Securing research funding is critical for scientific progress and career advancement, yet a persistent gender gap in funding may shape who conducts research, and ultimately, the direction of science. We study whether part of this gap arises at the application...

This project proposes a pilot randomized evaluation of a Virtual Visiting Scholars Program (VVSP) targeting prospective pre-doctoral researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with quantitative undergraduate degrees in STEM disciplines, aiming...

Identifying and nurturing high-potential individuals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is central to expanding innovation capacity and promoting inclusive economic growth. National Mathematical Olympiads (NMOs) are a rapidly growing yet understudied...

Our pilot study investigates whether access to funding influences the quality of ideas generated by agricultural scientists working in Anglophone West Africa. Our pilot will accomplish two concrete tasks. First, we will assemble administrative, CV, and...

Research and development (R&D) is widely thought to be an important determinant of improvements in living standards, health, and life expectancy. Quantifying the social returns to government R&D spending and assessing whether citizens value such spending --...

In this project, the researchers will address the issue of underrepresentation of women in STEM by focusing on the participation of girls in advanced coding clubs in the Italian context. Preliminary results from another experiment show that single-sex coding...

The researchers are planning to run a randomized experiment encouraging the take-up of visa-application assistance with their partner organization, Plymouth Street. The research design leverages recent, little-known changes in eligibility for the O-1A visa...

Women, racial minorities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds continue to be underrepresented in innovation. Yet, differences in ability, as measured by math test scores in early childhood, explain very little of these disparities. In the proposed...

While science plays a central role in economic growth, the production of new knowledge is predominantly concentrated in a handful of high-income countries. Scientists in low- and middle-income countries often face significant challenges in their careers...

In this project, partnering with the Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) and the Government of Tamil Nadu, the researchers will test whether advanced online coursework and tutoring can identify and support high achievers in mathematics in rural Tamil Nadu. The...

Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is a partnership of philanthropic organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs and other forms of scholarship. They believe that open research accelerates the pace of discovery, reduces information-sharing...

Inequality among innovators is a substantial social problem, and the gender gap in patenting is worse than in scientific publication or for the STEM workforce more broadly. One potential explanation is unconscious bias in attribution—women may be more likely...

Scientists routinely leave findings undisclosed. This "file drawer" of science distorts the evidence base and misallocates R&D spending. Yet there is almost no research on how to recover filedrawered findings. We will run a field experiment to study incentives...