Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economics Association established the CeMENT mentoring workshop to support …

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 …

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 …

Chicago public schools found participation increased math test scores by 0.16 standard deviations (SDs) and increased grades … for high school graduation are imprecise. The treatment effects do not appear to be the result of a generic "mentoring …

, largely due to the fact that students significantly outnumber teachers. Data from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Australia …

"unobserved characteristics" of schools that are correlated with unionism. The major findings are that: 1. unionism raises faculty … union impact because unionized schools tend to have been higher paying even before organization …

demand instruments. The results indicate that schools have significant monopsony power over their tenure track faculty. Its … labor supply curves. Universities' market power over tenure track faculty does not differ between public and private schools …