Women Helping Women? Role Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Students in Economics

David Neumark and Rosella Gardecki

Journal of Human Resources, 1998, vol. 33, issue 1, 220-246

Abstract: One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics is to encourage mentoring relationships between these students and female faculty members, via increased hiring of female faculty, or having female faculty serve as dissertation chairs for female students. This paper examines whether either of these strategies results in more successful outcomes for female graduate students, using survey information on female graduate students and faculties of Ph.D.-producing economics departments. The empirical evidence provides virtually no support for the hypothesis that initial job placements for female graduate students are improved by adding female faculty members, or by having a female dissertation chair. However, female faculty members appear to reduce time spent in graduate school by female students.

Date: 1998
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