Washington Center for Equitable Growth Research Grants (including Early Career Grants)
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Grants for policy-relevant research on how inequality affects economic growth, with a standing emphasis on labor market dynamics: bargaining power, wage stagnation, job mobility, paid leave, schedule stability, and unemployment insurance. Recent topical calls have covered the labor effects of AI adoption and of the Inflation Reduction Act.
- Indicative award
- $15k–$30k (total award)Page states $15,000 over one year for graduate students and postdocs, and $30,000 over one to two years for early career faculty. General grant sizes are not published as a single range; the $15,000-$30,000 span reflects the early career figures only.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.At the time of retrieval the page showed the listed requests for proposals as closed, including the Inflation Reduction Act and AI calls and the 2025 Early Career cycle. No future deadline is published; the page directs applicants to sign up for updates or email grants@equitablegrowth.org.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Early Career Grants are open to PhD students at US universities, postdoctoral researchers at US institutions, and faculty within eight years of the PhD who are tenure-ineligible. General grants require affiliation with a US university, with career stage varying by request for proposals. This is a university-applicant program; a community organization cannot be the grantee and would participate as a partner on a university-held award.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- labor market inequality · worker bargaining power · paid leave and scheduling · ai and job quality · unemployment insurance
- Apply at
- https://equitablegrowth.org/request-for-proposals/
- 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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