Graduate Fellowships & Awards
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) supports graduate students each year through graduate fellowships and research funding.
The George P. Shultz Dissertation Support Fund
Applications open September 23, 2026.
Application deadline October 23, 2026.
Each fall and spring quarter, SIEPR invites graduate students to apply for research funding through the George P. Shultz Dissertation Support Fund. This fund supports students who are gathering and working with primary economic data. The award is provided as a stipend, which can be used to pay for travel and expenses related to building original data sets or acquiring commercial data sets.
The Claire and Ralph Landau Student Discussion Paper Prize 2026
The Claire and Ralph Landau Student Discussion Paper Prize is awarded annually in the late spring for the best student-written SIEPR working paper.
The $2,500 prize is a tribute to the Landaus and their countless contributions to SIEPR and Stanford’s economics department. The range of eligible topics is as broad as Ralph Landau’s interests were in economics — papers can deal with any issue involving the formulation or evaluation of economic policy.
Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowships
These fellowships provide up to three-quarters of support to qualified Stanford applicants who are pursuing policy-relevant economics research and who are entering the final year of their PhD program. Applications for 2027-2028 will open in the spring of 2027.