Deadline: 10 February 2025
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth seeks to support research that will generate actionable insights for policymakers and inform policies that lead to strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth.
Preference will be given to scholars who are willing to engage with policymakers on their research. Social scientists and research can play a powerful role in shaping policy. Grantees will have the opportunity to participate in trainings and receive assistance in translating research findings for nonacademic audiences.
They recognize there are a range of other important implications for the use of AI that are relevant to inequality and growth, such as copyright, access to credit, and health care applications, just to name a few.
The funding priorities fall within the following two broad areas of interest: workers, work, and workplace organization, and market structure, supply chains, and competition.
Funding Information
- Grants awarded in response to this request are expected to fall in the $25,000 to $80,000 range.
- Grant timelines should be limited to 2 years.
- Summer salary is capped at $20,000 per year per Principal Investigator, not including fringe.
Eligibility Criteria
- This Request for Proposals is open to researchers affiliated with a U.S. college or university and graduate students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program at a U.S. college or university in the dissertation stage of their career. The affiliated university must administer the grant.
- Researchers not affiliated with a college or university, or with non-U.S. colleges and universities, can be part of a research team and can receive support via a grant. However, the Principal Investigator must be affiliated with a U.S. college or university, which must administer the grant.
- Researchers who are the Principal Investigator for an open Equitable Growth grant with an end date beyond July 1, 2025 are not eligible to apply. Co-Principal Investigators/Collaborators with open grants are eligible to apply.
Evaluation Criteria
- All applications will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Responsiveness to the questions posed in this request
- Anticipated ability of the proposed research to provide policymakers with actionable insights to inform effective policy design and implementation
- Research questions that are appropriately framed within the existing literature
- Potential for proposed research to advance the literature
- Methodological soundness of the research design, including appropriate data
- Researchers’ potential to engage beyond academia to inform evidence-backed policy solutions
Application Requirements
- Proposals must include:
- Research question or problem the study seeks to address
- Engagement with and expected contribution to the literature
- Methodological approach, including data sources and research design
- Status of data access (note that they are unlikely to fund a project if the process for securing data is not underway)
- Timeline for completion
- Policy implications of potential findings and what types of policy tools the research is most likely to inform
- Any experience of the research team in engaging with nonacademic audiences.
For more information, visit Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
