Mentoring in higher education: does it enhance mentees’ research productivity?

Julia Muschallik and Kerstin Pull

Education Economics, 2016, vol. 24, issue 2, 210-223

Abstract: Mentoring programs are increasingly widespread in academia. Still, comparatively little is known about their effects. With the help of a self-collected dataset of 368 researchers in two different fields and accounting for self-selection via matching techniques, we find mentees in formal mentoring programs to be more productive than comparable researchers who do not participate in a formal program -- irrespective of whether these instead have an informal mentor or not. Informal mentoring relationships, to the contrary, do not positively affect mentees’ research productivity.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2014.997676

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