Would Increased National Science Foundation Research Support to Economists at Historically Black College and Universities Increase Their Research Productivity?

Price, Gregory N.

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“…According to Agesa, Granger, and Price (2002), the heavy focus on teaching is a "major impediment to research output of economists at HBCUs" (p. 88). Interestingly, this research supports the notion that increased grant money from organizations such as the National Science Foundation for HBCU economists explicitly enables these faculty members to improve their productivity in terms of published articles in refereed economics publications (Price, 2007). In the case of economics, faculty exposure through publications is thought to shed light on the African American perspective, though this idea has barely been examined empirically (Betsey, 2007).…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Both anecdotal and empirical evidence support significant disparities in faculty experiences at HBCUs and HWIs, more generally as well as with emphases on academic subject areas (Agesa, Granger, and Price, 2002;Betsey, 2007;Price, 2007;Renzulli, Grant, and Kathuria, 2006). Regardless, most of the literature points to the lack of faculty socialization at HBCUs (Johnson, 2001;Johnson and Harvey, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, multiple scholars have pointed out issues related to socialization, satisfaction, low salaries, high teaching loads, productivity (such as articles in peer-reviewed publications), gender gaps in pay and rank, and lack of shared governance (Agesa, Granger, and Price, 2002;Betsey, 2007;Price, 2007;Renzulli, Grant, and Kathuria, 2006).…”

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Executive SummaryForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction and OverviewHistorical Origins of HBCUsDesegregationThe Language of Higher Education DesegregationPre‐Brown CasesBrown I and IIBrown and HBCUsPost‐Brown HBCU RebuttalSanders v. EllingtonKnight v. AlabamaFordice CasesPost‐Fordice to the PresentStudentsCollege ChoiceGenderAfrican American MalesAfrican American FemalesCampus EnvironmentsGraduation and OutcomesPresidential LeadershipFaculty and Governance IssuesFaculty DiversityCritique of GovernanceGeneral Overview of Faculty IssuesFundraisingA History of FundraisingAlumni GivingEducating Alumni EarlyIssues of InfrastructureEndowment SizeFederal and State PolicyLegislationState Policies Toward HBCUsCurriculumProfessional FieldsGraduate WorkBlack Medical Schools and Medical EducationEngineering at HBCUsAccreditationConclusion and Thoughts About the FutureAppendix: Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesReferencesAdditional ReadingsName IndexSubject IndexAbout the Authors

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“…Research has found that the National Science Foundation (NSF) research support to black economists at HBCUs who have never been funded by the NSF increases their research productivity substantially (Price 2007). This paper joins this line of research to fill the gap in the current literature by focusing on another type of foundation giving.…”

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Foundation Giving and Economics Research Productivity at HBCUs: Empirical Evidence from the Koch Foundation

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Lai²,

Myers

et al. 2020

J Econ Race Policy

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Existing research on funding disparities between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and non-HBCUs primarily focuses on government funding and pays little attention to foundation giving. This paper helps to fill this gap by examining the effects of funding by the Charles Koch Foundation-a major funder of economics research in the USA-on the economics research productivity at HBCUs. Using data from the foundation's tax forms, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and Scopus, this paper examines factors that explain the foundation's grant results and how the foundation's money affects economics research productivity at HBCUs. The paper estimates the effects of Koch funding on three different measures of HBCU productivity: number of publications, citations, and publications in top economics journals. We report ordinary least squares, two-step generalized linear model, and Poisson results that show little or no impact from (a) recipiency of a Koch grant, (b) the total amount of grant dollars, or (c) the average amount of grant dollars on research productivity. We also obtain event study and difference-indifferences estimates of the effects of Koch grants to HBCUs on publications and publications per faculty member and again find no statistically significant impacts. The evidence obtained-consistent across different model specifications and estimation techniques-does not support the hypothesis that Koch's funding to HBCUs is primarily geared towards enhancing the research productivity of these colleges and universities. The paper discusses alternative explanations for the Charles Koch Foundation's targeting strategy and its involvement with particular HBCUs.

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Minority Faculty Hiring Power in Academe: An Economic Model

Faria

Loureiro

Mixon

et al. 2016

The Review of Black Political Economy

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This paper investigates whether minorities in academe exercise bargaining power in a way that influences hiring of other minority faculty. We develop a stylized model that shows how minorities influence the hiring of other minorities, taking into account the hiring of majority faculty. We postulate that such behavior is similar to the behavior of insider workers in the context of the insider-outsider literature.

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Would Increased National Science Foundation Research Support to Economists at Historically Black College and Universities Increase Their Research Productivity?

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