Introduction

Most faculty research is funded by extramural grants—that is, by sources outside the UC Berkeley campus.  IBER is currently home to over 60 projects funded by extramural grants, with a book value of over $28 million.  These grants are listed below, and in most cases there is a link to an abstract.  For our principal research centers, a link is provided to the particular Center.

A few of these “awards” involve not the contribution of outside funds but of something almost as precious—data.  Access to sensitive data from the Census Bureau, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or the Panel Study of Income Dynamics housed at the University of Michigan all require elaborate terms-of-use agreements and are treated by the campus as “extramural awards.”

A modest amount of research is funded from sources internal to the University, often through departmental funds, such as Xlab mini-grants or departmental support for faculty summer research salaries. Research funded through IBER mini-grants is described separately.

Research Projects

Research Projects by Researcher Surname:
        A-D    /    E-G    /    H-K    /    L-M    /    N-S    /    T-Z

A-D

Combinatorial Voting	Ahn, David Sehun and Santiago Oliverso	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaborative Research: Models of Unawareness and Ambiguity	Ahn, David Sehun	National Science Foundation (NSF)
EFRI-RESIN: Assessing and Managing Cascading Failure Vulnerabilities of Complex, Interdependent, Interactive, Adaptive Human-Based Infrastructure	Bea, Robert	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Selection in Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations	Catalano, Ralph A	California Department of Public Health
Collaborative Research: Exchange Network Transition: Uncertainty, Risk and Shifts in Mode of Transition	Cheshire, Coye	Stanford University
Measuring the Cost of Environmental Health Risks: Evidence from Neighborhoods Near Power Plants	Davis, Lucas	National Institute of Environmental Health Science
World Development Report 2008: Agriculture and Development	De Janvry, Alain	Ford Foundation
Collective Action for Smallholders to Achieve Sustainable Market Access in High Value Activities in West Africa	De Janvry, Alain	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Agriculture Technology Adoption Initiative	De Janvry, Alain	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Using Agriculture for Adolescent Girl Welfare	De Janvry, Alain	Nike Foundation
The Psychology of Corruption: Moral Reminders, Social Preferences and the Kenyan Postal Service	DellaVigna, Stefano	Russell Sage Foundation
Berkeley Population Center	Dow, William H	NIH National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Costa Rican Health and Retirement Survey	Dow, William H	National Institute on Aging (NIH)
HIV Screening Take-Up: Evaluating Incentives and Opt-Out Strategies	Dow, William H	National Institute on Aging (NIH)
Poverty, Gender Inequalities, and Sexual/Reproductive Health: An Impact Evaluation of a Combined Economic and Psycho-social Intervention in S. Tanzania	Dow, William H	Population Reference Bureau

E-G

Understanding Corruption	Finan, Federico S	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Optimal Contacts with Private Monitoring	Fuchs, William	National Science Foundation (NSF)
The First Monitoring for Assesment of the Impact of a Care Program for the Elderly Aged 70 Years and Older in Rural Areas	Gertler, Paul J	Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica
Estudio de Fase Experimental del Proyecto Aula Telematica en Education Basica Secundaria	Gertler, Paul J	Universidad Tecnologica De Nezahualcoyotl, Mexcio
Collaborative Research: International Prices, Costs and Mark-ups	Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier	National Science Foundation (NSF
External Volatility and Marco Insurance	Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier	The London School of Economics and Political Science
Identification, Estimation and Application of Semiparametric Panel Data Models	Graham, Bryan and James Powell	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Some Mathematical Topics in Risk Management for Financial Markets	Guo, Xin	National Science Foundation (NSF)

 

H-K

New Optimization Techniques in Data Mining	Hochbaum, Dorit S	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Berkeley Population Center	Hout, Michael	NIH National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Modeling the Diffusion of Non-normative Ideas and Behavior	Hout, Michael	National Science Foundation (NSF)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth Geocode Program Information and Application	Hout, Michael	DOL Bureau of Labor Statistics
UC Berkeley Workshop on CO2 Utilization	Isaacs, Andrew M	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Small Bandwidth Asymptotic Theory for Kernal-Based Semiparametric Estimators	Jansson, Michael	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Archetypes and Prototypes of Decisions under Uncertainty	Kariv, Shachar	National Science Foundation (NSF)

 

L-M

Macroeconomic Demography of Intergenerational Transfers	Lee, Ronald D	National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging	Lee, Ronald D	National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Intergenerational Transfer and the Evolution of Aging	Lee, Ronald D	UC Davis
New Stoves, New Contracts, New Channels: Testing a Novel Contract for Improved Cookstoves Sold through Microfinance Groups	Levine, David I	Goggio Family Foundation
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Micro-Health Insurance in Cambodia	Levine, David I	University of Wisconsin
Making Networks Work for Policy: Evidence from Agricultural Technology Adoption in Malawi	Magruder, Jeremy R	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices	Mahmood, Saba	Henry Luce Foundation
Agricultural Livelihoods, Food Security, and Women's Risk of HIV Infection	McCoy, Sandra	NIH National Institute of Mental Health
Health and Wealth: The Causal Impact of Wealth Shocks on Health Outcomes	McFadden, Daniel L	National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
The Impact of Vocational Education on Incomes, Health and Wellbeing in Kenya	Miguel, Edward	NIH National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) Conferences	Miguel, Edward	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaborative Research: Experimental Evidence on the Returns to Vocational Education in Kenya	Miguel, Edward	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Weather Risk, Index Insurance, and Agricultural Technology Adoption	Miguel, Edward	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Exploring the Optimal Forecasting Frontier: How Much Room is There to Improve Subjective Forecasting Accuracy?	Moore, Donald S	Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
The Health Effects of Hazardous Waste Sites	Moretti, Enrico	National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Doctoral Dissertation in Research: Information and Pivotal Voting: Evidence from Field Experiments	Morgan, John	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Impact Evaluation of the Sistema de Aprendizazje Tutorial (SAT) Program	Murphy-Graham, Erin	William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

 

N-S

Collaborative Research: Towards Realistic Mechanisms: Statistics, Inference, and Approximation in Simple Bayes-Nash Implementation	Nekipelov, Denis	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Statistical Properties of Numerical Derivatives and Algorithms	Nekipelov, Denis	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Linkages Among Capital Flows, Trade, and Growth in Developing Countries	Obstfeld, Maurice	The London School of Economics and Political Science
Structural-Environmental Factors, Alcohol and HIV Risk in Latino Migrant Laborers	Organista, Kurt C	NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinical Trials Group (STI CTG)	Padian, Nancy S	National Institute of Health via UC San Francisco
Incentives to Improve HIV Testing in Oakland	Padian, Nancy S	UC California HIV/AIDS Research Program
UZ-UCSF Clinical Trials Units	Padian, Nancy S	UC San Francisco
External Evaluation of EGPAF's PMTCT Programme in Zimbabwe	Padian, Nancy S	Children's Investment Fund Foundation
AOC: How Institutions Think About the Unthinkable: Organizational Learning and Communication About Catastrophic Events	Roberts, Karlene A	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaborative Research: The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Cuts: New Estimates Derived from a Narrative Approach	Romer, Christina D	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Index Insurance Innovation Facility	Sadoulet, Elisabeth	UC Davis
Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Evidence from Field Experiments and Tax Policy Variation	Saez, Emmanuel	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Funding R&D When Ideas are Scarce	Scotchmer, Suzanne	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Robustness and Uncertainty in Markets and Mechanism Design	Shannon, Christina M	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Operations Management with Strategic Consumer Behavior	Su, Xuanming	National Science Foundation (NSF)

 

T-Z

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The Mathematical Demography of Biodemography	Wachter, Kenneth W	(National Institute of Aging via UC Davis)
Studies in Global Mortality	Wilmoth, John R	(National Institute of Aging)
Randomized Encouragement Design Analysis of the DOE Weatherization Assistance Program	Wolfram, Catherine and Meredith Fowlie	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-Battelle, LLC)
Energy Efficiency Gains and Participation Rates Associated with the Federal Weatherization Assistance Program through Randomized Control Trials Using Data from Michigan	Wolfram, Catherine and Meredith Fowlie	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Randomized Encouragement Design Analysis of the DOE Weatherization Assistance Program	Wolfram, Catherine and Meredith Fowlie	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Measuring the Efficacy of Energy Efficiency Retrofits and Demonstraing the Value of Randomized Control Trials in Energy Research and Policy Development	Wolfram, Catherine and Meredith Fowlie	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Collaboratory Research:  Incentive Promotions in the US Automotive Industry	Zettelmeyer, Florian	National Science Foundation (NSF)