The Upjohn Institute's 2025 Early Career Research Awards will fund researchers exploring topics ranging from housing assistance to gender disparities. The institute today announced the 10 winners of the awards, worth $7,500 each.
Early Career Research Awards go to early career faculty — those who have earned a doctorate degree in the last six years — to carry out policy-relevant research on labor market issues.
This year’s winners were chosen from a field of 69 applications. The deadline to apply for Early Career Research Awards comes each year in January, with winners announced in April.
With the 2025 awardees, the Upjohn Institute has awarded 256 Early Career Research Awards since the program’s founding in 2007.
Award recipients are expected to write a research paper based on the funded work and submit the paper for the Institute’s working paper series, which also submits to SSRN and lists with RePEc. Paper summaries also are considered for publication in the Institute’s policy brief series and newsletter, Employment Research. The Institute encourages authors to submit papers supported by Early Career Research Awards to peer-reviewed journals.
See the table at bottom for a full list of this year's awardees, their institutions and proposal titles. Click any proposal title for details on the proposed research.
View a list of past ECRA winners and summaries of their projects here.