Our funding interests are organized around the following four drivers of economic growth: macroeconomics and inequality, market structure, the labor market, and human capital and wellbeing. We consider proposals that investigate the consequences of economic inequality, as well as group dimensions of inequality; the causes of inequality to the extent that understanding these causal pathways will help us identify and understand key channels through which inequality may affect growth and stability; and the ways in which public policies affect the relationship between inequality and growth.
Explore the Grants We've Awarded
Buyer Power in the Beef Industry
Grant Year: 2021
Grant Amount: $75,278
Grant Type: academic
Voices of Home-Based Providers: Perspectives from the Early Childhood Field
Grant Year: 2021
Grant Amount: $80,000
Grant Type: academic
This project will build on the relatively thin body of work on informal, home-based child care providers in the United States. It aims to better understand how that community can be supported in meeting societal priorities around increasing affordable access to high-quality early childhood care. Home-based care providers deliver essential care services but occupy a structurally challenging position. These providers are poorly compensated and face challenges when it comes to meeting licensing requirements or achieving high-quality ratings. This study will identify impediments to these child care providers’ abilities to provide high-quality, affordable child care that is accessible to the families that need it. The authors will take advantage of a collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education to conduct interviews with licensed and unlicensed providers in Virginia through participatory action research, a research design that helps create unsilencing opportunities for those who have been silenced. This is especially important since the voices of home-based providers are often not included in the conversation about quality care.
Unequal Protections: Regional Disparities in Labor Standards Policies, Enforcement, and Violations
Grant Year: 2021
Grant Amount: $85,000
Grant Type: academic
Which Policies are Effective at Reducing Racial Differences in the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty?
Grant Year: 2021
Grant Amount: $80,000
Grant Type: academic
Green Jobs or Lost Jobs? The Distributional Implications for US Workers in a Low Carbon Economy
Grant Year: 2021
Grant Amount: $85,000
Grant Type: academic
Welfare Effects of Common Ownership
Grant Year: 2021
Grant Amount: $45,000
Grant Type: academic
Funded research
Human Capital and WellbeingHow does economic inequality affect the development of human capital, and to what extent do aggregate trends in human capital explain inequality dynamics?
Funded research
Macroeconomics and InequalityWhat are the implications of inequality on the long-term stability of our economy and its growth potential?
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Market StructureAre markets becoming less competitive and, if so, why, and what are the larger implications?
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The Labor MarketHow does the labor market affect equitable growth? How does inequality in turn affect the labor market?