Mentor prestige, job market signals, and career outcomes in economics

Sheena Murray, Wendy Stock and Andrew Hussey

Education Economics, 2026, vol. 34, issue 2, 229-246

Abstract: Using rich data on a cohort of students from several economics PhD programs, we examine whether dissertation committee and advisor prestige are related to graduates’ career outcomes and research collaborations with mentors. Mentor prestige has little direct value for predicting graduates’ career outcomes, particularly for men and graduates from top-tier PhD programs. Women graduates from lower-tier programs who had highly prestigious advisors were more likely to initially place in tenure-track jobs but less likely to be in academia 10 years post-PhD. Relationships between publishing with mentors during graduate school and career outcomes also differ by program rank and gender.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2025.2492337

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