Grantmaking
See the innovative research we’ve supported and discover opportunities for collaboration. Each grant represents our commitment to evidence-based solutions that promote broadly shared prosperity.
Research Economic Inequality With Us
282 Results
$75,000
Quantifying the effects of energy transitions on the U.S. labor market and implications for the Inflation Reduction Act
2025
$75,000
How Do Place-Based Policies Affect People? Lessons and Implications for the Inflation Reduction Act
2025
$67,346
The Economic Effects of Clean Energy Manufacturing Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act: Evidence from the Solar Supply Chain
2025
Grantees: Todd Gerarden (opens in a new tab)
$70,000
IRA Subsides for EVs, Import Tariffs, and Domestic Industry
2025
$48,000
Competitive Implications of Generative AI Terms & Conditions: An Empirical Study
2025
$80,000
Tracking Generative AI Adoption at Work
2025
$62,149
AI in telecommunications and game development: The role of worker voice in management strategy and job quality
2025
$70,000
Bringing Worker Voice into the Development, Design, and Use of AI: A Case Study of the Labor Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente
2025
$70,000
AI and Middle Class Mobility at the California Department of Motor Vehicles
2025
$15,000
Market Power in Homebuilding and the U.S. Housing Shortage
2025
Grantees: Anna Croley (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Empirical Evaluations of Child Care Subsidy Policies
2025
Grantees: Serena Goldberg (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Determinants of Irregular Worker Schedules
2025
Grantees: Whitney Zhang (opens in a new tab)
$30,000
The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages: 1935-1975 Evidence from Local Land Records
2025
Grantees: Omer Ali (opens in a new tab)
$30,000
Corporate Governance and Labor Market Outcomes
2025
Grantees: Andrew Baker (opens in a new tab)
$30,000
Unlocking Opportunity: The Long-Term Effects of EITC-Led Migration on Families and Intergenerational Mobility
2025
Grantees: Jacob Bastian (opens in a new tab)
$30,000
Supply Chain Resilience and Economic Growth: Evidence from Global Shipping Disruptions
2025
Grantees: Diego Känzig (opens in a new tab)
$80,000
COVID-19 Relief Funding and the Child Care Workforce
2024
$30,000
The Distributional Effects of Firm Productivity Changes: Evidence from U.S. Linked Worker-Owner Data
2024
Grantees: Samuel Young (opens in a new tab)
$30,000
Labor Market Collusion through Common Leadership
2024
Grantees: Elena Prager (opens in a new tab)
$30,000
Big Daycare: The Impact of Private Equity-Owned Child Care Businesses on the Market for Early Care and Education
2024
Grantees: Jessica H. Brown (opens in a new tab)
$30,000
The Highway to Displacement: Interstate 10 and Black Communities in New Orleans
2024
Grantees: Jhacova Williams (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Skill and spatial mismatch in the energy transition
2024
Grantees: Eleanor Krause (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Distributional Consequences of Private Equity
2024
Grantees: Jordan Richmond (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Causes and Consequences of Incomplete Unemployment Insurance Take-Up
2024
Grantees: Brendan Moore (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Worker Led Lawsuits: The Effects of California’s Private Attorney Generals Act
2024
Grantees: Kassandra Hernandez (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Effects of Participating in Multiple Safety Net Programs on Family Well-Being
2024
Grantees: Neil Cholli (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Effect of Wealth on Descendants of the Enslaved
2024
Grantees: Micah Villarreal (opens in a new tab)
$97,200
Cash Grants to Firms as Counter-Cyclical Policy: Evidence from $125 Million in Lottery Awards
2024
$75,260
Employment Effects of the Employee Retention Tax Credit
2024
Grantees: Brandon Enriquez (opens in a new tab)
$80,000
Evaluating the Labor Market Effects of Short-Time Compensation in California
2024
Grantees: Till von Wachter (opens in a new tab)
$77,520
Stimulating Labor Markets: The Effects of the COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments
2024
$79,200
Evaluating the Impact of the 2021 CDCTC Expansion on Women’s Labor Supply and Childcare Utilization
2024
$15,000
Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story
2023
$15,000
Wage and Skills’ Spillover Effects of Million Dollar Projects
2023
Grantees: Alaa Abdelfattah (opens in a new tab)
$70,000
Novel Measurement of Childcare Customer and Worker Flows Enables Novel Evidence on Recent Supply-Side Subsidies
2023
$55,000
Tracking Hospital Mergers and Understanding Which Markets are Changing
2023
$50,000
Employee Activism: Mobilizing Workers as Corporate Stakeholders
2023
Grantees: Natalia Luka (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Long Term Own and Dynamic Complementarity Effects of the WIC Program
2023
Grantees: Anna Malinovskaya (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Role of Regulations in the Development of Labor Market Power: Evidence from Clean Air Act’s New Source Review Permit Program
2023
Grantees: Jonathan Kowarski (opens in a new tab)
$60,000
The Child Care Workforce and COVID: Community Capacity and Investments as Buffers to the Pandemic
2023
$65,300
Janus and the Future of Public Sector Worker Power
2023
$40,000
The Physics of Reparations: A Quantum Leap in Equity
2023
$60,000
Building an open-source knowledge base and machine learning tools to automate the transformation of job advertisement text into data
2023
$70,000
Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Implications of Wage Rigidity
2023
$40,000
Does guaranteed income facilitate wealth and credit building among Black households in Georgia?
2023
$70,000
Missing pieces in the puzzle: Leveraging untapped archival data to connect New Deal housing policies to racial and spatial inequality
2023
$75,000
Changing Climate for Union Organizing: Non-Board campaigns 2016-2022
2023
Grantees: Kate Bronfenbrenner (opens in a new tab)
$55,000
Designing Climate Adaptation Funding Portfolios for Equity and Efficiency
2023
$60,000
The Lifecycle Origins of Income Inequality
2023
$15,000
The Self-Taught Economy: Open Access and Inclusion in the Tech Industry
2022
Grantees: Dilan Eren (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Aggregate Costs of Workplace Sexual Harassment
2022
$15,000
Concentration and Racial Equity in Meat Processing
2022
$15,000
Caregiving Arrangements for Older Adults: The Roles of Family Characteristics and Public Benefits
2022
Grantees: Emily Ellis (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Racial disparities in heat exposure
2022
Grantees: Tridevi Chakma (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Do Labor Strikes Achieve Worker Demands? Understanding Strike Outcomes and Effectiveness
2022
Grantees: John Kallas (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Collateral Consequences: How Driver’s License Suspensions Create Barriers to Work
2022
Grantees: Adrienne Jones (opens in a new tab)
$85,000
Exploring disparate impact in online retailing
2022
$15,000
Monetary Policy and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality
2022
Grantees: Ethan Feilich (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Race and Outside Options: Evidence from U.S. Employer-Employee Data
2022
Grantees: Giovanni Righi (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Startups’ Common Ownership and Competition in Technology Markets
2022
Grantees: Mario Leccese (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Firm and Labor Dynamics
2022
Grantees: Tarikua Erda (opens in a new tab)
$67,273
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes
2022
$80,000
Low-Income Borrowers and Payday Lenders: A Qualitative Study
2022
Grantees: Mario Small (opens in a new tab)
$65,000
Labor Unions and Workplace Safety Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022
$74,929
Inequality and Targeting of Disaggregated Policy
2022
$33,348
Municipal Neighborhood Effects: Estimating the Independent Association between Childhood Jurisdiction and Life Outcomes
2022
Grantees: Robert Manduca (opens in a new tab)
$70,000
The Effects of the Child Tax Credit on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Low Incomes
2022
$75,000
The Price Effects of Market Power
2022
$75,000
Consolidation in Drug Markets: Impact on Prices and Access
2022
$75,000
The Effects of Tech M&As on Innovation Incentives
2022
$89,806
Inequality in Health Returns to Local Labor Markets: Extraction Booms and Mortality among Native Americans
2022
$40,000
The Care Work System as a Fundamental Cause of Economic Inequalities
2022
Grantees: Pilar Gonalons-Pons (opens in a new tab)
$75,000
The Role of State Policy in Reducing Disparities in Unemployment Insurance Recipiency
2022
Grantees: Eliza Forsythe (opens in a new tab)
$64,000
Minimum Wages and Employment Composition
2021
$15,000
Superstar Firms and Regional Disparities
2021
$15,000
Does Monetary Policy Work Through the Labor Market?
2021
Grantees: Wendy Morrison (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Effects of Redlining Maps: a Novel Estimation Strategy
2021
$15,000
Extended-Family Wealth, Race, and the Transition to Homeownership
2021
Grantees: Cherrie Bucknor (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Homeownership Disparities and Access to Family Child Care
2021
Grantees: Jonathan Borowsky (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Understanding Amazon: Strategy and Welfare Implications
2021
Grantees: German Gutiérrez (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination Under Endogenous Product Entry: the case of Implantable Medical Devices
2021
Grantees: Kritika Goel (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The Impact of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Women’s Employment, Income, and Economic Security
2021
Grantees: Meredith Slopen (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Optimal Monetary Policy with Menu Costs is Nominal Wage Targeting
2021
$15,000
Sectoral bargaining and spillovers in monopsonistic labour markets
2021
Grantees: Ihsaan Bassier (opens in a new tab)
$34,224
Millionaire Migration After the Trump Tax Bill: Implications for Progressive Taxation
2021
Grantees: Cristobal Young (opens in a new tab)
$68,734
Is COVID-19 Exacerbating Inequities in Subsidized Child Care?: Policy Lessons to Strengthen the Home-Based Sector
2021
$82,000
School-to-Work Pathway and Racial/Ethnic Inequality among College Graduates
2021
Grantees: Yao Lu (opens in a new tab)
$32,065
Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment
2021
$50,000
Measuring Inequality in Real Time
2021
$40,353
Public Investment, Manufacturing Work Opportunity, and Upward Mobility in Midcentury America: Evidence from World War II
2021
$57,860
Macroprudential Regulations, Income Inequality and the Redistribution Channel
2021
$65,000
The Effect of Government Safety Enforcement on Workers: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
2021
$47,657
Joint Ventures in Dialysis Care: Improving Coordination or Enabling Market Power?
2021
$85,624
Who Weathers the Storm? The Unequal Effects of Hurricanes in the United States
2021
$15,000
Finding Work with Carceral Credentials: Peril and Paradox
2021
Grantees: Brandon Alston (opens in a new tab)
$85,000
Do Mortgage Lenders Compete Locally? Implications for Credit Access
2021
$50,000
Power and Dignity in Low-Wage Labor Markets: Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers
2021
$75,278
Buyer Power in the Beef Industry
2021
$80,000
Voices of Home-Based Providers: Perspectives from the Early Childhood Field
2021
$45,000
Welfare Effects of Common Ownership
2021
$80,000
Which Policies are Effective at Reducing Racial Differences in the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty?
2021
$15,000
Walmart Supercenters and Monopsony Power: How a Large, Low-Wage Employer Impacts Local Labor Markets
2021
Grantees: Justin Wiltshire (opens in a new tab)
$85,000
Unequal Protections: Regional Disparities in Labor Standards Policies, Enforcement, and Violations
2021
$85,000
Green Jobs or Lost Jobs? The Distributional Implications for US Workers in a Low Carbon Economy
2021
$15,000
Carbon Pricing and Innovation in a World of Political Constraints
2020
$20,000
COVID-19 and Paid Leave: Assessing the Impact of the FFCRA
2020
$28,000
Access to Paid Leave during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from NYC
2020
Grantees: Jane Waldfogel (opens in a new tab)
$34,500
Did Paid Sick Leave and Family Medical Leave Ameliorate the Health and Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
2020
$75,000
Racial and ethnic inequality in consumption smoothing
2020
$15,000
The impacts of welfare cuts on well-being during the Great Recession: Evidence from linked U.S. administrative and survey data
2020
Grantees: Derek Wu (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The redistributional consequences of multiple minimum wages
2020
Grantees: Jonathan Garita (opens in a new tab)
$61,000
The long-term evolution of inequality: Poverty, pollution, and human capital
2020
$20,000
Recessions during young adulthood and U.S. racial income inequality
2020
Grantees: Andria Smythe (opens in a new tab)
$76,000
Where does new work come from?
2020
$70,000
Domestic outsourcing in the United States
2020
$25,000
Building a new national data infrastructure for the study of wealth inequality and wealth mobility
2020
Grantees: Fabian Pfeffer (opens in a new tab)
$67,000
The impact of a tuition credit program on Pell-eligible student outcomes
2020
$15,000
The role of culture and competition in media diversity: Historical evidence from U.S. radio stations
2020
Grantees: Lena Song (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Workers’ bargaining power in the United States over time
2020
Grantees: Glen Kwende (opens in a new tab)
$35,400
Measuring the rise of wealth inequality, capital gains, and income inequality
2020
Grantees: Jacob Robbins (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Benefit risk, claim timing, and Unemployment Insurance benefit generosity in California
2020
Grantees: Geoffrey Schnorr (opens in a new tab)
$51,750
Mark-ups in the cement industry: An evolution of scale economies and market power
2020
Grantees: Nathan Miller (opens in a new tab)
$70,000
Measuring intergenerational mobility in the United States over the 20th century
2020
$75,000
Do merger reviews promote competition and stall consolidation?
2020
$48,300
Understanding collective labor action in platform businesses
2020
$15,000
Dual-earner migration decisions, earnings, and unemployment in the United States
2020
Grantees: Joanna Venator (opens in a new tab)
$48,500
Technology and outsourcing in last-mile delivery
2020
Grantees: Steve Viscelli (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The innovation dividend of fiscal policy: the impact of defense spending on local innovation in U.S
2020
$15,000
Cannabis-infused dreams: A market at the crossroads of criminal and conventional
2020
Grantees: Michele Cadigan (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Place-based climate policy in the United States
2020
Grantees: Eva Lyubich (opens in a new tab)
$75,000
A large-scale evaluation of merger simulations
2020
$15,000
Monetary policy and firm heterogeneity in the United States
2020
Grantees: Lina Yu (opens in a new tab)
$74,000
The evolution of civil rights enforcement and economic prosperity of minorities
2020
$60,000
Mark-ups, labor market inequality, and the distributional implications of monetary policy
2020
Grantees: Greg Kaplan (opens in a new tab)
$49,000
Labor market frictions and adaptation to climate change: Implications for earnings and job quality of low-skilled workers
2020
Grantees: R. Jisung Park (opens in a new tab)
$58,110
Monetary policy, credit, and labor income redistribution
2020
$35,000
Using job posting and resume data to better understand the U.S. labor market
2020
$15,000
The individual-level effects of diversity programs
2020
Grantees: Janet Xu (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Optimal tax policy in imperfectly competitive U.S. labor markets
2020
Grantees: Benjamin Scuderi (opens in a new tab)
$80,000
Employer-employee discordance in awareness and perceived accessibility of paid family and medical leave
2020
$80,000
Employers and Paid Leave: Assessing the Interdependencies between State-level Mandates, Medical Leave, and Voluntary Provisions of Paid Leave
2020
$27,500
Paid Family Leave and Work Eldercare Tradeoffs
2020
$80,000
Access to Paid Caregiving and the Impact on Financial Security, Employment, and Public Program Use of Non-Elderly Adults in the United States
2020
$135,700
Public policy and opioid drug abuse: Investigating the effects of paid family and medical leave and Medicaid
2019
$90,100
Understanding the effects of California’s paid family and medical leave law on inequality in labor market outcomes for older adults
2019
$80,000
Scheduling strategies for warehouse work
2019
$60,000
Understanding the incidence of minimum wage increases
2019
$30,510
Between exclusion and cumulative advantage: Effects of within-organization mobility on inequality
2019
Grantees: Nathan Wilmers (opens in a new tab)
$50,000
New evidence on local minimum wage laws and earnings inequality
2019
$15,000
Measuring firms’ labor market power in the United States
2019
$15,000
Competitive effects of mergers with regulatory divestiture of assets: Evidence from airline industry
2019
Grantees: Ratib Ali (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
A unified analysis of declining dynamism and rising mark-ups
2019
Grantees: Conor Walsh (opens in a new tab)
$60,000
Labor market concentration and welfare
2019
$77,000
The causal effect of antitrust enforcement
2019
$70,000
Business dynamics on American Indian Reservations: Understanding the role of the gaming industry and secondary employment growth
2019
$15,000
Does inflation inequality matter for monetary policy?
2019
Grantees: Jacob Orchard (opens in a new tab)
$80,000
The labor market consequences of ex-offender licensing laws
2019
$15,000
The missing intercept: A sufficient statistics approach to general equilibrium effects
2019
Grantees: Christian Wolf (opens in a new tab)
$70,000
Do social norms around pay influence the wage-setting behavior of firms?
2019
$55,000
How does capital investment affect workers? Evidence from bonus depreciation and matched employer-employee data
2019
$29,400
Market design responses to inequality
2019
$15,000
Work as an option: Effects of unpredictable and unstable schedules on earnings, mobility, and skills
2019
Grantees: Peter J. Fugiel (opens in a new tab)
$55,000
Workers in the board room: The causal effects of shared governance
2019
$15,000
Getting labor markets right: Occupational mobility and outside options
2019
$15,000
Federal financial aid and postsecondary success for low-income students
2019
Grantees: Daniel Mangrum (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Disentangling gender gaps: New evidence from personnel records
2019
Grantees: Ingrid Haegele (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Do higher wages improve health outcomes? Evidence from nursing homes and minimum wage reforms
2019
Grantees: Krista Ruffini (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Regulating the care boom: Labor standards and in-home care work in three U.S. cities
2019
$15,000
Criminal record information and access to opportunity: Using the 2010 CORI reform as a natural experiment
2019
Grantees: Lauren Russell (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Examining the relationship between caregiving and work productivity loss among employed family caregivers of older adults
2019
$80,000
The effects of employment incentives and cash transfers on parent and child outcomes: Evidence from the long-run effects of welfare reform experiments
2019
Grantees: Hilary Hoynes (opens in a new tab)
$72,000
Evaluating the Philadelphia Fair Workweek Standard to identify the consequences of scheduling regulation on workers and families
2019
$35,000
The Opt-Out Mechanism for Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance: Could it Work?
2018
Grantees: Kristin Smith (opens in a new tab)
The Matching Multiplier and the Amplification of Recessions: Evidence from the LEHD
2018
Grantees: Christina Patterson (opens in a new tab)
Stratification, Stress-Related Morbidity, and Labor Supply at Older Ages
2018
Grantees: Kyle Moore (opens in a new tab)
$65,000
The long-run impact of Temporary Disability Insurance on SSDI claims, earnings stability, and labor force participation
2018
$75,868
Using IRS tax data to measure the long-term effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act
2018
$68,000
Using linked Census data to examine occupation mobility in the United States
2018
$50,000
Undirected migration
2018
Grantees: Danny Yagan (opens in a new tab)
$68,422
Tax evasion by the wealthy: Measurement and implications
2018
$65,000
The organizational bases of discrimination
2018
$70,000
The impact of antitrust on competition
2018
$15,000
Parental resources and the career choices of young workers
2018
Grantees: Matthew Staiger (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Consumer protection law and mortgage markets
2018
Grantees: Manisha Padi (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Do pass-through owners pass tax burdens through to their workers?
2018
Grantees: Max Risch (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
What works and what workers try: Social mobility paths beyond the bachelor’s degree and the impact of racialized inequality
2018
Grantees: Jasmine Hill (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Minimum wages and racial inequality
2018
$15,000
The labor market effects of minority political empowerment: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act
2018
$15,000
The effects of paid sick leave on workers’ earnings dynamics: Evidence from Seattle
2018
Grantees: Hilary Wething (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Posted wage rigidity
2018
Grantees: Jonathon Hazell (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Race, entrepreneurship, and urban revitalization
2018
Grantees: Candace Miller (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Economic impacts of mentoring for disadvantaged youth: RCT evidence
2018
Grantees: Alex Bell (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Automation threat and wage bargaining
2018
Grantees: Antoine Arnoud (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Wealth taxation and evasion: Quasi-experimental evidence from Colombia
2018
$41,087
The macro-effects of unemployment insurance: A simulation-based discontinuity design approach
2018
$75,000
Firm wage policies and inequality: Evidence using matched employer-employee data
2018
Grantees: Arindrajit Dube (opens in a new tab)
$55,000
Income-specific consumption baskets and the interaction between inequality and monetary policy
2018
$60,000
Understanding men’s nonemployment using longitudinal data: Wage opportunities, employment dynamics, and long-term effects
2018
Grantees: Ann Huff Stevens (opens in a new tab)
$60,749
Trends in earnings volatility using linked administrative and survey data
2018
$15,000
Unions, managers and monopolies: how concentration and managerial power contribute to rising wage inequality
2017
Grantees: Nathan Wilmers (opens in a new tab)
$73,740
The historical shadow of segregation on human capital and upward mobility
2017
$80,000
Languages, laws and labor contracts
2017
$15,000
The optimal design of parental leave policies and gender equality: mismatch of skills across genders
2017
Grantees: Linh Tô (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Digital discrimination: a case of Airbnb
2017
Grantees: Shariq Mohammed (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Manufacturing employment, trade and structural change
2017
Grantees: Guillermo Gallacher (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
From liberty street to main street: firms, monetary policy and labor market outcomes
2017
Grantees: Christina Patterson (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Concentration of corporate ownership and inequality
2017
Grantees: Alex Xi He (opens in a new tab)
$68,000
Effects of the new wave of minimum wage policies
2017
$15,000
Vertical dis-integration and the reallocation of risk and revenues in production networks: the case of franchising
2017
Grantees: Brian Callaci (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Prediction and the moral order
2017
Grantees: Barbara Kiviat (opens in a new tab)
$36,135
Unbundling worker and manager preferences for workplace organization: understanding support for new forms of labor representation
2017
$60,000
Wages of power and wages of care: a source of increasing earnings inequality?
2017
$40,000
The impact of paid maternity leave: evidence from temporary disability insurance in Rhode Island
2017
$76,050
Firm and market shocks, wage risk, and the protection provided by government institutions: evidence from IRS tax data
2017
$67,120
How local barriers to migration shape relocation and earnings in the wake of china trade shocks
2017
$70,000
The color of wealth in Boston
2017
$50,000
Wealth inequality and wealth returns heterogeneity
2017
Grantees: Luigi Pistaferri (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
Bias and labour market inequality
2017
Grantees: Heather Sarsons (opens in a new tab)
$67,884
Sources of displaced workers’ long-term earnings losses
2017
$72,100
Schedule stability study
2016
$80,000
Estimating the impacts of patents on U.S. firms and workers
2016
$100,000
The effect of government cash assistance on household credit access and use
2016
$73,000
Understanding employer provision of paid parental leave in NY, CT, and PA
2016
$47,700
The impact of consumer credit access on employment, earnings, and entrepreneurship
2016
$65,355
Gender gap or parenthood gaps? The contribution of parenthood to the gender wage gap, 1983-2013
2016
$59,700
Secular stagnation and inequality
2016
$57,490
Effect of unemployment insurance benefits on match quality and job mobility
2016
$86,290
The evolution of wealth inequality and social mobility in the U.S.
2016
$15,000
Preschool attendance and child health: Evidence from state-funded Pre-K programs
2016
Grantees: Mariana Zerpa (opens in a new tab)
$15,000
The distribution of economic activity across firms and the decline in the firm start up rate
2016
Grantees: Hannah Rubinton (opens in a new tab)
Research Economic Inequality With Us
We fund research examining how economic inequality affects economic growth and stability, with attention to how inequality impacts different demographic groups. We support studies that identify the causes of inequality and analyze how public policies influence the inequality-growth relationship.