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## To provide public goods, including fundamental research, conceptual breakthroughs, and technical advances, that strengthen and accelerate U.S. economic progress.
The Sloan Economics Program funds fundamental, rigorous economic research that serves as a public good in expanding knowledge of key economic forces, developing new evidence and methodologies, informing decision-makers, and improving economic and social welfare in the United States. [](https://sloan.
org/programs/research/economics) The Economics of Science and Technology includes industrial strategy, emerging technologies, regional development, scientific careers, funding practices, and the productivity of the scientific enterprise.
Examples of recent grants in this area include the following projects: * **Donna Ginther, University of Kansas Center for Research (G-2024-22494)**: To study the trade-off between hiring staff scientists or postdoctoral scholars to work in scientific laboratories * **Daniela Scur, Cornell University (****G-2023-19620****)** To conduct the first large-scale and methodologically rigorous survey on management practices and culture in research laboratories * **Amy Finkelstein, MIT (****G-2023-19617****)**To expand, diversify, and support the community of metascience researchers conducting randomized controlled trials that test ways of strengthening the processes and pace of scientific progress * **Catherine Tucker, NBER (****G-2023-19618****)** To study the Economics of Digitization and of Artificial Intelligence in a newly unified Working Group that covers both topics * **Megan MacGarvie, NBER (****G-2024-22428****)**To strengthen economics research on science funding practices and their impacts by holding conferences, producing a handbook, running boot camps, conducting site visits, and other means of community building * **David Robinson, NBER (****G-2024-22521****)**To organize research on regional disparities in innovation and new business formation The Economics of Transportation and Infrastructure includes research on the costs, benefits, opportunities, and bottlenecks associated with building world-class infrastructure in the U.S. Examples of recent grants in this area include the following projects: * **Milena Almagro, The University of Chicago (****G-2024-22704****)** To analyze economic, technological, and social factors that determine the success of urban transportation systems in theory and in practice * **Edward Glaeser, NBER (****G-2024-22705****)**To study transportation infrastructure challenges in the United States, including project selection, financing strategies, and procurement practices The Economics of Caregiving includes research on the costs, benefits, opportunities, and bottlenecks associated with providing world-class caregiving in the U.S. for those who cannot take care of themselves.
Examples of recent grants in this area include the following projects: * **Aaron Sojourner, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (****G-2024-22667****)** To aid the design of workforce policies in the childcare sector by estimating the responsiveness of the labor supply to changes in wages, child-staff ratios, and other job characteristics * **Misty Heggeness, University of Kansas Center for Research (****G-2023-19637****)**To compile and collect high quality data about the U.S. Care Economy for use both by researchers and, through an online statistical dashboard, by the public as well * **Alison Gopnik, University of California- Berkeley (****G-2023-20984****)** To establish an interdisciplinary research program on the social science of caregiving and build empirical and theoretical foundations for the cognitive economics of care * **Nancy Folbre, PERI Support Fund (****G-2024-22493****)** To improve the availability, accessibility, and accuracy of data on the U.S. care economy * **Gal Wettstein, Boston College (****G-2024-22514****)**To analyze how reimbursement policies for home-and-community-based services (HCBS) impact care recipients and their caregivers Strengthening the Economics Profession includes broad opportunities both to engage with research enablers ranging from new conferences or methodological trainings to new datasets or computational techniques.
Examples of recent grants in this area include the following projects: * **Janet Currie, NBER (****G-2023-19633****)**To support over 50 programs with thousands of in-person and online participants at the annual NBER Summer Institute * **Nicholas Huntington-Kline, Seattle University (****G-2022-19377****)** To assess experimentally how “researcher degrees of freedom” influence and potentially distort the publication, interpretation, and reliability of empirical literature * **Steve Pierson, American Statistical Association (****G-2022-19500****)**To monitor and report on the health of the federal statistical system * **Andrew Gelman, Columbia University (****G-2024-22518**) To develop a unified Bayesian approach to estimating heterogeneous causal effects * **Timothy Bresnahan, NBER (****G-2024-22690****)**To support early-career researchers working on the net federal budgetary impacts of proposed legislation for enhancing U.S. productivity [](https://sloan.
org/programs/research/economics) Grant requests move forward based on expert assessments like these: * Does the proposal ask compelling _questions_ that align with current Sloan research priorities? * Does the proposal present rigorous _methodologies_ that can answer those questions convincingly? * Does the proposal name _stakeholders_ who are ready to help develop, test, and apply those answers?
Grants made in the Economics program are especially: * Policy relevant, but neither “policy research” nor advocacy; * Motivated by nonideological questions rather than preconceived answers; * Engaged with fundamental puzzles, but using fresh approaches; * Unbiased, statistically sound, causally conscientious, and readily replicable; * Careful about baselines, controls, confounding variables, and econometrics; * Savvy about markets, institutions, regulation, transaction costs, behavioral biases, etc.; * Contributors to research infrastructure, datasets, or resources for general use; * Generators of highly cited and catalytic results in high-quality journals; and * Ultimately concerned with the quality of life in the United States.
[](https://sloan. org/programs/research/economics)[](https://sloan. org/programs/research/economics) * Emergency grants of up to $250,000 available to economics-related research projects that have had NSF funding terminated.
Visit site * Applications open for curators of a new model of scholarly publishing which curates and synthesizes evidence around important, decision-relevant questions in economics Visit site * Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy Visit site * Investigating the potentially dangerous consequences for society's safety and equity that might arise from how AI is commercialized Visit site * A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy - the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection.
(And it's free!) Visit site * A partial listing from the Social Science Research Network Visit Site * Bringing transparency to global conglomerates Visit Site * The network that revolutionized development economics brings RCTs to North America.
Visit Site * Experts speaking directly to the public without journalistic middle-men Visit Site * Pre-registering methods and hypotheses is an essential firewall against bad science Visit Site * Two leading economists teach the best practices in quantitative economic modeling Visit Site [](https://sloan. org/programs/research/economics) * The Atlantic ### The man who saw AI coming * Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ### Daniel L.
Goroff to Lead Social Science Research Council After Successful Tenure at Alfred P. Sloan Foundation * Institute for Policy Integrity ### Policy Integrity launches project to push frontiers of benefit-cost analysis, with support from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation * Nature ### Pop-up journals for policy research: Can temporary titles deliver answers?
* TIME ### The Women Saving America’s Climate Data * Iowa State University ### Sloan Foundation grant supports research on economics of academic publishing [](https://sloan.
org/programs/research/economics) * $1,079,997 To analyze the economics and engineering of supply chains through practical case studies of bottlenecks and resilience in hi-tech manufacturing Learn More * $1,080,867 To develop, test, and benchmark techniques for efficiently studying societal trends by fusing digital trace data together with nonprobability survey data Learn More * $750,000 To improve the economic measurement of costs, benefits, and distributional effects in regulatory analysis Learn More * $50,000 To complete a research project prioritized by public reviewers because it compiles geographic evidence about who faces environmental risk and why Learn More * $49,298 To complete a research project prioritized by public reviewers because it creates new data on how federal policies have affected housing accessibility Learn More * $678,700 To develop comprehensive, timely, and practical assessments of the data supply chains that produce U.S. economic indicators, including how these compare with official statistical systems in other countries Learn More [](https://sloan.
org/programs/research/economics) We welcome brief Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) from researchers with a potential interest in submitting an official grant proposal within the next eighteen months. A well-written LOI will help the Economics research program staff effectively assess the quality of fit between the proposed research plan and the program’s research priorities. Our LOI checklist is available for download here.
Complete LOIs can be sent to economics@sloan. org [](https://sloan. org/programs/research/economics) * Daniel L.
Goroff Senior Advisor to the President & CEO * David Michel Program Coordinator /programs/research/economics Program Goal To provide public goods, including fundamental research, conceptual breakthroughs, and technical advances, that strengthen and accelerate U.S. economic progress.
The Sloan Economics Program funds fundamental, rigorous economic research that serves as a public good in expanding knowledge of key economic forces, developing new evidence and methodologies, informing decision-makers, and improving…
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Supports fundamental, rigorous economic research. Examples include studies on workforce policies, data collection about the U. S. Care Economy, and economics of digitization and AI. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The Economics Program is funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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MGPV Travel Grant is sponsored by Geological Society of America (GSA), Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, Volcanology Division. MGPV Travel grants support student travel to the annual GSA meeting. Applications are restricted to active graduate or undergraduate students who are the presenting authors of an accepted abstract at the annual GSA meeting.
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) - 2025: A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This omnibus research funding opportunity includes various program elements, with rolling submissions for Earth Science research through August 2026. Proposers to Earth Science using the NASA Center for Climate Simulation high-end computing facility must include specific budget details.