Donna K. Ginther

Working Papers and Publications

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Research Papers in Economics

Working Papers

• "Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage." November, 2007. IZA Discussion Paper 3189. (with Anders Björklund and Marianne Sundström).


• "Does Scientific Innovation Lead to Entrepreneurship? A Comparison of Academic and Industry Sectors."


• "Diversity in Academic Biomedicine: An Evaluation of Education and Career Outcomes with Implications for Policy." 2009. (with Walter T. Schaffer, Joshua Schnell, Beth Masimore, Faye Liu, Laurel L. Haak, and Raynard S. Kington.)


• "Does Marriage Lead to Specialization? An Evaluation of Swedish Trends in Adult Earnings Before and After Marriage." 2010. (with Marianne Sundström.)

Publications

• "Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape." (2014) Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 15(3): 75-141 with Stephen J. Ceci, Shulamit Kahn, and Wendy M. Williams).


• "Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?" Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter, Winter 2013, 10-12.


• "Education and Academic Career Pathways for Women of Color in Science and Engineering," (forthcoming) in Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia: A Conference Report. Washington, DC: National Academy Press (with Shulamit Kahn).


• "Are Race, Ethnicity, and Medical School Affiliation Associated with NIH R01 Type Award Probability for Physician Investigators?" Academic Medicine 87(11): 1516-1524 (with Laurel Haak, Walter Schaffer and Raynard Kington).


• "Standards and Infrastructure for Innovation Data Exchange." 12 October 2012. Science 338: 196-197 (with Laurel L. Haak, David Baker, Gregg J. Gordon, Matthew A. Probus, Nirmala Kannankutty, and Bruce A. Weinberg).


• "Women’s Careers in Academic Social Science: Progress, Pitfalls and Plateaus." Forthcoming in The Economics of Economists, edited by Alessandro Lanteri and Jack Vromen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


• "Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards." 19 August 2011. Science. 333: 1015-1019 (with Walter Schaffer, Joshua Schnell, Beth Masimore, Faye Liu, Laurel Haak and Raynard Kington).


• Video of Donna Ginther Discussing the research findings. Link: https://documents.ku.edu/users2/hattig/ginther/Ginther_draft01-LAN.mov


• Related Research: "Diversity in Academic Biomedicine: An Evaluation of Education and Career Outcomes with Implications for Policy." September 2009. (with Walter Schaffer, Joshua Schnell, Beth Masimore, Faye Liu, Laurel Haak and Raynard Kington).


• Zip file with de-identified data and STATA programs for replicating the results in "Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Awards."
  Link: http://report.nih.gov/FileLink.aspx?rid=804


• "An Interview with James J. Heckman." 2010. Macroeconomic Dynamics. 14: 548-584.


• "Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial." 2010. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 100(2): 348-352. (with Francine D. Blau, Janet M. Currie, and Rachel T.A. Croson).


• "A Review of Women at Work: An Economic Perspective" edited by Tito Boeri, Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Pissarides. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xiv + 287 pp., ISBN 0 19 928187 4, £55.00. September 2010. British Journal of Industrial Relations.48:3 644-646.


• "Gender Issues among Academic AMS Members: Comparisons with the 1993 Membership Survey." August 2009. Bulletin of the American Meterological Society. 90:8 1180-1191. (with Donna Tucker and Julie A. Winkler).


• "Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973 - 2001" 2009. Science and Engineering Careers in the United States. Richard B. Freeman and Daniel F. Goroff (eds), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago. Press for NBER Science Engineering Workforce Project.with Shulamit Kahn).


• "Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the USA and Sweden." 2007. Journal of Population Economics. 20: 183-201 (with Anders Björklund and Marianne Sundström).


• "Economics of Gendered Distribution of Resources in Academe." 2006. In Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in Science and Engineering: Workshop Report. Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 56-60.


• "The Economics of Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes in Academia." 2006. In Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in Science and Engineering: Workshop Report. Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 99-112.


• "Does the Beige Book Move Financial Markets?" 2005. Southern Economic Journal 72(July):138-151. (with Madeline Zavodny).


• "Does Job Displacement Explain Wage Inequality: A Nonparametric Examination" 2003-2004. Journal of Income Distribution 12(3-4):131-148. (with K. Patrick Lampani).


• "Family Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions" 2004. Demography. 41(4):671-696. (with Robert Pollak).


• "Women in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?" 2004. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 18(3): 193-214.


• "Why Women Earn Less: Economic Explanations for the Gender Salary Gap in Science." 2004. AWIS Magazine. 33(1):6-10.


• "Is MIT the Exception? Gender Pay Differentials in Academic Science 1973-1997." 2003. Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society. 23(1):21-26.


• "Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion for Faculty in the Humanities" 2003. Journal of Human Resources. 38(1):34-73. (with Kathy J. Hayes).


• Technology, Growth and the Labor Market. 2002. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Press, (with Madeline Zavodny).


• "A Discussion of Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality." 2002. In Technology, Growth and the Labor Market. Edited by Donna K. Ginther and Madeline Zavodny. 2002. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Press. 161-167.


• "Preface: Technology, Growth, and the Labor Market." 2002. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 87(Third Quarter):v-viii. (with Madeline Zavodny).


• "Women in the Economics Pipeline: How do we compare to other disciplines?" 2002. Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter. Winter: 6-7.


• "Integrated Conditional Moment Testing of Quantile Regression Models". 2001. Empirical Economics. 26(1):307-324. (with Herman Bierens).


• "Integrated Conditional Moment Testing of Quantile Regression Models". 2002. Reprinted in Studies in Empirical Economics: Economic Applications of Quantile Regression. Edited by Bernd Fitzenberger, Roger Koenker, and Jose A.F. Machado. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag. 307-324. (with Herman Bierens).


• "Regional Research and Development Intensity and Earnings Inequality". 2001. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review. 86(Second Quarter):13-26. (with Susan Dadres).


• “The Beige Book: Timely Information on the Regional Economy,” Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review Third Quarter 2001, 86:19-29 (with Madeline Zavodny).


• “Employment of Women and Demand-Side Forces,” in Research in Labor Economics: Worker Wellbeing in a Changing Labor Market edited by Solomon W. Polachek. Oxford: Elsevier. Volume 20, 2001, 289-309 (with Chinhui Juhn).


• “Is the Male Marriage Premium Due to Selection? The Effect of Shotgun Weddings on the Return to Marriage,” Journal of Population Economics, June 2001. 14:2, 313-328 (with Madeline Zavodny).


• “Neighborhood Characteristics as Determinants of Children's Outcomes: How Robust are the Results?” The Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2000, 35:4, 603-642 (with Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe).


• “Alternative Estimates of the Effect of Schooling on Earnings,” The Review of Economics and Statistics 2000, 82:1, 103-116


• “A Nonparametric Analysis of the U.S. Earnings Distribution,” in Advances in Econometrics: Applying Kernel and Nonparametric Estimation to Economic Topics edited by Thomas B. Fomby and R. Carter Hill. Stamford, Connecticut: JAI Press Volume 14, 2000, 275-307.


• “Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion in the Humanities,” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 1999 89:2, 397-402 (with Kathy Hayes).


• “The "Window Problem" in Studies of Children's Attainments: A Methodological Exploration,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1996, 91:435, 970-982 (with Barbara Wolfe, Robert Haveman, and Chong Bum An).