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Past Seed Grant Recipients

2014

Timothy Bresnahan

Economics
International Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Mobile Apps

Geoffrey Cohen

Education
Mood Map and Text-Based Affirmation App

Corey Fields

Sociology
Playing the Field, Desperately Looking, or Permanent Singleton: Exploring Explanations for Singleness

Kalina Manova

Economics
Management Practices and International Trade

Paolo Parigi

Sociology
Toward an Applied Social Science: A Proposal for a Collaboration Between Sociology and Civil and Environmental Engineering

Cristobal Young

Sociology
Millionaire Migration and the Demography of the Elite: Implications for American Tax Policy

2013

Rebecca Bird

Anthropology
An indigenous food web for the Western Desert of Australia: integrating social and ecological sciences for biodiversity conservation

Aliya Saperstein

Sociology
Surveying the Surveyors: Trends in measurement and knowledge production in U.S. social surveys
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Krish Seetah

Anthropology
Religion and Social Life in Mauritius: the Long Duree Perspective
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Kabir Tambar

Anthropology
he Polemics of Humanity: Civil Disobedience and Political Disidentification in Turkey

2012

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Nick Bloom

Associate Professor of Economics
“Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Corporate Experiment”

Angela Garcia

Anthropology
Gifts of the Spirit, Technologies of the State: Addiction, Regulation and Care among Pentecostal-charismatics in Mexico City, Mexico

Matthew Harding

Economics
Food Purchases, Nutrition and Obesity: A Nationally Representative Study

Sean Reardon

Education, Sociology (by courtesy)
Income Segregation and Political Polarization

Jonathan Rodden

Political Science
Income Segregation and Political Polarization

Jonathan Wand

Political Science
Unifying the Study of Legislative Actions and Federal Spending

2011

Lisa Blaydes

Political Science
Repression, Resistance and Regime Durability in Authoritarian Iraq

Walter Powell

School of Education
Rewarding Performance That Is Hard to Measure: The Diffusion and Impact of Metrics and Evaluation in the Nonprofit Sector

Florian Scheuer

Economics
Optimal Income Taxation in Economies with Rent Seeking

Xueguang Zhou

Sociology
Elite Mobility and the Intra-organizational Relationship in the Chinese Bureaucratic State

2010

Tanya Luhrmann

Anthropology
Comparative Study of Hallucinatory Phenomena in Psychosis in the United States and India

Aprajit Mahajan

Economics
Can Better Management Raise Growth and Reduce Pollution?

2009

Giacomo DeGiorgi

Economics
"Climate Change: the Effects of Changes in Uncertainty on Consumption, Savings and Investment"

Paula England

Sociology
Class Differences in Contraception and Unplanned Pregnancies

Tomás Jiménez

Sociology
Immigration, Assimilation and the U.S. Host Society

Luigi Pistaferri

Economics
"Climate Change: the Effects of Changes in Uncertainty on Consumption, Savings and Investment"

2008

Melissa Brown

Anthropology
Chinese Marriage Forms, Son Preferences, and Sex Ratios: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to a Major Demographic and Cultural Problem

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros

Political Science
The Geographic Distribution of Income and Political Preferences

Jennifer Eberhardt

Psychology
The Continued Dehumanization of Blacks in the Modern Era

Marcus Feldman

Biology
Chinese Marriage Forms, Son Preferences, and Sex Ratios: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to a Major Demographic and Cultural Problem

Max Floetotto

Economics
"Really Uncertain Business Cycles"

Nir Jaimovich

Economics
"Really Uncertain Business Cycles"

Petra Moser

Economics
Regulation in Financial Markets: Evidence from Specialists' Willingness to Pay for NYSE Seats - 1883 to 1978

Susan Olzak

Sociology
Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement

Rob Reich

Political Science
Support for the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society proposal to the Hewlett Foundation

Michael Rosenfeld

Sociology
A Longitudinal Study of Couple Formation and Dissolution