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Publication Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards(Science, 2011-08-19) Ginther, Donna K.; Schaffer, Walter T.; Schnell, Joshua; Masimore, Beth; Liu, Faye; Haak, Laurel L.; Kington, Raynard S.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.Publication Diversity in Academic Biomedicine: An Evaluation of Education and Career Outcomes with Implications for Policy(Center for Science, Technology, & Economic Policy, 2009-09-22) Ginther, Donna K.; Schaffer, Walter T.; Schnell, Joshua; Masimore, Beth; Liu, Faye; Haak, Laurel L.; Kington, Raynard S.Currently, the U.S. population is undergoing major racial and ethnic demographic shifts that could affect the pool of individuals interested in pursuing a career in biomedical research. To achieve its mission of improving health, the National Institutes of Health must recruit and train outstanding individuals for the biomedical workforce. In this study, we examined the educational transition rates in the biomedical sciences by gender, race, and ethnicity, from high school to academic career outcomes. Using a number of educational databases, we investigated gender and racial/ethnic representation at typical educational and career milestones en route to faculty careers in biomedicine. We then employed multivariate regression methods to examine faculty career outcomes, using the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Doctorate Recipients. We find that while transitions between milestones are distinctive by gender and race/ethnicity, the transitions between high school and college and between college and graduate school are critical points at which underrepresented minorities are lost from the biomedical pipeline, suggesting some specific targets for policy intervention.Publication An Evaluation of the Kansas Bioscience Authority: Economic Impact Measures(Center for Science, Technology, & Economic Policy, 2012-06) Ginther, Donna K.; Oslund, Patricia; Kennedy, Emily J.In the fall of 2011, the Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA) requested that the University of Kansas Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy at the Institute for Policy & Social Research provide a review of KBA’s Direct Outcomes Description and Measurement Policy. This policy informs KBA's collection of economic impact data and frames KBA’s policies more generally in light of technology evaluation. This report responds to KBA's request and addresses the following topics: 1) general challenges of technology evaluation; 2) the scope of KBA’s technology programs; 3) the contributions of KBA’s current measures to overall program evaluation; 4) measures that might be added or enhanced in the future; and 5) a comparison of this review to other efforts to evaluate KBA. This report discusses the inherent difficulty of measuring long‐term scientific investments with short‐term indicators of future economic impact. KBA has several programs designed to increase bioscience research, foster commercial development, and attract new ventures to the state of Kansas. Each of these activities requires different metrics to evaluate its overall impact. We reviewed these metrics and compared them to those being collected by similar state agencies as well as the federal STAR METRICS program. Our review shows that KBA collects more metrics than agencies reviewed in other states. KBA also collects many of the indicators used in the federal STAR METRICS program. We recommend that KBA enhance its measures by including additional STAR METRICS measures such as patent citations, scientific publications, and workforce development indicators including students trained in bioscience on KBA funded projects. Although, KBA has been reviewed on two previous occasions, this report provides new information on the quality of the economic impact data they collect. Overall, we find that KBA collects a comprehensive set of outcome measures that span the scope of KBA’s mission and provide the basis for understanding the economic impact of their scientific investments.Publication The Status of Women in Kansas and the Bi-State Region(2016-02) Ginther, Donna K.; Oslund, Patricia; Hurd, Genna; Wedel, XanPublication An Evaluation of Community College Enrollments(2017-12) Ginther, Donna K.; Oslund, PatriciaPublication The Success of Transfer Students and Four-Year Starters in Completing Bachelor’s Degrees(2017) Ginther, Donna K.; Oslund, PatriciaPublication Growing New Ventures and Jobs in Kansas: An In-Depth Review of Entrepreneurship Activities and Policies in Kansas and How We Compare(2020-01) Ginther, Donna K.; Myers, Nancy Cayton; Becker, Thomas; Jorgenson, Lindsay ElliottPublication The Status of Women in Kansas: A Summary Report to United WE(2022-02) Ginther, Donna K.; Hurd, Genna; Wedel, Xan; Becker, Thomas; Oslund, PatriciaPublication The Governor’s Council on Tax Reform: Final Report(2022-01) Lee, Janis; Morris, Steve; Courtwright, Chris; Frahm, Lon; Goossen, Duane; Grisolano, Joe; Hays, Dennis; Hensley, Anthony; Hineman, Don; Kimball, Shannon; Langworthy, Audrey; Monk-Morgan, V. Kaye; Sawyer, Tom; Sherman, Susan; Swartzendruber, Anthony; Sykes, Dinah; Weians, Larry; Wilson, John; Burghart, Mark A.; Proffitt, Adam; Lorenz, Julie; Toland, David; Ginther, Donna K.; Oslund, Patricia; Becker, Thomas; Jorgenson, Lindsay; Wedel, Xan; Caine, CarolynPublication Economic Costs to Kansas Due to State’s Failure to Expand Medicaid(2022-05) Ayan, Davut; Ginther, Donna K.; Slusky, David J.G.Kansas is one of only 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, despite the federal government covering more than the cost with additional Biden administration incentives. This report compares Kansas to states that expanded Medicaid in 2014 as well as states that did not expand Medicaid as of 2019. Compared to other non-expansion states, Kansas Medicaid expenditures are increasing post-2014, private insurance companies are increasing expenditures, families are paying higher health insurance premiums, and hospitals and providers are administering more health care services and prescriptions. Kansas residents are paying for healthcare differently than consumers in other states as a result of their state government’s decision to not expand Medicaid eligibility under the ACA. 1) Kansas taxpayers are paying federal taxes which helps fund other states’ expansions, allowing those states to draw down a higher percentage of federal reimbursement; 2) their state taxes are funding the increased state spending on its privatized Medicaid program, or “managed care”, despite a stated goal of reducing healthcare costs; 3) an increasingly higher proportion of their local mill levies are being used by counties to support their local or regional hospital districts; and 4) privately insured Kansans are paying higher health insurance premiums to cover providers’ increasing service delivery volumes.Publication The Unexpected Costs of Not Expanding Medicaid in Kansas(2022-05) Ginther, Donna K.; Ayan, Davut; Slusky, David J.G.A 2022 study conducted by researchers at the University of Kansas Institute for Policy & Social Research examined and quantified the economic costs of the Kansas government’s decision to forgo Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The researchers looked at various expenditures in Kansas, as compared to states that expanded Medicaid in 2014 per the ACA and states that had not yet expanded Medicaid as of 2019. This issue brief highlights specific findings from the analysis.Publication Association of Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Case Rates, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in Kansas(American Medical Association, 2021-06-23) Ginther, Donna K.; Zambrana, CarlosThis study examined the association between mask mandates in Kansas counties and COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The Kansas executive order that took effect on July 3 was adopted by only 15 counties, and 68 counties did not have a mandate through October. A second mask mandate order took effect on November 25, and 40 additional counties adopted it.Publication EAGER: Data Infrastructure to Enhance Research on the Scientific Workforce(2019-11) Ginther, Donna K.; Zambrana, Carlos; Oslund, PatriciaThe National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the National Science Foundation collects high-quality data on the scientific workforce, but these data are not as widely utilized by the larger Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) community because of changes in survey instruments over time and the data format restrictions. The NSF only supports SAS for NCSES data whereas the majority of researchers use STATA. This project breaks down the barriers to using SESTAT and SDR data for the SciSIP community that in the long-run, could yield new insights about science policy.Publication Economic Impact of Immigration in Kansas City and the Bi-State Region(Institute for Policy & Social Research, The University of Kansas, 2014-11-25) Ginther, Donna K.; Oslund, Pat C.; Boden, JenThe Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation commissioned researchers from the Center for Science Technology & Economic Policy at the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas to study the characteristics and economic impact of immigration in the states of Kansas and Missouri with a special focus on the Kansas City metropolitan area. This report documents the characteristics of immigrants in these three geographic areas. Where relevant, we make comparisons with other metro areas and with the US as a whole. We compare the foreign‐born population with the native‐born population to try to identify the economic niches that immigrants fill in our communities and to assess some of the challenges they may face. Our report paints a statistical portrait of immigration in the bi‐state area.Publication KU Libraries Digital Data Services Strategy(2013-01-16) McEathron, Scott R.Publication Professional Worker Career Experience Survey (PWCES) Data and Metadata(2009-10-06T14:23:26Z) Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Ash, Ronald A.The Professional Worker Career Experience Survey (PWCES) contains responses from 752 working professionals who were surveyed between December 2003 and September 2004. The survey contains a rich combination of data on personal education and work histories, family structure, employment and demographic characteristics, and variety of personality scales. These data are available for download as a text file (.csv) and as a STATA (.dta) file. Anyone is free to use these data for scholarly purposes, but as a condition of use they must include a citation to this users guide in any papers or published articles that employ these data.