Recent Grants
Up one levelE85 Station Entry: Implications for Alternative Fuel Policy & Firm Stategy
Awarded to Christopher Knittel, Chevron Technology Ventures/UCD, $126,571
Transportation Fuels & Carbon Markets: How Might a Carbon-based Trading System Develop?
Awarded to Christopher Knittel, Chevron Technology Ventures/UCD, $78,956
The Network of Nations: The Evolution of International Relations, 1816 - 2005
Awarded to Zeev Maoz, Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation, $17,884
Who Manages? Analyzing Third Party Identity & Performance in Low Level Intrastate Conflict
Awarded to Molly Melin (graduate student), The Folke Bernadotte Academy, $7,277
The Role of Community-Based Organizations in the Lives of Immigrant & Second Generation Youth
Awarded to Dina Okamoto, William T. Grant Foundation, $350,000
California Agricultural Mechanization: Lessons from the Past & Prospects for the Future
Awarded to Alan Olmstead, Giannini Foundation, $12,810
IGCC Campus Program at UC Davis: Block Grant 2007-08
Awarded to Alan Olmstead, Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation, $18,000
Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: A Plan for Research & Policy Recommendations to Revisit the Current View on the International Mobility of Labor
Awarded to Giovanni Peri, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, $166,000
Games with Unawareness: Theory & Applications
Awarded to Burkhard Schipper, National Science Foundation, $111,375
Institutional Innovations in Financing & Performing Public Agricultural R&D: Lessons for the United States
Awarded to Julian Alston, U.S. Department of Agriculture, $150,000
The Hidden Developmental State in the United States
Awarded to Fred Block, Ford Foundation, $200,000
Raising College Students' Grades: A Controlled Experiment in Peer Effects
Awarded to Scott Carrell, National Academy of Education (NAE) Spencer Fellowship, $55,000
Why & When do Civil War Dispute Resolution Efforts Do Poorly?
Awarded to Scott Gartner, Folke Bernadotte Academy, $15,200
Stimulating Research & Discovery in the Study of Religion
Awarded to Zeev Maoz, Pennsylvania State University/Templeton Foundation, $121,438
Are Recessions Really Good for Your Health?
Awarded to Douglas Miller, Marianne Page & Ann Stevens, Center for the Economics & Demographics of Aging UC Berkeley, $27,670
The Civic & Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Non-Traditional Destinations
Awarded to Dina Okamoto, Russell Sage Foundation, $165,835
The Role of Community-Based Organizations in the Lives of Immigrant & Second Generation Youth-Supplemental Award
Awarded to Dina Okamoto & Melanie Jones, William T. Grant Foundation $60,000
Retirement Wealth Across Cohorts: The Role of Earnings Inequality & Pension Changes
Awarded to Ann Stevens, Retirement Research Center University of Michigan, $50,000
Rural Economies of the Americas Program (REAP)
Awarded to J. Edward Taylor, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, $500,000
Policy Watch Seminar: Miroslav Nincic
Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Information, Communication & Political Learning