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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
Blau, Francine D.; Currie, Janet; Croson, Rachel T. A.; … - 2021
While much has been written about the potential benefits of mentoring in academia, very little research documents its … effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the … Economics Association. To our knowledge, this is the first randomized trial of a mentoring program in academia. We evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225421
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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial
Ginther, Donna K.; Currie, Janet; Blau, Francine D.; … - 2021
Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313298
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
Rockoff, Jonah E. - 2008
Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but we … know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which … adopted a nationally recognized mentoring program in 2004. I use detailed program data to examine the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772367
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Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition
Canes, Brandice J. - 2011
It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125959
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066279
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Is it Live or is it Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
Figlio, David N. - 2015
This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038759
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Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?
Figlio, David N. - 2013
This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student's first term at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076574
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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153983
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Sex and Science : How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap
Carrell, Scott E. - 2009
Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to obtain a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and comprise only 25 percent of the STEM workforce. This paper begins to shed light on this issue by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159741
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Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors
Carrell, Scott E. - 2010
It is difficult to measure teaching quality at the postsecondary level because students typically quot;self-selectquot; their coursework and their professors. Despite this, student evaluations of professors are widely used in faculty promotion and tenure decisions. We exploit the random...
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