Call for EOIs: Women’s Work in Markets of the 21st Century 2025

Topics

• EOIs and applications must be submitted separately to each programme:
  • Macro model: Research on gender and structural transformation. Key focus should be on the macro modelling of legal barriers, social norms, and institutional arrangements (e.g., availability of markets for childcare) that limit women’s labour force participation, earnings and human capital accumulation. Potential broad research areas are in:
    • Demographic transitions and the potential for labour mobility
    • Digital technologies
    • Climate impacts and green transition
    • Support to families
  • Micro data: The focus should be on the (past) development of jobs and potential movement away from subsistence-level agricultural work and its implications for women’s employment and entrepreneurship using administrative micro data, such as tax records, labour force surveys, or other administrative data. They are especially interested in the following kind of themes, always including a gender lens:
    • Demographic trends, including implications for the care economy and labour migration
    • Jobs impacts of climate adaptation and green economy transitions
    • Advances in digital and communications technology

Funding Information

• The grants available under the macro stream being managed by CEPR have a budget limit of $25,000 USD.
• Grants will typically range between $10,000 and $25,000.

Expected Outputs

• Researchers should clearly identify in their proposals which outputs they expect to produce under the grant scheme:
  • Working papers with modelled economic analysis on the status and impact of gender gaps in labour force participation, quality of employment and earnings. They are looking for research at the frontier of incorporating gender into models of structural transformation and growth.
  • Policy briefs including actionable recommendations on women’s involvement in shifting labour forces.
  • Research backgrounders on existing trends on women’s integration into structural economic transformations in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria. General backgrounders serve to provide policymakers in the target countries with a comprehensive understanding of the driving factors behind economic transformation in the region and the key considerations for ensuring women benefit from current and anticipated trends.

Eligibility Criteria

• They welcome applications to the SRG and PhD calls from researchers all over the world, and encourage applications that propose collaboration between researchers from lower- and higher-income countries.
• In view of the current political situation and the imposition of economic sanctions on various Russian entities by Western governments, they are not currently able to accept proposals for projects that include researchers or members of the research team who are based at Russian institutions.
• Principal investigators applying to SRG calls should currently have a PhD or be enrolled in a PhD programme. In exceptional circumstances, they will consider applications submitted by principal investigators who do not fit these criteria, however, they must be able to demonstrate a history of high-quality academic and/or policy-relevant research. Although there are no formal qualification requirements for co-investigators, co-investigators on STEG-funded projects usually have a PhD or are enrolled in a PhD programme. The knowledge, expertise, and qualifications of the entire research team will be taken into account when evaluating the proposal.

For more information, visit STEG.