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Seed Grant Recipients
2019
Patricia Bromley
Education, PACS, Seed Grant
Reformism: The Causes and Consequences of National Education Reform Worldwide, 1970-2016
Saad Gulzar
Political Science, Seed Grant
Poverty and Hate: The Causal Effect of Economic Distress on Xenophobia
Lochlann Jain
Anthropology, Seed Grant
The Long Fortuitous Rise and Quick Descent of Heptavax-B (1960-1985)
Clayton Nall
Political Science, Seed Grant
Where Interests Trump Ideology: Addressing Suburban Liberals' Support for Exclusionary Local Housing Policies
Krish Seetah
Anthropology, Seed Grant
Integrating Archaeo-Historic, Climatic, and Genomic Data for Comparative Malaria Modeling
2018
Lisa Blaydes
Political Science, Freeman Spogli Institute
Political, Economic, and Social Change on the Arabian Penninsula: A Longitudinal Study of GCC Citizens.
Ben Domingue
Education, RA Internship
Sociogenomics at Stanford.
Jeremy Freese
Sociology, CPI
Sociogenomics at Stanford.
Jackelyn Hwang
Sociology
Using Computer Vision to Measure Neighborhood Variables Affecting Health.
Shanto Iyengar
William Robertson Coe Professor, Professor of Communication and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution, Co-PI of the American National Election Studies
The American National Election Studies
Francisco Ramirez
Graduate School of Education, Sociology
Diversifying the American Higher Education System.
Mitchell Stevens
Graduate School of Education, Sociology
A Distributed Program for Studying College Pathways.
2017
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Freeman Spogli Institute
The Problem of Police Violence
Vicky Fouka
Political Science
The Role of History and Family Experience in Shaping Xenophobic Attitudes
Jeff Hancock
Communication, REP
Social Robots as Media
Ian Hodder
Anthropology
Virtually Rebuilding Catalhoyuk
Shanto Iyengar
Political Science
Divided we Stand: Partisan Media, Selective Exposure, and Political Polarization
Brian Knutson
Psychology
Cultural Neuroscience of Trust and Resource Sharing
Beatriz Magaloni
Political Science, CGE
The Problem of Police Violence
Francisco Ramirez
Education
World Gender Database
Byron Reeves
Communication
Social Robots as Media
Jeanne Tsai
Psychology
Cultural Neuroscience of Trust and Resource Sharing
Christine Wotipka
Education
World Gender Database
2016
Andrew Hall
Political Science
Interactive Visualizations of Political Information in Large Datasets of Text
Lochlann Jain
Anthropology
The Making of HIV Origins: How Science Makes Its History
Krish Seetah
Anthropology
Improving Malaria 'Early Warning' Predictive Materials: A Proof-of-Concept Using Archaeohistoric and Climate Data
2015
Arun Chandrasekhar
Department of Economics
Email:
arungc@stanford.edu
Optimizing Network Referrals to Identify and Recruit Creditworthy Entrepreneurs
Jens Hainmueller
Faculty Co-Director, Immigration Policy Lab, Department of Political Science
Email:
jhain@stanford.edu
Immigration and Integration Policy: Causal Inference and the Evaluation of Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA)
Brian Knutson
Department of Psychology
Email:
knutson@psych.stanford.edu
Cultural Neuroscience of Trust: The Role of Emotion
David Laitin
Faculty Co-Director, Immigration Policy Lab, Department of Political Science
Email:
dlaitin@stanford.edu
Immigration and Integration Policy: Causal Inference and the Evaluation of Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA)
Mitchell Stevens
Education, RA Internship
A Fund for Scientific Research through Online Learning Environments
Jeanne Tsai
Department of Psychology
Email:
jeanne.tsai@stanford.edu
Cultural Neuroscience of Trust: The Role of Emotion
Barbara Voss
Anthropology, CGE
Email:
bvoss@stanford.edu
The Archaeology of Transpacific Migration: Wuyi Qiaoxiang Archaeology Project, Guangdong, China
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
Gavin Wright
Economics
The Southern Character of Black Occupational Progress
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
Krish Seetah
Anthropology
Religion and Social Life in Mauritius: the Long Duree Perspective
Kabir Tambar
Anthropology, CGE
he Polemics of Humanity: Civil Disobedience and Political Disidentification in Turkey
2012
Nicholas Bloom
William Eberle Professor of Economics, CPI, RDC
“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, CPI
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, CPI
"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
"What Do You Mean by That?”: Agentic Feedback as a Way to Bolster Teacher Beliefs in Black Student Potential
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