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 descending | Grant Type |
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Woo Bin | Kim | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | CCSS Grant | ||
Pauline | Leung | Brooks School of Public Policy | The Effects of Work and Financial Assistance Policies on Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from Welfare Reform Experiments | We examine the long-term effects of welfare-to-work policies by following up on five randomized experiments conducted in the nineties. We link the experimental data to a rich array of datasets held at the U.S. Census Bureau to understand the comprehensive economic and demographic impacts on welfare recipients and their children over a time horizon spanning more than 20 years. |
2022-2023 | PI | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Hannah | Friedrich | 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 | CCSS Grant | ||
David | Levine | Can an Improved Sales Contract Speed Adoption of Improved Stoves? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Berkeley | CCSS Grant | ||
Alexander | Ljungqvist | 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 | Co-PI | NYU | CCSS Grant | |
Caezilia | Loibl | 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 | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
Ahmad | Sikainga | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Neblo | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | ||
Maria Vignau | Loria | Sociology | 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 | University of Washington | Working Group Grant | |
Archie | Luyimbazi | Tune in to Governance. An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Makerere University | CCSS Grant | ||
Catherine | Maclean | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | ||
Christopher | Wlezien | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Kamel | Jedid | Leveraging Generative AI for Marketing Research: An Application on Music Album Reviews | The capabilities of Generative AI to extract thematic content from unstructured data make it powerful to understand experiential domains. This research leverages this technology to extract experiential features from expert music reviews to enhance our understanding of album success and aid artists in their designs. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | 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 | Co-PI | Columbia University | Collaborative Project | ||
Gregory | Mann | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | |
Karuna | Mantena | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Michael | Manville | Luskin School of Public Affairs | American Travel Behavior and the Macroeconomy: A Longer View | Manvilleís 2016 fellowship helped him complete two journal articles, and also led to a productive collaboration with ISS fellow Adam Levine, resulting in an additional journal article. | 2015-2016 | PI | UCLA | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | PI | U.S. Department of State | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Tom | Medvetz | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | University of California San Diego | Collaborative Project | ||
Karel | Mertens | Escaping the Liquidity Trap | 2012-2013 | PI | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
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 | ||
Jeremy | Nemeth | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Colorado | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Rubineau | Gendered Peer Effects in Cornell College of Engineering | 2012-2013 | PI | McGill University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
R. Nathan | Spreng | Psychology | Neurocognitive Aging and Wisdom | 2015-2016 | PI | McGill University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Brian | Rubineau | Organizational Behavior | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | PI | McGill University | CCSS Grant | |
Emily | Owens | 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 | Co-PI | University of Pennsylvania | Collaborative Project | ||
Adam | Pearson | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Pomona College | 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 |
Krista | Perreira | Social Medicine | 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 | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Working Group Grant | |
Stefan | Pichler | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | ETH Zurich | CCSS Grant | ||
Eva | Pressman | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Rochester | CCSS Grant | |
Joseph | Price | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Brigham Young University | CCSS Grant | ||
Victoria | Prowse | Economics | Income Redistribution through Defined Benefit Pension systems when Life Expectancy is Heterogenous | 2015-2016 | PI | Purdue University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Justin | Rao | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Yahoo Research | CCSS Grant | ||
Morten | Ravn | The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | University of London | CCSS Grant | ||
Quinetta | Roberson | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Villanova University | CCSS Grant | |
Joseph | Sabia | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | American University | CCSS Grant | ||
Tina | Saksida | Business | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Prince Edward Island | CCSS Grant | |
Moritz | Schularick | "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 | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
Kaspar | Zimmerman | "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 | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
Sawa | Senzaki | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Wisconsin Green Bay | CCSS Grant | |
Jesse | Shapiro | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Chicago | CCSS Grant | ||
Yi | Shen | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Waterloo | CCSS Grant | ||
Wendy | Smith | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Alfred Lerner College | CCSS Grant | ||
Susan | Spronk | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | University of Ottawa | Collaborative Project | ||
Mary | Still | 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 | University of Massachusetts Boston | Collaborative Project | ||
Fabio | Trecca | Linguistics Cognitive Science and Semiotics | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Aarhus University | CCSS Grant | |
Liana | Victorino | A Systematic Assessment of Service Scripts in the Hospitality Industry | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Victoria | CCSS Grant | ||
Joshua | Linn | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Maryland |
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