Past BRITE Grant Recipients 2017-2018 BRITE Lab Grant Program Winter deadline extended to Friday, January 26th, 2018 2016-2017 Funded Projects Spring 2017 "Democratic Deliberation and Imaginative Resistance" PIs: Jon Pevehouse, Katie Robiadek*, Zach Barnett-Howell*, Political Science; Agricultural and Applied Economics Funding: $2,500 "Zero Conjectural Variance in Spatial Competition" PIs: Dan Quint, Shane Auerbach*, Rebekah Dix*, Economics Funding: $2,000 Winter 2017 "A Behavioral Remedy for the Censorship Bias" PI: Jordan Tong, Operations and Information Management Funding: $2,500 "An Experimental Test of Gender Difference in Charitable Giving" PIs: Jordan van Rijn*, Brad Barham, and Esteban Quinones, Agricultural and Applied Economics Funding: $2,500 "Evaluating the efficacy of an online psycho-education intervention in reducing loneliness and promoting belonging in college students" PIs: David Smallen* and Linda Roberts, Human Development & Family Studies Funding: $2,000 "Migration Optimality: Experimental Results using Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms" PIs: Zack Barnett-Howell*, Dan Phaneuf and Jon Pevehouse, Agricultural and Applied Economics; Political Science Funding: $2,000 Fall 2016 "How Product Placement Affects Commercial Viewership: An Eye Tracking Study" PIs: Robin Tanner and Rusty Stough*, Marketing Funding: $2,500 2015-2016 Funded Projects Spring/Summer 2016 "Confidence in Complex Cost Systems amidst Competition" PIs: Tyler Thomas, Ella Mae Matsumura & Dimitri Yatsenko*, Accounting and Information Systems Funding: $1,500 "Climate change vs Global warming" PIs: Kaja Rebane* & Brad Barham (sponsor), Agricultural and Applied Economics Funding: $2,200 (continuation of prior award) Fall 2015/Winter 2016: "Anonymity vs. Accountability in the Third Party Reviews" PI: Kevin Chung, Marketing Funding: $2,100 "Compensation Discretion as Insurance: How do Managers Respond to Having a Back-up Plan?" PIs: Rachel Martin* & Tyler Thomas (sponsor), Accounting and Information Systems Funding: $2,000 "Climate change vs Global warming" PIs: Kaja Rebane* & Brad Barham (sponsor), Agricultural and Applied Economics Funding: $1,200 "Testing the existence of four types of consumers in local food systems" PIs: Yuji Saikai*, Agricultural and Applied Economics; Lydia Zepeda (co-sponsor), Consumer Science; Steven Deller (co-sponsor), Agricultural and Applied Economics Funding: $1,000 "Simplifying Health Insurance Plan Choice" PI: Justin Sydnor, Actuarial Science, Risk Management & Insurance; Anya Samek, USC Funding: $5,000 "Discretionary Bonus Pool Distributions when Agents Face Unequal Performance Risk" PI: Tyler Thomas, Accounting and Information Systems; & Michael Majerczyk, Georgia State Funding: $2,400 2014-2015 Funded Projects Spring 2015: "Fairness and Risk in Supply Chains" PIs: Jordan Tong, Operations and Information Management & Paola Mallucci, Marketing Funding: $3,000 "Strategic Consumer Response to Dynamic Pricing in Deregulated Retail Electricity Market" PIs: Sheldon (Xiaodong) Du, Agricultural and Applied Economics & Nancy Wong, Consumer Science Funding: $2,600 Winter 2015: "The Social Welfare Implications of Cause Marketing" PIs: Paola Mallucci & Neeraj Arora, Marketing Funding: $3,250 "An Experimental Approach to Comparing Similarity- and Guilt-Based Charitable Appeals" PI: Jordan van Rijn* & Brad Barham (sponsor), Agricultural and Applied Economics Funding: $5,000 Fall 2014: "Private Provision of Club Goods: An Experimental Comparison" PI: Brent Hueth, Agricultural and Applied Economics Funding: $4,416 2013-2014 Funded Projects Spring 2014: "Me vs. We: the Effect of Incomplete Peer Feedback on Effort Allocation between Individual and Team Output" PI: Tyler Thomas, Accounting and Information Systems Funding: $3,000 "The gender gap in competitiveness: How can social information help?" PI: Anya Samek, Consumer Science Funding: $5,760 "The impact of executive compensation disclosures and discretion on outsider perceptions and investing decisions" PI: Rachel Martin* & Ella Mae Matsumura (sponsor), Accounting and Information Systems Funding: $2,600 Fall 2013: "The Role of Expectations and Information on Reference Points" PI: Nilton Porto* & Anya Samek (sponsor), Consumer Science Funding: $1,680 "Peer Evaluation Regimes and Effort Provision" PI: Keehyung Kim*, Operations and Information Management & Noah Lim (sponsor), Marketing Funding: $4,200 (updated amount as of 5/2015) "The effect of information on demand for Small Stake Insurance" PI: Marc Ragin* & Justin Sydnor (sponsor), Actuarial Science, Risk Management & Insurance Funding: $3,000 "Ego Depletion: Public Accounting's Catch-22?" PI: Patrick Hurley* & Brian Mayhew (sponsor), Accounting and Information Systems Funding: $2,500 "The Effect of False Accusation in Automated Adjustment Notices on Procedural Fairness Perceptions of the IRS" PI: Cass Hausermann* & Brian Mayhew (sponsor), Accounting and Information Systems Funding: $2,000 *indicates graduate student (at time of award) with faculty sponsor as PI |