Donna K. Ginther

Funded Research

"Early Career Doctorates, Postdoctoral Researchers and the Scientific Enterprise." 2024—2027. Sloan Foundation grant $1,030,093 (with Bruce Weinberg).

This project takes initial steps in assessing the proper staffing model for STEM laboratories focusing on the tradeoff between using staff scientists and increasingly prevalent postdocs. We focus on the tasks that both groups perform, the skills that they acquire, and the value of those skills in industry.

"Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women's Health." 2024—2029. National Institutes of General Medicine, 1P20GM152280, $11,384,562 (co-investigator and leader of the Biomedical Data Sets and Services Core, with Heather Desaire, principal investigator).

The Biomedical Data Sets and Services Core’s primary innovation will be linking biomedical, environmental, and health records data to survey data that collects demographic, marital status, family structure, education, and employment data to understand how behavior, environment and biology combine to influence health outcomes.

"Improving the Climate in the Field of Economics." 2024—2026. Co-Impact grant to the American Economic Association, $995,000 (with Marianne Bertrand, Anusha Chari, Misty Heggeness and Yana Rodgers).

This project supports the American Economic Association’s effort to address the professional climate by funding the analysis of climate issues as well as programming related to these efforts.

"Using Publication, Patent, and NSF Grant Data Linked to the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to Understand Science Career Trajectories." 2022-2024. National Science Foundation, NCSE-2215606, $400,000 (with Shahnaz Parsaeian and Carlos Zambrana).

This project examines the impact of publications and patents on career outcomes using models that correct for measurement error.