This study examines the relationship between team's gender composition and outputs of funded projects using a large data set of National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants and their associated publications between 1990 and 2017. This study finds that while the women investigators' presence in NIH grants is generally low, higher women investigator presence is on average related to slightly lower number of publications. This study finds empirically that women investigators elect to work in fields in which fewer publications per million-dollar funding is the norm. For fields where women investigators are relatively well represented, they are as productive as men. The overall lower productivity of women investigators may be attributed to the low representation of women in high productivity fields dominated by men investigators. The findings shed light on possible reasons for gender disparity in grant productivity.

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受资助项目生产力的性别失衡：美国国立卫生研究院 R01 赠款的产出研究

本研究使用 1990 年至 2017 年间美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) R01 拨款及其相关出版物的大型数据集，检查团队的性别构成与受资助项目产出之间的关系。本研究发现，虽然女性研究人员在 NIH补助金普遍较低，平均而言，女性调查员人数较多与出版物数量略少有关。本研究根据经验发现，女性调查员选择在每百万美元资金中较少发表论文的领域工作是常态。对于女性调查员人数相对较多的领域，她们与男性一样富有成效。女性调查员的整体生产力较低可能归因于女性在男性调查员主导的高生产力领域的代表性较低。