Deadline: 19-Sep-23

Structural Transformation and Growth Economic (STEG) and Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) invites applications for the fourth call for proposals for Major Research Grants (LRGs).

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Children's Rights, Youth, Poverty Eradication, Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Civil Society LeadershipDOWN

LRGs of up to £100,000 (For this funding call, the £100,000 limit will be relaxed for projects with extraordinary data collection costs in low-income countries. finance research assistance, data collection and/or purchase and teaching purchases, or relevant remuneration practices, for the principal researcher and co-researchers of partner institutions. The grants also support travelling for field locations, even when secondary data is used.

Themes

• Research can focus on broad systemic patterns and processes of structural transformation and growth for low-income countries, in a comparative sense over time or space, or more narrowly defined topics related to one or more of the following six research themes:
  • Data, measurement and conceptual framework;
  • Companies, frictions and spillovers and industrial policy;
  • Labourdomestic production and structural transformation at the household level;
  • Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps;
  • Commercial and space friction;
  • Political economy and public investment.
• They also welcome work that intersects with Y-RISE's interest in understanding large-scale policy interventions, with particular attention to work aimed at expanding knowledge about the effects of electrification, falling under one or more of the following themes:
  • The role of electricity reliability in economic development;
  • Complementarities between electricity and other investments;
  • Migration and agglomeration under spatially uneven electrification;
  • Broad themes:
    • Macro, growth, and welfare effects of large-scale programmes
    • Spillovers, networks, and equilibrium effects
    • Policy implementation and institutional capacity
    • Political economy effects of programmes
    • Evidence aggregation and external validity

Areas of Expertise

• STEG is also focussed around three cross-cutting issues that are simultaneously relevant to many areas of structural transformation, including the six research themes:
  • Gender;
  • Climate change and environment;
  • Inequality and inclusion.

Information on funding and duration

• Major Research Grants (LRGs) are awarded up to the value of £100,000.
• An LRG must be completed within 24 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• They receive applications for LRG calls from researchers all over the world and encourage applications that propose collaboration between researchers from low- and high-income countries.
• Given the current political situation and the imposition of economic sanctions on various Russian entities by Western governments, they are currently unable to accept project proposals that include researchers or members of the research team based in Russian institutions.
• Principal investigators applying for LRG calls must currently have a PhD or be enrolled in a PhD programme. Although there are no formal qualification requirements for co-investigators, co-investigators on STEG-funded projects usually have a PhD or are enrolled in a PhD programme. The knowledge, experience and qualifications of the entire research team will be taken into account when evaluating the proposal.
• They accept submissions from PhD students for the regular LRG calls. However, given the scale of LRG funding, all applicants will be assessed on their ability and experience in conducting data collection and research more broadly on this scale.
• They anticipate that PhD students applying on their own may find it difficult to compete with more established researchers. As a result, they encourage PhD students to apply as part of a team alongside more senior co-researchers, which can help demonstrate the viability and credibility of the project. For all PhD students acting as principal investigators, they need a letter of support from their PhD supervisor no later than two weeks after the deadline.

For more information, visit Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG).