Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding

Laura Cruz-Castro, Donna Ginther and Luis Sanz-Menendez

No 30107, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially narrowed in Europe. Underrepresented minorities are less likely to receive research funding that whites in the United States. We found that much of the literature was a series of informative independent studies where many of the potential explanations depended upon the context. Our examination of peer review also found contradictory evidence of its efficacy. The variety of countries, funders, and approaches to peer review make it difficult to make definitive conclusions in the face of contradictory evidence on the gender funding gap. We conclude that access to high-quality administrative data would allow for improved methodological approaches to understanding these differences in research funding.

JEL-codes: O3 O31 O34 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06
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