Population Center Grants: Pilot Grants
Each year affiliates and other faculty with PI status may apply for a pilot grant for seed or 'risky' research projects. We seek to encourage innovative research that is 'risky' in the sense that the researcher has uncertainty about the form of the results. Proposed research should also be aligned with our signature themes of Population Health, Labor, Immigration and Family. These grants allot for up to $20,000, and are funded in collaboration with the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA), and the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Program
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Past Awards--2008-2009
- Denise Herd. "The Impact of Neighborhoods, Alcohol Outlets and Violence on Health Disparities in Low Birth Weight among African American, Hispanic and White Women in California" (Co-funded with RWJ).
- Enrico Moretti. "Changes in Income Inequality and Cost of Living." (Co-funded with RWJ)
- Elisabeth Sadoulet. "Returns to Reproductive Health Care." (Co-funded with CHR).
- Claude Fischer. "Social Networks and the Later Life Cycle."
- Lia Fernald, Jenna Nobles. "Children's Growth in Changing Nutritional and Economic Environments: Using Longitudinal Data from the Oportunidades/PROGRESA Program." (Co-funded with RWJ).
- Irene Bloemraad. "Building a Web Resource of Available Datasets with Migration Data."
- Ann Swidler Thornton, Dorothy and Sylvia Guendelman. "Obstetric Complications and Preterm Delivery in Californian Women with Depression." (Co-funded with RWJ)
- Edward Miguel. "Impacts of Youth Vocational Education in Kenya."
- Kaja LeWinn. "Social status, neurobiological correlates of emotion regulation, and physiological reactivity: understanding how the subjective experience of social class is biologically embodied." (Co-funded with RWJ).
- Julian Chow. "Integration of Welfare, Mental Health, and Workforce Development for Asian Immigrant Welfare Users."
- David Levine. "Improved Stoves for Health and Environmental Sustainability."
- Jonathan Simon. "Youth Violence and Neighborhood Change: New Immigrants in Oakland, California."