Personnel
______will serve as the PI for this project. He holds a Ph.D. in _____ from ______University. He is now assistant professor of ______at Duke. He will be responsible for administering the grant; writing the survey questionnaire; supervising the pilot fieldwork; supervising the fieldwork; supervising data entry and cleaning; and conducting the empirical work and research write up for this project. He will devote 23% or .69 summer months to this project in each year.
One part-time graduate research assistant (RA) will be hired for the second year of the project. The RA will work 10 hrs/wk at a rate of $10/hr.
Tuition Remission
The University required portion of tuition remission has been included for the PhD student.
Fringe Benefits
The Duke University non-federal fringe benefit rates are as follows:
FY 10/11 – 25.9% for exempt personnel and 8.4% for PhD students
FY 11/12 – 28% for exempt personnel and 8.5% for PhD students
FY 12/13 – 28.5% for exempt personnel and 9% for PhD students
Consultants
A local supervisor will be hired to supervise fieldwork in ___. This person will cost $1,500 per month for six months of fieldwork for every year of the project.
Likewise, enumerators will be hired (we assume that each enumerator can complete two survey questionnaires per day, so we will need 3000/2 = 1500 enumerator-days). These individuals will cost $20 per day in salary plus $14 per diem, for a total of $30,000 per year in salary and $21,000 per year in per diem.
Likewise, we expect to pay $12,000 for professional quality data entry and cleaning at a cost of $4 per survey questionnaire.
Travel
The PI will travel to ____ twice in each given year of the project, for a total of 14 days each spent in ____ at a per diem of $160 for a total of $2,240. The PI's flights from Raleigh-Durham to ______are expected to cost $3,500.
Travel within ____ is expected to cost $200 per day for car and driver, for a total of 120 days over the duration of the project.
Visas and vaccine for the PI are expected to cover the visa fees; required vaccines; and prophylaxes required to travel to _____.
Other
We will print and photocopy survey questionnaires in the field, which is expected to cost $8,000 per year.
Participant incentives: Support is requested for payouts for the household heads who are chosen to participate in the experimental games we will be conducting to elicit risk preferences. We will pay $10 per household head for those games for a total of $3,000 per year.
Stakeholder workshop costs: Lastly, support is requested for a stakeholder meeting that we expect to cost $5,000. This includes a conference room, transportation and hotel for those who will have to travel to attend, meals, etc.
Facilities and Administrative Costs
The Duke federally negotiated F&A rate is 57%.
Subcontract to ______University
Personnel: ______will serve as the co-PI for this project. She holds a Ph.D. in _____ from the University of ______. She is now assistant professor of ______at the University of _____. She will be responsible for writing the survey questionnaire; supervising the pilot fieldwork; supervising the fieldwork; supervising data entry and cleaning; and conducting the empirical work and research write up for this project. She will devote 23% or .69 summer months to this project in each year.
Travel: The co-PI will travel to _____ twice in each given year of the project, for a total of 14 days each spent in ____ at a per diem of $160 for a total of $2,240. The co-PI's flights from ____ to ____ are expected to cost $3,000 each.
Visas and vaccine for the co-PI are expected to cover the visa fees; required vaccines; and prophylaxes required to travel to _____.