Faculty Grants

Lee Alston is the Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation Grant entitled “Land Differentiation, Land Conflict and the Decline of Agricultural Tenancy in Brazil” (with Bernardo Mueller). The amount under negotiation will be in the $235,000 to $475,000 range.

Jose Canals-Cerda has received two grants for the 2004–2005 academic year: A spring 2005 grant from the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences, Univer - sity of Colorado, in the amount of $1000; and a summer 2005 research grant from the Net Institute at the Stern School of Business, New York University, in the amount of $4,500.

Ann M. Carlos is the Co-principal Investigator with several colleagues: Professor Larry Neal, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, National Science Foundation, “How the First Emerging Market Re-emerged after Financial Collapse, 2002–2006; Professor Frank Lewis, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Per Capita Incomes and Population in the Canadian Sub-Arctic in the Eighteenth Century,” 2004–2007; Professor Price Fish - back, University of Arizona, National Science Foundation Grant, “Cliometrics Conference,” 2006–2008.

Nicholas Flores is the Principal Investigator for the following four grants: “Economic and Multicriteria Analysis of River Restoration Decisions, “ National Science Foundation, 2005– 2007 ($123,750); “The Evaluation of Preferences for Land Management Options,” U.S. Forest Service, 2004–2007 ($30,000); “Collaborative Research: Neighborhood Choice, Environmental Justice, and Policy Analysis,” National Science Foundation, 2003–2006 ($206,967); “Institutions and Incentives for Mitigating Wildfire Risks,” U.S. Forest Service, 2003–2005 ($119,500).

Mushfiq Mobarak is the Principal Investigator for the following grants: National Science Foundation (NSF), “Human and Social Dynamics” Competition, $450,000 grant, 2005–2008, Murat Iyigun, Co-principal Investigator, for research on “Socio-economic and Biological Trade-offs of Consanguinity in an Arranged Marriage Market: Evidence from Bangladesh” (with A. Bittles, M. Iyigun, N. Khan); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), “Innovation Policy and the Economy” $20,000 grant, 2005–2006, Keith Maskus, Co-principal Investigator, for research on “The Impact of Immigration Policy and Foreign Graduate Students on Innovation in the U.S.: Evidence from Enrollment Shocks” (with Keith Maskus and Eric Stuen).

Carol Shiue is the Principal Investigator for the National Institutes of Health, 2002–2006 Grant, $149,750, “Intergenerational and Interfamily Economic Links.” She is the Coprincipal Investigator with Wolfgang Keller for the National Science Foundation, 2005–2008 grant, $266,182, “What Explains Modern Economic Growth? New Evidence from a Comparison of China and Europe in the 18th Century.” Additionally she is the Coprincipal Investigator for the Metanexus Institute, 2005–2007 grant, $500,000, “Project on Religion and Economic Change,” (with Robert D. Woodberry, Mark D. Regnerus, Joseph E. Potter, Virginia Garrard-Burnett, and Daniel Powers).

Randall Walsh has the following current grants: Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2005–2006, “Conservation Voted: What is the American electorate revealing?”, $90,000, with resources for the future; National Science Foundation, 2003–2006, “Collaborative Research: Neighborhood Choice, Environmental Justice, and Policy Analysis,” $206,967, with Nicholas Flores.
     Randy also has a pending grant from NSF— Human and Social Dynamics, 2006–2008, “Collaborative Research: Household and Community Response to Wildfire Risk: Social and Landscape Dynamics,” $243,444, with Nicholas Flores.
     This fall Randy plans to submit a grant proposal to the National Institute for Health/National Institute for Childhood Development— R03, 2006–2007, “Distributional Impacts of Neighborhood Change,” $50,000 plus overhead expenses, with Terra McKinnish.

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