Mentoring in higher education: does it enhance mentees' research productivity?. Issue 2 (3rd March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Muschallik, Julia; Pull, Kerstin
• Is Part Of: Education economics. Volume 24:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 210
• Page End: 223
• Publication Date: 2016-03-03
• Subjects: mentoring -- human capital -- social capital -- productivity -- self-selection -- matching; Education -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; 338.4737
• DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2014.997676
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-5292

Abstract

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.