SIEPR Research Projects

The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) currently manages over $16 million in sponsored projects. The sponsored research team at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research consists of Administrative Director Deborah Carvalho, Assistant Director for Finance and HR Karen Prindle and Sponsored Projects Administrator Shehnaz Khan. SIEPR provides pre- and post award support for faculty in the Economics department.

Our sponsored research projects cover the areas of Auctions, Market Design, Microfinance, gender and its influence on economic choice, and Macro - and Microeconomics. A growing trend towards synergistic research has led to funding for projects in Neuroeconomics and the areas of energy efficiency/resource allocation and its economic impact. In recognition of the ‘global village’ reality of today’s world, our faculty has received funding for their research on how sociopolitical factors affect global economics. SIEPR is excited to devote its resources towards the burgeoning fields of Health Economics and Education Economics.

The majority of our sponsored projects are funded by federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The past couple of years have seen an increasing number of projects being funded internally at Stanford by departments such as the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency. Our sponsors also include foundations such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Koret Foundation.

At SIEPR, we believe that effective economic policy research requires interaction with policy-makers and researchers. Successful projects assemble researchers with different backgrounds, test theory against experience, and produce new and relevant insights.