Research Grants

Do non-experimental methods provide a viable alternative to randomized experiments when trying to assess the effects of neighborhood on youth outcomes?

To support a pilot study aimed at informing a larger proposed National Institute of Child Health & Human Development project by collecting middle and high school yearbooks from schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).

To support a project aimed at examining what works to evaluate to create positive change in large, public child welfare agencies serving extremely vulnerable, low-income children and youth.

Does the use of a structured, computer-centered reading program in after-school settings affect reading performance? What are the factors that affect the implementation of the intervention?

How does poverty affect youth development in rural areas? What physical and psychosocial factors in children’s homes and communities explain why some children do well while others do poorly?

To support a project that will examine the degree, if any, of affirmative action for men in selective college admissions.

Funds to identify a school district to include in a randomized study of Making Meaning Reading Comprehension program.

What predicts what children understand about the everyday economic world? What is the role of children’s family and community-related experience in the development of their economic understanding?

To contribute to a special investment fund that would support talented and promising scholars as they undertake path-breaking work on research methods, write articles summarizing and disseminating lessons from ongoing and completed projects, and participate in workshops and other activities ...

Which of the different dimensions of research abstracts are most likely to capture the attention of policymakers?