EAGER: CeMENT as a Networking Experiment

该奖项资助的研究将首先评估一个旨在促进女性在科学领域的职业生涯的项目的长期记录，然后测试有关长期结果原因的假设。妇女在经济专业地位委员会（CSWEP）在1990年代发展了水泥指导讲习班，以促进妇女在经济科学领域的职业生涯。水泥被创建为一个随机对照实验，前三个队列的评估表明，指导治疗提高了参与者的学术生产力。据推测，水泥改善了妇女的预后，因为它：a)扩大了专业协作网络；B)提供了提高生产率的隐性知识；C)建立专业支持网络；D)这里没有考虑的其他机制；或者e)以上所有。女性在经济学专业的代表性仍然不足。本研究将确定师徒计划是否继续对女性经济学家的职业生涯产生积极影响，从而为寻求扩大女性在该职业中的代表性的实践提供信息。研究结果还将帮助我们确定具体的指导方法，这些方法可能对面临类似问题的其他科学有用。经济学家已经研究了网络和劳动力市场结果之间的关系，但很少有研究确定了网络的因果关系，因为它们是内生决定的。水泥项目旨在扩大协作和支持的专业网络。因此，它提供了一个机会来检查外生变化的专业网络对女性经济学家的职业生涯的因果影响。研究结果将有助于我们了解专业网络对科学事业的影响。

This award funds research that will first evaluate the long-term record of a program designed to promote women's careers in science and then test hypotheses about the reasons for the long-term results. The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) developed the CeMENT mentoring workshop in the 1990s to promote women's careers in economic science. CeMENT was created as a randomized controlled experiment, and evaluation of the first three cohorts has shown that the mentoring treatment enhanced participants' academic productivity. It is hypothesized that CeMENT improved outcomes for women because it: a) expanded professional collaborative networks; b) provided tacit knowledge that improved productivity; c) created professional support networks;d) some other mechanism not accounted for here; or e) all of the above. Women continue to be under-represented in the economics profession. This research will identify whether the mentoring program continues to have positive effects on the careers of women economists, and thus inform practices that seek to broaden the representation of women in the profession. The results will also help us identify specific mentoring methods that may be useful for other sciences that face similar issues.Economists have examined the association between networks and labor market outcomes, but fewstudies have identified the causal effects of networks because they are endogenously determined. The CeMENT program is designed to expand professional networks for both collaboration and support. It therefore provides an opportunity to examine the causal effect of an exogenous change in professional networks on the careers of female economists. The results will contribute to our knowledge of the impact of professional networks on scientific careers.