Idea Labs

The Idea Labs function as convening hubs for Columbia faculty and students to advance new thinking, affect graduate training, and incubate ideas. Concerned with developing new intellectual frameworks in economics and related fields that take seriously power, equity, and uncertainty, the Labs create opportunities for faculty and students to engage with practitioners and policymakers, and support, identify, and advance the most promising recent developments in academic thinking. The Labs have an intentional cross-disciplinary focus and bring together economics, history, law, political science, sociology, public health, engineering, data science, and other fields.

As multi-year projects, each Idea Lab will do the following:

• Host a Postdoctoral Research Scholar;
• Provide Faculty Grants and, starting in the Center’s second year, Graduate Student Grants on related topics;
• Host and co-host relevant conferences, seminars, workshops, and other public and semi-public events; and
• Generate scholarly publications and public-facing reports.

We encourage you to join an Idea Lab as an engaged faculty member to explore and shape the next generation of thinking. To learn more, please contact [email protected].