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Appendix E: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Research Abstracts 2012
Pages 139-142

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From page 139...
... While state governments are attentive to targeting female and minority faculty members, dual-career state-level economic conditions when forming their idiosyn hiring initiatives, and ethnic affinity networks for faculty cratic state-level tax policies, the federal government sets a are but a few of the initiatives. Which of these programs uniform national tax policy and is less attentive to individual work?
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From page 140...
... New meth- able to identify different fields and populations impacted ods will be developed for analyzing individual-level data by the phenomenon of extended time to degree and thereby from the SDR panels, using multinomial logit methods in make more informed decisions about effective strategies to hierarchical linear models, in which individuals are embed- promote timely doctoral degree completion. This project ded in institutions.
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From page 141...
... as well as the effectiveness of that R&D. Broader Impact: At the policy level, the study provides theoretically motivated and empirically rigorous insights Sharon Sassle, Cornell University for directing investment in innovation for the America "Race and Gender Variation in STEM Employment and COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010: characteristics Retention: A Cohort Analysis Using SESTAT Data" of firms likely to generate the highest returns to that invest The continuing underrepresentation of women, Blacks, ment (who)
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... These investments and the need White or Asian men to be employed in most STEM occupa- to increase the numbers of women and underrepresented tions, particularly outside the life sciences. But little existing minority scientists to maintain the future health of the STEM research studies trends over time in gender and race-ethnic workforce make retention of STEM workers in related differences in STEM employment or factors underlying these occupations a critical policy issue.
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