Working Paper: NBER ID: w28727
Authors: Donna K. Ginther; Rina Na
Abstract: Previous research has shown that women in the treatment group of the CeMENT randomized controlled trial increased their publications and the likelihood that they were tenured in top 50 economics departments. This paper examines one potential mechanism, namely, that CeMENT expanded the collaboration networks of the participants. Our analysis finds that women who received the mentoring treatment had three additional pre-tenure coauthors, 1.6 more pre-tenure publications and 43 additional citations to those publications. After controlling for additional coauthors, the CeMENT program increased publications, and top-tier publications. These results suggest that the information conveyed at the workshop facilitated participants’ career success.
Keywords: mentoring; collaboration networks; female economists; randomized controlled trial
JEL Codes: A11; J16; J4
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| Cement mentoring program (M53) | Increase in collaboration networks (O36) |
| Cement mentoring program (M53) | Increase of three additional pretenure coauthors (A14) |
| Cement mentoring program (M53) | 16% more pretenure publications (A14) |
| Cement mentoring program (M53) | 43% more citations to publications (A14) |
| Cement mentoring program (M53) | 0.21 additional top-tier publications (A14) |
| Cement mentoring program (M53) | Increased publication outcomes (total citations) (A14) |
| Cement mentoring program (M53) | Indirect effects on publication outcomes (A14) |