Social Science Research Institute

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  People

  • Administrative Positions

    • Hillygus, D. Sunshine, Director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology
    • Taylor Jr., Donald H., Director of the Social Science Research Institute
    • Xu, Daniel Yi, Faculty Director of the Triangle Research Data Center (TRDC)

  • Primary Appointments

    • Akushevich, Igor, Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Angrist, Misha, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Arbeev, Konstantin, Associate Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Boyd, Gale Allen, Associate Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Chernik, Aria, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Eubank, Nicholas, Assistant Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Gift, Noah, Executive in Residence in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Kulminski, Alexander, Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Parsons Jr., William Bruce, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Schaich Borg, Jana, Associate Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Stallard, Patrick J. Eric, Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Ukraintseva, Svetlana, Associate Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Van Cappellen, Patty, Assistant Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Whisnant, Anne Mitchell, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Wilson Jr., Wilkie Andrew, Research Professor Emeritus in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Yashin, Anatoli I., Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • Zanalda, Giovanni, Professor of the Practice in the Social Science Research Institute

  • Secondary Appointments

    • Land, Kenneth C., Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute
    • O'Rand, Angela M., Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute

  • Non-Faculty Positions

    • Brewster, Ann, Research Scholar
    • Cook, Brandon, Statistician II
    • Cooper, Alexandra, Manager, Program Assessment
    • Di Bona, Vito, Statistician II
    • Galloway, Ivanti, Statistician II
    • Gary, Kate, Postdoctoral Associate
    • Gerardo, Diana, Statistician II
    • Gorbunova, Galina, Research Analyst I
    • Gu, Xi-Liang, Statistician, Sr
    • Holmes, Rachel, Statistician II
    • Hoque, Masudul, Statistician II
    • Jain-Washburn, Ethan, Statistician II
    • Kolpakov Nikitin, Stanislav, Research Associate
    • Nalawade, Vinit, Statistician II
    • Nazarian, Alireza, Research Scientist
    • Popov, Vladimir, Research Scientist
    • Prytkova, Tatiana, Research Associate
    • Salehin, G M Nazmus, Statistician II
    • Schmid, Lorrie, Manager, Information Systems
    • Smokoski, Jessica Sperling, Research Project Mgr, University
    • Webster, Stephanie, Statistician II
    • Yashkin, Arseniy, Research Scientist, Senior
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  Administers Grant

  • "History of the AVI CHAI Foundation, Part I: The Donor's Years"
  • "Participation and Regulatory Compliance in Vietnam: A Field Experiment"
  • "The Social Context and Consequences of Transformative Experience"
  • A Computational Model of Resources and Resilency: Deploying the Elements of National Power for Strategic Influence
  • A Foundation-University Partnership: Collaborating for Non-profit Capacity Building and Infrastructure Enhancement
  • A Global Value Chain Analysis of Food Security and Food Staples for Major Energy-Exporting Nations in the Middle East and North Africa
  • A Neuroscience-Based Health Curriculum to Promote Academic Success
  • A Proposal to Enhance the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study
  • A Socio-Technical Framework for Identifying Team Science Collaborations that could Benefit From Cyberinfrastructure
  • Accountable Care Policy Gaps and Lessons from the UK and US: A Bi-Directional Study
  • Adolescent Drug Use: Development, Prevention and Policy
  • Advancing American Competitiveness: Globalization of Innovation and Global Competence
  • Advancing Medical Device Postmarket Surveillance Infrastructure and Epidemiologic
  • Advancing Partnership for Appalachian Girls' Education
  • African American Literature and Social History
  • Aging Veterans Health Policy Model
  • An Empirical Study Comparing LLM Comprehension Following Live and Recorded Lectures
  • Anti-Terror Lessons of American Muslim Communities
  • Applications of CCP Estimation to Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogenity
  • Applying the Hedonic Price Method to Evaluate the Impact of Delisting of Great Lakes Areas of Concern on the Residential Housing Market
  • BIGDATA:F: Collaborative Research: Mining for Graphs and High-Dimensional Data: Achieving the Limits
  • Blue Haven Initiative
  • Book Babies RCT
  • Brain Imaging the Effects of High Sensation Value Anti-Drug PSAs
  • Bridging the Gap: Fostering Greater Policy Relevance in Political Science and International Studies
  • Bridging the Gap: Fostering Greater Policy Relevance in Political Science and International Studies
  • Building the Science of Investing in Early Childhood: The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Universal Home Visiting
  • CIF21 DIBBs: An Integrated System for Public/Private Access to Large-scale, Confidential Social Science Data
  • COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WORKSHOP: Behavioral Models of Politics
  • Carbon Tax and Cap-and-Trade in Practice: Experiences, Outcomes, Lessons Learned and to be Learned
  • Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research - CALDER
  • Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research - CALDER
  • Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED2)
  • Center of Excellence in Value Assessment (Planning Grant)
  • Child Mental Health Initiative (CMHI)
  • Choosing to Not Enroll? Understanding Parents' Decision-Making in Enrolling and Not Enrolling in Head Start
  • Civil Society Organizations, Social Media, and Public Attention
  • Collaborative Proposal: A Data-Intensive Exploration of the Links Between SES and STEM Learning Outcomes
  • Collaborative Research Examining Emotional Reactions to Favorable Violations of Referential versus Equity Standards of Justice
  • Collaborative Research: A Pre/Post Disaster Investigation of The Effect of Local Network Capacities on Disaster Response
  • Collaborative Research: How Innovative are Innovations?: Refining survey-based measures of innovation
  • Collaborative Research: Leveraging Matched Administrative Datasets to Improve Educational Practice and Long Run Life Outcomes: Toward Building a National Interdisciplinary Network
  • Collaborative Research: Representation and the Intersections of Gender, Race and Ethnicity
  • Collaborative Research: See and ye shall be: The impact of ABC's Shark Tank on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Community Policing Strategies To Counter Violent Extremism
  • Computational Models of Cultural Meaning & Social Interaction
  • Conference on New Approaches and Incentives in Drug Development
  • Conference on Probability Theory and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Conference/Workshop on Tenure and Promotion for Political Scientists of Color
  • Conferences and Congressional Briefings on the Changing Innovation System
  • Congregational Decision-Making about Clergy Compensation
  • Conservation Policy Impacts in Tropical Dry Forest Regional & Spatially Focused Analyses Given Other Social and Natural Drivers of Land Use
  • Convener of Discussions on Medical Policy Issues Impacting Drug Development
  • Coordination of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme special publication entitled Amazon and Global Change, on the results of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (LBA) research project in the Amazon, Brazil
  • Credit Markets, Evaluative Technologies, and Social Stratification
  • Crime Gun Theft
  • Design a Randomized-Control Trial (RCT) of the Family Centered Treatment Intervention
  • Developing a comprehensive understanding of the loca government fiscal impacts from oil and gas development in USA
  • Developing Consultation and Collaboration Skills: ESL and Classroom Teachers Working Together with Students and Families
  • Developing a path to value-based reimbursement for Oncology therapies
  • Developing, Managing, and Retaining Expert Human Capital in Public Agencies
  • Discrimination & Short & Long-Term Risks for Depression
  • Doctoral Disseration Research: Azerbaijan: Oil, Islam, and Imperial Rivarly in a Volatile Borderland
  • Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Raiding Sovereignty in Central Africa
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Comparative Study of the Nature of Sovereignty in the Global Age
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Producing Urban Futures in Post-Genocide Kigali
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effect of Stereotype Threat on Test-Taking Performance Among Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Alternative Models of Care for Refugees Seeking Political Asylum
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Examining Interracial Conduct in an Integrated Neighborhood
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Examining race, class and social capital in devastated neighborhoods
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Piety in Progress: Video Filmmaking and Religious Encounter in Benin
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Securing Youth: Humanitarian Futures in Post-Conflict Uganda
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Influence and Affect Control
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Sounding the City: Noise Regulation and Everyday Rhythms in Gulu, Uganda
  • Doctoral Training for the Versatile Humanist
  • Duke AIDS Law Project
  • Duke AIDS Legal Project Southern REACH grant proposal
  • Duke Law Innocence Investigation and Litigation Program
  • Duke Teach House
  • Duke University Noyce Scholarship - Phase II
  • Durham Substance Use Report
  • Early Life Origins of Risk & Resilience to Drugs of Abuse: Role of Glial Priming
  • Educating Black Elites: HBCUs, Public Policy, and the Redistribution of American Political Power
  • Effectiveness, Control and Competence in Public Agencies
  • Effects of Classroom Management Training on Early Learning Skills
  • Embodiment in worship across religious contexts
  • Emerging Models of Collaborative Chronic Cardiac Care
  • Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM)
  • Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM)
  • Energy Data Analytics Lab
  • Energy Efficiency in North American Manufacturing
  • Energy Outlook Comparison
  • Energy Star: Building Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Industrial Sector
  • Environment for Development Initiative Energy Program
  • Evaluating the Federal CVE Initiative
  • Examining the Consequences of Maternal Incarceration
  • Exploring the Linkages Between Post-Secondary School and Labor Market Success
  • Family Connects International
  • Family Structure and Inequality in Contemporary America
  • Feasibility Study for a Guilford County Comprehensive Information System
  • Feasibility Study for a Guilford County Comprehensive Information System
  • Fluctuations in Self-Control Capacity
  • Forest Impacts of Certification
  • Friendship Networks and Emergence of Substance Abuse
  • GHTC R&D Mapping
  • Genetic Modulations of Morbidity Compression: A Population-Based Study
  • Guiding Committee Co-Chair role for the Health Care Payment LAN
  • HIV is not a Crime-NC (HINAC-NC)
  • Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN) - Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Action Collaborative (AC)
  • Healthy Life at Risk: The Role of Senesence
  • IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute
  • Immigration Enforcement and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
  • Improving Care for People with Serious Illnesses: Identifying Opportunities and Strategies for ACO Improvement
  • Improving our Understanding of Risk Sharing Agreements: A Survey to Learn from Non-Public Activities
  • Industrial Energy Efficiency: The Role of Management Practices and Public Policy
  • Inheritance and Wealth Inequality
  • Integrative Middle School STEM Teacher Preparation: A Collaborative Capacity Building Project at Duke University
  • Intentional and Effective Places and Spaces for Children's Positive Mental Health
  • Interdisciplinary Energy Data Analytics Ph.D. Fellows Program
  • Interpreting Events in Arabic Cultures: International Data Collection and Simulation Analyses
  • J. Kirk Felsman Program on Children in Adversity: Felsman Fellowships
  • Launching a World Food Policy Center
  • Longevity and Stress in African American Families
  • Low-Cost RCT Evaluation of a Universal Postnatal Nurse Home Visiting Program
  • MRI: Acquisition of a Mobile Behavioral Research Laboratory
  • Macroprudential Financial Regulation
  • Mechanisms of Influence: the case of human trafficking
  • Meeting the Bar: A Propensity Score Analysis of BSF Impacts by Couples' Economic Status
  • Mercy Corps Scaling Social Impact Case Studies
  • Michigan Center For Health Communication Research II
  • Model Portfolio Plan
  • Model-based methods for debiasing individual probability assessments: Theory, experiments, and application to Mississipi
  • Moving Toward Value-Based Care for Degenerative Joint Disease
  • National Congregational Study-Wave III
  • National Congregations Study
  • National Congregations Study and Clergy Compensation Dissemination
  • National Expansion of Family Connects
  • National Survey of Religious Leaders
  • Neural-Glial Interactions and Opioid Abuse: Modulation by Early-Life Experience
  • New narratives in philosophy: rediscovering neglected works by early modern women
  • North Carolina Child Well-Being
  • Organizing the Firm for Innovation: A Bridge Between Innovation Strategy and Implementation
  • Parent Behavior and Child Adjustment Across Cultures
  • Partnership Between Made in Durham and the Durham Children's Data Center
  • Person Generated Health Data: A new generation of evidence for regulatory decision-making
  • Planning a Research Project on Congregational Boards
  • Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect Initiative
  • Professional Development for Gifted Behaviors
  • Project AIM: Preventing Illicit Substance Use Among Middle School Children
  • Promoting Professionalism and Accountability Through Nonfinancial Means: Framework Development
  • Proposal for a Comprehensive Examination of Child Welfare Assessment Tools
  • Proposal for a Comprehensive Examination of Child Welfare Assessment Tools
  • Publicity support for book, Putting Your Money to Work: Philanthropy Now or Investing for the Future
  • RTI University Scholars
  • Reducing the Need for Out-of-home Placements: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Effects of Family Centered Treatment on Well-Being Outcomes and Public Dollar Costs
  • Regional Entrepreneurship and Firm Dynamics
  • Regulatory Oversight of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Request for Operating Support for Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
  • Research into the Systemic Risks of Insurance
  • Restoration Economics: Investigating the Effect of Area-of-Concern Remediation on Residential Housing Prices & Neighborhood Demographic Characteristics
  • Review of DSS Child Protection Models
  • Richard Newell with Snnovations
  • Science Policy Research Report: Funding Team Science
  • Scientific Meetings for Advancing Economic Analyses of Substance Abuse Prevention
  • Self-compassion and Well-being in the Elderly
  • Set, StartREDY, Set, Start! School Readiness for All
  • Sex Differences in Developing Microglia: Implications for Synaptic Pruning
  • Simulation Models for Diffusion over Multirelational Dynamic Networks
  • Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative
  • Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative
  • Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI)
  • Special Analysis of Part D Drug Prices
  • Spend-down Project - Year 7
  • Spend-down reports and case studies
  • Standard: An Investigation of Text Recycling in Scientific Research
  • Strategic Lessons from the Atlantic Philanthropies' Grantmaking, 1982-2012
  • Strengthening Benefit-Cost Analyses of Substance Abuse Prevention
  • Structured Stories NYC
  • Student Resilience
  • Study on Foundations Spending Down
  • Study the Framing of philanthropy in the media in Western liberal democracies.
  • Subcontract for Integration of Whole Genome Sequencing into Clinical Medicine
  • Subjective Reasons for Belief and Non-belief
  • Support of Regulatory Research to FDA Commitment under the 2012 PDUFA Act
  • Supporting the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study
  • Supporting the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study
  • TISS New Faces Conference
  • Teacher Collaboration for English Language Learner Success
  • Tech & Check: Automating Fact-Checking
  • The COMPASS PROJECT
  • The Correspondence of Fertility Intentions and Behavior in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
  • The Effects of Local Job Destruction on Youth Mobility
  • The Effects of Scheduling Stability Legislation on Family Functioning: A Combined Event Study and Daily Diary Study of Workers in Emeryville, CA
  • The Embodiment of Worship: Relations Among Postural, Psychological, and Physiological Aspects of Religious Practice
  • The Evolution of Moral Progress
  • The Family Impact Seminars: Building Evidence-Based, Family-Focused Foster Care Policy
  • The Impact of Exempting Medical Providers from Malpractice Protection
  • The Racial Marriage Gap and Student Achievement: A New Look at an Old Conundrum
  • The Resilience Project: A proposal to The Duke Endowment for a four-year study of undergraduate student resilience and interventions that will promote resilience
  • The Timing of SNAP Benefit Receipt and Children's Academic Achievement
  • The impacts of smart meters on losses in electricity distribution, electricity reliability, and household investments in energy efficiency
  • To fund a planning grant for a world food policy center
  • To support a data curation fellow in energy economics at Duke University, in order to develop emerging leaders in the field and to encourage permanent staffing solutions within academic libraries
  • Truancy Prevention Project
  • Uncovering the effectiveness of strategies of influence: The United States efforts to promote policies to reduce human trafficking
  • Understanding Student Gains from Out-of-School Music Programming
  • Understanding US Regional Health & Mortality Disparities: A Life Course Approach
  • Understanding the outcomes of out-of-school orchestral music programming for low-income youth
  • Universal Nurse Home Visiting in Low-Income, Rural Counties
  • Voss: Collaborative Research: Towards Collaboration Strength in Virtual Research Organizations
  • Wave III of the National Congregations Study
  • Wave IV of the National Congregations Study
  • Weak Social Ties: Quantification, Metrics and Modeling
  • Wealth Ownership and Declining Health in the U.S
  • What Is The Economic Impact of NSF-funded Research? Connecting the dots between scientific discovery and entrepreneursh
  • Workshop on Questionnaire Design Issues in Longitudinal & Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys: Balancing Continuity/Innov
  • World Food Policy Center Capacity & Rural NC Project
  • [In] Cognitio Veritas: Neural and Cognitive First Principles as Ground Truth for Social Simulation

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