Fulcrum Project

We're huge optimists about the potential of economics to do good. We try to live this ourselves, using economic analysis to accelerate productivity growth and the end of extreme poverty. We want to support and enable future generations of economists who share our ambition: to do research that produces tangible benefits to humanity. The Fulcrum Project is our collaboration in pursuit of that goal.

The fellowship is one way in which we do this. It provides $10K of unrestricted research funding; training in a problem-driven approach to research; opportunities for advice and mentorship, both from the two of us and from a larger network of economists we admire, across a number of universities, for their abilities and their impact; and membership in a community of like-minded scholars. All of this is designed to be additive to, not an alternative to, the exceptional training that fellows can already expect to receive in their “home” PhD programs.