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)
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.