CLOSUP Policy Research Grants Program
Prior Awards
The links below provide short descriptions of awards previously made under the CLOSUP Policy Research Grants Program, as well as awards made under two earlier CLOSUP funding programs: the Major Projects Program and the Small Grants Program (both of which were combined into the current Policy Research Grants Program). For more information about these projects, please contact the project directors, or the CLOSUP staff.
For more information on the CLOSUP Policy Research Grants program, see the program overview.
Awards made:
Fiscal Year 2012 Awards (note: no awards made in FY11)
Fiscal Year 2010 Awards
- Public Opinion Amid Science and Policy Controversy: The 2010 National Survey of Public Opinion on Climate Change and the Case of Michigan
- Seeking Michigan's Economic Transformation: Lessons from Pittsburgh and Beyond
- The Relationship Between Perceived Economic Inequality/Discrimination and Policy Preferences
Fiscal Year 2009 Awards
- Responding to the Collapse of Lake Huon's Chinook Salmon Fishery: Using an Integrated Assessment to Improve Decision Making and Enhance Resiliency
- Informing the Michigan Neonatal Biotrust
- Barriers to Medicaid Participation Among Immigrants
- The National Survey of Climate Change Opinion
Fiscal Year 2008 Awards
- Community Benefits Agreements: Advancing Ecological Democracy in Land Use Planning
- Improving Quality of Life Estimates Across Cities: Are Cities Really Too Big?
- Remaking the City After Abandonment
- The Tax Incidence of Sales Tax Holidays
Fiscal Year 2007 Awards
- Are Permit Market Outcomes Independent of Permit Allocation? Empirical Evidence from Electricity Markets
- The Climate of Opinion: Public Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Policy Alternatives in Michigan and Pennsylania
- The Kalamazoo Promise
- The Demand for E85 Ethanol
- Community Context and Prisoner Reentry
- Estimating the Costs of Homelessness and Supportive Housing in Washtenaw County
- Newborn Screening State Policy Implementation
- The New Working Poverty: Low Income Families' Survival Strategies for Managing Layoffs, Lack of Health Insurance, and Other Shocks to Economic Well-Being
- Is Low Income Housing Tax Credit a Good Tool for Neighborhood Integration and Community Revitalization?
- Research Conference: Against Health: Resisting the Invisible Morality
Fiscal Year 2006 Awards
- Bridging the Gap Between Workforce Development and Economic Development: Understanding Cluster-based Approaches
- Connecting Policy and Community Change in Support of Increasing Educational Attainment in the State of Michigan
- Local Environmental Institutions and Participation: Analyzing Variations and Changes in Individual Environmental Beliefs
- Policy Leadership in Federations
- Reconsidering the Federal Deductibility of State and Local Taxes
- Managing Ecosystem Services as Common-pool Resources: Identifying Best Practices for Wetland Restoration Activities
- Ironic Choices in Policymaking
- Coordinating States and Workforce Development in the U.S.
- The Impact of Education on Health: Evidence from School Entry Laws in the United States
- Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Metropolitan Detroit
Fiscal Year 2005 Awards
- Youth Participation in Public Policy at the Municipal Level: A Research, Education and Outreach Project in Michigan
- Detroit Area Study: Financial Services for the Poor
- Green Development in Michigan
- Nonprofit Hospital Payments-in-Lieu-of-Taxes: Taxation as Health Care Regulation
Fiscal Year 2004 Awards
- The Detroit Arab American Study: Community Outreach
- Public Land Disposition in Michigan Cities
- Rust Belt Revitalization: Who Benefits?
- State Greenway Programs: An Analysis of State-Local Collaboration in Open Space Planning
- Deterrence and Criminal Punishment
- Detroit Arab American Study: Data Preparation
- Institutional Explanations for the Robustness of Federations
- Local Impacts of Economic Change: Strategic Responsiveness of State and Local Workforce Development Systems to Economic Decline
- Maximizing Profit vs. Minimizing Disadvantageous Inequality: Allocations Within and Between State and Local Jurisdictions
Fiscal Year 2003 Awards
- Job Creation/Job Destruction and Strategies for Economic Development and Transition
- The Use of Education to Improve Local Land Use Policy-Making and Promote Sustainable Development in Coastal Michigan
- Renovate or Relocate? An Assessment of Local School Board Decision-Making and Sprawl in Michigan
- Understanding Social Initiatives in Professional Sport: Content, Process and Outcomes
Fiscal Year 2002 and Earlier Awards
