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CIDER awards 21 projects small grants funding

November 17, 2020 | Tagged: Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research, CIDER

The Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research is pleased to announce the recipients of the sixth round of their small grants competition.

See below for a full list of the funded projects.

Project # Primary Applicant Name Other applicant name Project Title Amount (in CAD)
118 Siwan Anderson Patrick Francois Pilot Study – On-line Training for Politicians  $13,000.00
119 Nicole Fortin Yige Duan Changing Skill Requirements in the Age of AI  $37,500 (jointly with Gallipoli)
120 Will Gornall Ilya Strebulaev Automated gathering of venture capital financial data  $10,000.00
121 Mahesh Nagarajan Yige Duan, VSE PhD
Yiwen Jin, Sauder PhD
The Cost and Impact of Task Switching: Analysis Using Data from Emergency Departments  $12,000.00
122 Mukesh Eswaran – The Roles of Political, Racial, and Religious Ideologies in Mass Killings:
Evidence from 1800-2020
 $3,200.00
125 Francesco Trebbi Federico Ricca The Political Economy of Municipal Debt  $15,000.00
126 David Green Ronit Mukherji Automation and Union Rates  $4,000.00
127 Claudio Ferraz Xiaojun Guan Corporate Innovation and Political Connections  $3,900.00
128 Giovanni Gallipoli Mila Markevych Who is Binging on Cognitive and Non-Routine Tasks? Implications for Job Polarization
and Inequality
 $37500 (jointly with Fortin)
129 Claudio Ferraz Francisco Eslava Public Procurement and Political Networks  $15,040.00
130 Claudio Ferraz Erin Litzow The affordability challenge: Evaluating the role of consumer-targeted subsidies in alleviating energy poverty  $10,590.00
131 Claudio Ferraz Vinicius Pecanha, VSE PhD;
Pedro Pessoa, VSE PhD
 Mapping Criminal Organizations in Brazil  $11,100.00
132 Jesse Perla – Conversion of Course Materials for Online Computational Textbooks  $6,000.00
134 Matt Lowe Leonardo Bursztyn, Univ of Chicago;
Frank Schibach (MIT)
Tailoring Social Media  $24,000.00
135 Wei Li Deivis Angeli, VSE PhD Moral Philosophy and Economic Behavior  $9,975.00
136 Sam Hwang Oguz Bayraktar, University of Chicago PhD;
Ali Hortacsu (University of Chicago), Divya Mathur (Analysis Group)
The effect of arranged marriage on endogamy in India  $8,000.00
138 Felipe Valencia Caicedo Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay)
Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Luis Roberto Martínez (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago)
Juan David Torres (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
The Origins of State Capacity: Evidence from Colonial Latin America  $18,000.00
139 Jamie McCasland – Small Enterprise Emergency Financial Assistance (SEEFA)  $15,000.00
140 Munir Squires Gabriel Brown, VSE PhD;
Pedro Pessoa, VSE PhD
Beliefs and behaviour in a COVID-19 information vacuum: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
COVID-19 information vacuum: Experimental
evidence from Tanzania
 $13,800.00
141 Munir Squires Noam Yuchtman (LSE);
David Yang (Harvard)
Does factory work make you WEIRD?: Experimental Evidence from a Garment Factory in
Tanzania
 $24,545.00
142 Munir Squires Sam Hwang;
Arkadev Ghosh, VSE PhD
Kinship and democracy  $13,000.00
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