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科学职业生涯的项目的长期记录，然后测试关于长期结果原因的假设。妇女在经济专业中的地位委员会(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。水泥是作为随机对照实验创建的，对前三个队列的评估表明，辅导治疗提高了参与者的学习效率。据推测，巩固改善妇女的成果是因为：a)扩大了专业协作网络；b)提供了提高生产力的默会知识；c)创建了专业支助网络；d)其他一些机制没有在此考虑；或e)以上所有内容。女性在经济专业中的比例仍然偏低。这项研究将确定辅导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做法提供参考。这些结果还将帮助我们确定具体的指导方法，这些方法可能对其他面临类似问题的科学有用。经济学家们研究了网络和劳动力市场结果之间的关联，但很少有研究确定网络的因果影响，因为它们是由内生决定的。水泥计划旨在扩大合作和支持的专业网络。因此，它提供了一个机会，来检验职业网络的外生变化对女性经济学家职业生涯的因果影响。这些结果将有助于我们了解专业网络对科学职业的影响。

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.