Institute For Social and Economic Research and Policy - Centers and Major Projects

Centers and Major Projects

The Institute contains fifteen research centers and major projects that conduct basic research, develop policy initiatives, and train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

• American Institutions Project
  • The American Institutions Project focuses on Congress, regional issues, the treasury, and the military.
• Applied Statistics Center
  • The Applied Statistics Center is a community of scholars at Columbia organized around research projects in the human, social, and engineering sciences, as well as basic statistical research.It is directed by Andrew Gelman.
• Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies
  • The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies functions as a research entity and a site for intellectual dialogue and collaboration for academics who are committed to analyzing the dynamics of complex inequity and stratification, as well as to policy and legal advocacy. It is directed by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw.
• Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED)
  • CRED studies decision making under climate uncertainty and risk. Its objectives address the human responses to climate change and climate variability.
• Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR)
  • CDTR, opened in 2006, conducts research and training on the tensions between religion, toleration, and democracy.
• Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality (CWI)
  • CWI investigates the economic well-being of families and societal inequality. It interests encompass family welfare and standard of living as well.
• Center on Organizational Innovation (COI)
  • COI promotes research on organizational innovation as well as new forms of collaboration, communication, and coordination made possible with the advent of interactive technologies.
• Columbia Center for the Study of Development Strategies
  • The Center for the Study of Development Strategies provides a forum at Columbia to support rigorous field based research on major questions in the political economy of development.
• Columbia Program for Indian Economic Policies(PIEP)
  • PIEP is led by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya. The Program brings together scholars from Columbia and other universities and think tanks around the world. The program houses a data center on India’s economy and organizes lectures, seminars, and conferences in the U.S. and India.
• Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • IPD, led by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, helps developing countries respond to globalization.
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences
  • The Lazarsfeld Center, the oldest of the ISERP centers, is the catalyst for new research through its sponsorship of workshops, seminars, and conferences.
• Public Opinion Project (POP)
  • The Public Opinion Project (POP) examines trends in public opinion, public policy, and political leadership in the United States.
• Roundtable on the Sexual Politics of Black Churches
  • This project convenes a team of sixteen African American scholars and religious leaders for a series of three convenings over a period of seventeen months.
• The Global Health Research Center of Central Asia
  • Columbia University's Global Health Research Center of Central Asia brings together multidisciplinary expertise from Columbia, Central Asia and the surrounding region to address a range of global health challenges: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs),hepatitis C, substance abuse, malnutrition, mental health and other threats to health.
• Understanding Autism Project
  • Autism is a condition characterized by impairments in communication, social interaction, and stereotyped or repetitive behaviors. No one knows with certainty what has caused autism prevalence—which has increased roughly ten-fold in the past forty years—to increase so precipitously. This group looks explores this increase.