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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce CEGA's 2022 Psychology and Economics of Poverty (PEP) Funding Competition!
Grant funding is supported by CEGA’s Psychology and Economics of Poverty (PEP) Initiative, bringing together psychologists and economists to better understand how poverty affects cognition, beliefs and decision-making with implications for a range of socioeconomic outcomes (including mental health, early childhood development, and economic welfare).
We will award smaller grants ($1k - $15k) to PhD students and postdoctoral scholars and slightly larger grants ($15k - $35k) to faculty members based at CEGA-affiliated institutions.* We invite proposals that address one or more of the following areas of inquiry:
- How poverty impacts cognitive load, decision-making, social cognition, health (including mental health), aspirations, and/or economic outcomes
- The psychological consequences of resource instability or volatility
- Belief formation, the relevance of belief-based utility, affective adaptations to poverty, and the role of the "psychological immune system"
- The influence of cultural context and social norms on outcomes related to the above topics
While not required, we welcome work that explores these topics in the context of COVID-19. Additionally, we will consider funding projects that are not currently feasible given COVID-19 restrictions on in-person fieldwork presuming they have a realistic and well thought-out contingency plan. We may also offer a smaller amount of funding, or delay funding contingent on research becoming feasible by a certain date.
Deadline for Proposals: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time
To apply: please use our online Submittable portal (https://cega.submittable.com/submit), complete a brief series of questions about your project and upload a PDF of your proposal narrative and budget (using the linked templates). Please see the full Request for Proposals for details about the application process.
Please contact me at khallez@berkeley.edu with any questions.
Best regards,
Kristina Hallez
PEP Program Manager
*CEGA-affiliated institutions include: all University of California campuses, California Institute of Technology, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, Reed College, Stanford University, University of British Columbia, University of Oregon, University of San Francisco, University of Southern California, University of Washington, Washington State University.
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