerational traumas shape and inform experiences of imprisonment? Le Penne delves into the trauma generated by the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) and the Intifadas (1987 and 2000) to examine its impact on the Algerian and Palestinian experiences of incarceration today. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Yamile | Guibert | Government | The Politics of Accountability: Party Strength, Patronage, and the State in Latin America | This project seeks to understand the conditions under which Latin American politicians at the highest levels of power are held accountable after accusations of corruption arise. By focusing on the Odebrecht scandal, this project emphasizes the role of the strategies of politicians and political parties. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarian Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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