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 |
