The World Inequality Lab (WIL) currently operates with an annual budget of about 1.2-1.3 million euros, mainly sourced from public research institutions, public organizations, and non-profit organizations.
Over the entire 2010-2025 period, our total resources (including faculty research time) can be broken down as follows:
- 31% of our ressources are provided by several grants from the European Research Council (ERC): one Advanced Research Grant, one Synergy Grant, and one grant from the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme
- 19% is provided by the universities, research centers and statistics offices hosting the WID Fellows
- 15% is financed by the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and its partner institutions (in particular the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Ecole Normale Supérieure)
- 10% is provided by the Ford Foundation
- 7% is financed by Berkeley University
- 3% is provided by the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)
- 3% is financed by the United Nations Development Programme
- 3% is financed by the Sloan Foundation
- 3% is financed by the Hewlett Foundation
- 2% is financed by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom through an ESRC-DFID joint fund grant
- 3% by other institutions including the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and Norwegian and French National Development Agencies (NORAD, AFD)
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