Economic Futures Research Awards
Anthropic (Economic Futures Program)
Corporate research awards for short empirical studies of AI's economic impacts, including labour-market effects, productivity and distributional consequences, using econometric methods, data analysis or new data collection completable within six months; awardees also receive API credits.
- Indicative award
- $10k–$50k (total award)Page states awards of $10,000 to $50,000 plus $5,000 in API credits.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states applications are not currently being accepted; findings are to be presented within six months of award.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Aimed at economists with strong quantitative backgrounds, including academic economists, data scientists and PhD students; social work researchers would need a quantitative labour-market design to compete.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- artificial intelligence and work · labor markets · distributional effects · economic policy · rapid empirical research
- Apply at
- https://www.anthropic.com/economic-futures/program
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-09-23. 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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