About the opportunity
What this programme is offering
TREES (Teaching and Researching Equitable Economics from the South), an initiative of the Center for Studies on Economic Development (CEDE) at the Universidad de los Andes, funded by the Ford Foundation, and the EGAP (Evidence in Governance & Politics) Latin American Hub, are seeking advanced-stage research projects aiming to understand the causes and consequences of inequality, broadly defined.
This call is open to researchers based in Latin America with advanced-stage research projects seeking peer feedback and support to finalize their work. The selected projects will receive up to USD 5.000 each.
We are open to research contemplating non-economic aspects of inequality. We welcome empirical studies and contributions to the measurement, conceptualization, and historicization of inequality.
Some non-comprehensive topics of reference may be:
Social segregation along income lines.
The economic and cultural implications of segregation.
Women in the economy of the global south.
Cultural, racial, and gender diversity.
Environmental justice.
Social interactions: Migration.
Stereotypes and discrimination.
Inequality and segregation in the labor market.
Teaching inequality from different areas of knowledge.
Fiscal issues and inequality.
Formal and informal rules, norms, and inequality.
Citizens and the State.
Teaching students with diverse characteristics.
We encourage rigorous and intellectually ambitious research and welcome proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally.
Eligibility and Selection process
To be eligible for the grant, the lead applicant must be a Principal Investigator (PI) linked to a non-profit organization or institution legally established in any State of Latin America or the Caribbean (host institution). The host institution is willing to serve as the administering organization if the grant is awarded.
If awarded the grant contract, the PI will become the coordinator. The coordinator is the sole interlocutor between the host institution and TREES.
The lead PI may submit more than one Letter of Inquiry but may not be awarded more than one grant.
The selection process consists of two stages
In the first stage, submitted applications will be reviewed and selected to participate in a peer-review workshop.
In the second stage, selected participants will present their work during the peer-review workshop, where a selection committee will identify the best paper(s) based on the following criteria: academic rigor; feasibility, understood as the project’s capacity to be realistically completed within the proposed timeframe and with the available financial support; and the contribution of the research to a broader understanding of the causes and consequences of inequality.
How to apply