Early Career Grants
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Grants for doctoral students, postdocs and untenured faculty studying how economic inequality affects growth and stability, including work on wages, the safety net and household economic security.
- Indicative award
- $15k–$30k (total award)$15,000 over one year for Ph.D. students and postdocs; $30,000 over one to two years for eligible faculty. The AEA Summer Economics Fellows program is listed separately as a $30,000 prorated stipend for an 8-12 week summer placement.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states the 2025 Request for Proposals is closed. Equitable Growth runs an annual early-career competition and periodically releases topic-specific RFPs; no future date is published on this page.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be affiliated with a U.S. university: Ph.D. students, postdocs, or faculty within eight years of the Ph.D. Tenured scholars are ineligible. The separate AEA Summer Economics Fellows program is for early-career faculty at U.S. universities.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- economic inequality · economic growth · labor markets · household economic security
- Apply at
- https://equitablegrowth.org/engage/funding-opportunities/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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