TY - JOUR
KW - Asian People
KW - Biomedical Research
KW - Black People
KW - Black or African American
KW - Databases, Factual
KW - Education, Graduate
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Fellowships and Scholarships
KW - Financing, Government
KW - Hispanic or Latino
KW - Humans
KW - Likelihood Functions
KW - Models, Statistical
KW - National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
KW - Peer Review, Research
KW - Publishing
KW - Racial Groups
KW - Research Personnel
KW - Research Support as Topic
KW - United States
KW - White People
AU - Donna K. Ginther
AU - Walter T. Schaffer
AU - Joshua Schnell
AU - Beth Masimore
AU - Faye Liu
AU - Laurel L. Haak
AU - Raynard Kington
AB - We investigated the association between a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 applicant's self-identified race or ethnicity and the probability of receiving an award by using data from the NIH IMPAC II grant database, the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and other sources. Although proposals with strong priority scores were equally likely to be funded regardless of race, we find that Asians are 4 percentage points and black or African-American applicants are 13 percentage points less likely to receive NIH investigator-initiated research funding compared with whites. After controlling for the applicant's educational background, country of origin, training, previous research awards, publication record, and employer characteristics, we find that black applicants remain 10 percentage points less likely than whites to be awarded NIH research funding. Our results suggest some leverage points for policy intervention.
BT - Science
DA - 2011-08-19
DO - 10.1126/science.1196783
IS - 6045
LA - eng
N2 - We investigated the association between a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 applicant's self-identified race or ethnicity and the probability of receiving an award by using data from the NIH IMPAC II grant database, the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and other sources. Although proposals with strong priority scores were equally likely to be funded regardless of race, we find that Asians are 4 percentage points and black or African-American applicants are 13 percentage points less likely to receive NIH investigator-initiated research funding compared with whites. After controlling for the applicant's educational background, country of origin, training, previous research awards, publication record, and employer characteristics, we find that black applicants remain 10 percentage points less likely than whites to be awarded NIH research funding. Our results suggest some leverage points for policy intervention.
PY - 2011
SP - 1015
EP - 1019
T2 - Science
TI - Race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards
VL - 333
SN - 1095-9203
ER -