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Grant: Research Institute of Industrial Economics — Genomic Research Methods (Coefficient Giving → Research Institute of Industrial Economics)
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Our claim
entire record- Name
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics — Genomic Research Methods
- Amount
- $500,000
- Currency
- USD
- Date
- August 2016
- Notes
[Scientific Research] Research Institute of Industrial Economics staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $500,000 to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) to support the Social Science Genetic Association … expand
[Scientific Research] Research Institute of Industrial Economics staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $500,000 to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) to support the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC). IFN is a private, non-profit research institute in Stockholm, Sweden, with around 40 researchers. This grant is supporting a scientific collaboration associated with our April 2016 grants to the University of Southern California. This grant falls within our interest in funding basic scientific research, and specifically within our interest in advancing tools and techniques. We hope that our support of this work will advance scientific tools and techniques in several ways, including: By developing cross-cuttingly useful advances in the analysis of data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The researchers plan to develop tools for combining data on genetic associations between multiple traits, hopefully increasing statistical power (which effectively increase sample sizes) across all kinds of medical GWAS, which could make many kinds of medical research less expensive, and accordingly could accelerate new discoveries. By combining data from multiple sources (including data from consumer genetics companies) and developing polygenic scores (or scoring methods) that can be distributed freely as public goods. This could eventually help make social science research more statistically informative, which in turn could make it easier and less expensive to assess the efficacy of interventions designed to improve educational attainment or other outcomes by reducing unexplained variance. Our understanding is that SSGAC has received substantially less funding to date than comparable consortia (such as in psychiatric genetics), but still produces high-quality, replicable research and serves as a model of careful public communication, most notably through their discussions of frequently asked questions.
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- Name
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics — Genomic Research Methods
- Grantee
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics
- Focus Area
- Scientific Research
- Amount
- $500,000.00
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unverifiable95%Haiku 4.5 · 3/25/2026
NoteThe source text provided is a generic informational page about Coefficient Giving's funds and approach. While it confirms that Coefficient Giving exists as a philanthropic funder, it contains no specific information about the grant record in question—no mention of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics, no grant amount of 500000, no date of 2016-08, and no grant titled 'Genomic Research Methods.' The source does not address any of the specific claims in the record, making them unverifiable based on this excerpt.
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