In order to encourage scientists to answer their research questions pertaining to family, child care, school and child development by analyzing the detailed, comprehensive, and well-documented longitudinal data sets from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), NICHD will make Small Research Grants (R03) and Research Project Grants (R01) for research using these data sets. In particular, NICHD would like to see the data sets used by psychologists, sociologists, economists, statisticians, educators, policy makers, and physician scientists

Research questions that may be answered with data from the NICHD SECCYD pertain to many topics, including, but not limited to:

• Family demographic characteristics and their stability over time.
• Family social/psychological processes and their stability over time.
• Social processes among the sub-sample of African American families.
• Social processes in White families.
• Patterns of mothers’ employment when their children are infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and at school.
• The tapestry of childcare arrangements used for infants, toddlers, and older children.
• Child-adult interaction from infancy onwards.
• Peer interaction.
• Specific aspects of the child rearing environment in the family context, in childcare and at school as predictors of theoretically relevant aspects of child development at one developmental period over time.
• The quality of academic instruction.
• The after-school experiences of children.
• Developmental patterns of social, cognitive, language, achievement, and health outcomes.
• The relations between different outcomes (e.g., attention and sociability) as they unfold over time.
• Mediators and moderators of children’s developmental outcomes.

Agency: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Proposal Deadline: August 2, 2005 for 3-page summary applications
October 18, 2005 for full applications (by invitation)
October 18, 2005 for Mini Grants

Through its grants program of Research Grants and Mini Grants, the W.E. Upjohn Institute supports policy-relevant research on issues related to employment and unemployment.

Research Grants:
Grants made under this program are expected to result in research that is accessible and of interest to practitioners and policymakers as well as to produce a book-length manuscript publishable by the Institute. As part of its Research Grants program, this year the Institute has designated a Priority Research Topic: the effects of health care costs on labor demand. Research questions for this priority might include:

NSF grants for research in the above-listed disciplines, which are under NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences and Division of Social and Economic Sciences) are intended to build fundamental knowledge of human behavior, interaction, and social and economic systems, organizations and institutions. The Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research to develop and advance scientific knowledge on human cognition, language, social behavior and culture, as well as research on the interactions between human societies and the physical environment. The Division of Social and Economic Sciences seeks to enhance our understanding of human, social and organizational behavior by building social science infrastructure, by developing social disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects that advance knowledge in the social and economic sciences.