The fellowship provides a $4,000 stipend for the summer, allowing the recipients to engage in their own original public opinion-focused research project using data from the Roper Center archives.
The aim of this evaluation is to assess both the implementation progress to date, and the impact of the pilot project, using data from a desk review of existing reports; a qualitative survey and a field survey.
The Institutional Review Board of the Georgia Institute of Technology approved the overall research project using data from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation also approved the study to use registry data previously collected from patients with their signed consent.
A first ongoing project using data from the ICARE study aims to investigate complex interactions between well-established risk factors of three cancers among women (breast, lung and head and neck cancers) and inherited genetic variations, using a pathway candidate approach.
The project used data from cellphone towers to locate people's cellphones.
However, this project uses data from NYC's school choice system to show that families' choices change after the initial match as they learn about schools.
This project uses data from the PSID/CDS to explore two questions: (1) Do characteristics of neighborhoods influence children's health and academic related time use?; and (2) Do neighborhood-based differences in time use influence children's health and academic success, making time use a mediator in the neighborhood/well-being relationship?
Seventy-seven projects use data obtained from other federal agencies, like student loan records, bank account numbers and taxpayer identification numbers.
4. Finally, each local community project was described in a local community project report, using data from the interviews, (participant) observation and documentation.
