Seed Funding
The Center for Population, Inequality, and Poverty awards seed funding to faculty affiliated with the Center.
Application Process
If you are a faculty affiliate interested in receiving a seed grant, contact the co-directors with questions or submit a brief description of the project, plans for the funds, and target agency to the co-directors.
Seed Grant Recipients
2024
David Schaefer (Sociology) received funds for a graduate student researcher who is supporting a project investigating questions related to how durations of spells of incarceration in jail are distributed ($5,000).
Kelley Fong (Sociology) received seed funding to pilot a short online survey with educators about the “school-to-Child Protective Services” pathway that will examine perspectives and experiences with CPS reporting ($5,000).
2023
Asia Bento (Sociology) and Vellore Arthi (Economics) received funds for a graduate student researcher for their project Investigating Outcomes from Cosigning Relationships: Examining the Influence of Strong Social Ties and Socioeconomic Status Characteristics ($5,000).
Brittany Morey (Public Health) received funds to support a graduate student researcher for a project titled Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Environmental Health Disparities ($5,000).
Kristin Turney (Sociology) received funds to support two graduate student researchers to collect and analyze intensive longitudinal data on the time-varying relational, instrumental, and health consequences of jail incarceration for family members, including parents, siblings, romantic partners, and adult children ($8,161).
2022
Suellen Hopfer (Public Health) received funds for a two-pronged pilot study in preparation for an NIH grant proposal on vaccine misinformation. Some of this seed funding will support a graduate student researcher for two summer months ($10,000).
2021
Damon Clark, Rachel Baker, Di Xu (Education) received funds for their project focused on community colleges as part of an IES/NSF proposal ($15,000).
Annie Ro (Public Health) received funds for the "pre-study section mock review" in which faculty read and provided feedback on specific aims of her NIH proposal ($1,000).
Naomi Sugie (Criminology, Law & Society) received funds to support research for a project titled, "From Rights to Votes: An Experimental Study of Text Messaging Outreach to Individuals with Criminal Convictions in the 2020 Election” ($5,000).
Bryan Sykes (Criminology, Law & Society) received funds for his project, Empirical and Epistemological Inquiries into Mixed-Methods Research, as part of an NSF proposal ($5,000).
Bryan Sykes (Criminology, Law & Society) and George Farkas (Education) received funds for a graduate student researcher to clean and link two administrative data sets ($4,355).
Kristin Turney (Sociology) received funds to support data collection about pandemic-related mortality in prisons across all 50 states and the federal Bureau of Prisons ($5,000).
2020
Vellore Arthi (Economics) received funds for a graduate student researcher to work on long-term labor market scarring from recessions as part of an NSF proposal ($5,000).
Tim Bruckner (Public Health) received funds for analyzing the universe of live births, infant deaths, and fetal deaths among NH blacks and NH whites in the US (~65 million records, 1995 to 2018) ($5,000).
Damon Clark, Rachel Baker, and Di Xu (Education) received funds for a graduate student researcher to assist with a proposal related to earning college degrees and getting college degrees ($5,000).
George Farkas (Education), Emily Owens and Bryan Sykes (Criminology, Law & Society) received funds for analyzing the disproportionate tendency of students from low income and African American or Latino backgrounds to be incarcerated at relatively young ages, known as The School-to-Prison Pipeline ($5,000).
David Neumark (Economics) received funds for a graduate student researcher to work on machine learning methods to predict work at older ages as part of an NIA proposal ($5,000).
Daniel Parker (Public Health) received travel and research funds to extract primary source health and migration data in East Africa ($4,400).
Annie Ro (Public Health) received funds for a graduate student researcher to clean and analyze health care data on undocumented immigrants in LA county ($5,000).