Past Grants

Ellen Carlin will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. and global systems to prevent and respond to a pandemic in a globalized world. She will lead a team to undertake a scoping exercise of the pandemic preparedness and response system and identify gaps in capabilities as well as stakeholders who could be mobilized to address those shortcomings. The project’s findings will be presented in a report and policy briefings.

Ralph Cossa and Brad Glosserman will edit and publish Comparative Connections, an electronic journal that tracks developments in more than a dozen bilateral relations across East Asia.

Thomas Toch will direct the research and publications program of FutureEd, an internet-based publication designed to serve as an intermediary between the education research and policy communities. FutureEd will provide periodic summaries of new research on a wide range of education policy topics and commission reports from leading scholars on a variety of interventions such as the District of Columbia’s strategy to increase teacher quality and Indiana’s statewide voucher program. The project’s findings will appear in a series of short research summaries, in-depth reports, and op-ed and magazine articles.

Kim Rueben will lead an effort to improve the analytical capacity of state policy officials to make choices on tax and spending priorities and to optimize their tax systems to support growth and other policy goals. She will develop a series of fiscal forecasting tools that will allow public officials, analysts, journalists, and others to assess how changes in tax and spending policies will affect the future finances of state governments. The project will result in a series of web-based tools as well as a series of reports and policy briefs.

Richard Bush will research and write a book assessing the changed political, social, and economic dynamics in Taiwan during the past decade and identifying the implications of those changes for U.S. management of the cross-strait relationship between China and Taiwan.

Barry Blechman and Russell Rumbaugh will research and write a book examining how U.S. military forces can best be used to influence events short of combatant operations. They will build a data set of all instances of the use of U.S. military forces in support of diplomatic and political objectives between 1992 and 2017. They will analyze a sample of those cases to assess the degree to which the United States achieved its national security objectives over varying periods of time. They will also undertake several detailed cases studies of how Russia and China employ armed forces in similar settings.

Yuen Yuen Ang will research and write a book examining the role that corruption plays in the Chinese economy and China’s politics. She will collect and analyze data on corruption as well as insights gained from more than 400 interviews.

Lawrence Katz and Jens Ludwig will assess the extent to which growing up in a high-poverty neighborhood reduces opportunities for families and their children to move up the socioeconomic ladder. The project’s findings will appear in a report and a series of papers.