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Early Career Grants

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

TraditionalEarly-career award

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/
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Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.

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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