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├── final_paper # Final writeup and presentation slides
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Mental illnesses pose a profound burden to individuals and society, affecting nearly one out of every five Americans. Given the need for innovation in treatment development, this paper seeks to elucidate the relationships between federal research funding (through the National Institute of Mental Health), innovation, and seniority of principal investigators receiving grant funding for research. Though literature suggests that innovation is often driven by more junior researchers, we find that between Fiscal Years 2010 and 2018, senior researchers received substantially higher amounts of funding for research, presenting a trade-off that must be considered related to the longer-term impacts of innovation.
