Deadline: 5 March 2018
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is seeking applications for its grant program to deepen our understanding of whether and how inequality affects economic growth and stability.
Equitable Growth supports inquiry utilizing many different kinds of evidence, relying on a variety of methodological approaches and cutting across academic disciplines.
They consider proposals that investigate: the consequences of economic inequality across wages, benefits, incomes, wealth, and job quality as well as group dimensions of inequality including race, ethnicity, and gender; the causes of inequality to the extent that understanding these causal pathways will help us identify and understand key channels through which economic inequality may affect growth and stability; and the ways in which public policies affect the relationship between inequality and growth in the core areas of interest described below.
Areas of Interest
Equitable Growth will accept proposals in these four areas:
- Macroeconomics
- Human Capital and the Labor Market
- Innovation
- Institutions
Funding Information
Academic grants are typically in the $25,000 to $100,000 range over 1 to 3 years. Doctoral/Post-Doctoral grants are funded at $15,000 over 1 year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Solicitations are open to researchers affiliated with U.S. universities. Equitable Growth has two funding streams: Academic and Doctoral/Post-Doctoral.
- Academic grants are open to researchers affiliated with a U.S. university. The affiliated university must be the fiscal sponsor of the grant.
- Doctoral/Post-Doctoral grants are open to graduate students currently enrolled in a doctoral program at a U.S. university, and to recent Ph.D. graduates currently in a post-doctoral position at a U.S. university. If applicants are currently a graduate student or in a post-doctoral position, they may choose to apply for either an Academic or Doctoral/Post-Doctoral grant, depending on the pool in which they’d like to compete.
- Equitable Growth is willing to fund a wide range of activities, including researcher salary and benefits, research assistance, data purchase, and costs associated with conducting experiments or participating in professional conferences. Our grants cannot cover indirect overhead.
How to Apply
To submit proposal, one must complete online application form available on the given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Equitable Growth Request for Proposals.