Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial

摘要

We find that CeMENT increased top-tier publications, the total number of publications, and the total number of successful federal grants in treated women relative to controls. The effects are monotonic with respect to time from the intervention and robust to several specification checks designed to control for possible preexisting differences between treatments and controls. These results are encouraging in that publications and grants are important predictors of tenure at most research institutions, and suggest that the intervention had a positive influence on academic productivity. Nonetheless, it is too early to say whether the intervention will have a significant effect on either the probability that women stay in aca-demia, or the probability that they receive tenure.