We are pleased to announce the IZA Award for Innovative Research on a Pressing Public Issue (IRPPI), established on the initiative of the IZA Network Advisory Panel. Continuing the spirit of the previous IRECC award, the IRPPI award will be for innovative economics research on a topic of current public concern.
While IZA as an institute primarily focuses on fundamental, long-run scientific research, we also remain deeply concerned with immediately pressing problems. The IRPPI award underscores our commitment to the relevance of policy and to the careful analysis of widely debated public issues.
This annual award, including a €5,000 prize, will be given to the authors of the best IZA discussion paper, submitted over a calendar year, on the chosen topic of public concern. The IRPPI topic for the next three years (2024-2026) is Artificial Intelligence (AI).