EAGER: CeMENT as a Networking Experiment

该奖项资助的研究将首先评估旨在促进女性科学事业的计划的长期记录，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在1990年代开办了CeMENT辅导讲习班，以促进妇女在经济科学领域的职业生涯。CeMENT是作为一个随机对照实验创建的，对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，CEMENT改善了妇女的成果，因为它：a）扩大了专业合作网络; B）提供了提高生产力的隐性知识; c）创建了专业支持网络;d）这里没有考虑的其他机制;或e）上述所有因素。 妇女在经济专业中的代表性仍然不足。这项研究将确定指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行业的代表性的做法提供信息。研究结果还将帮助我们确定可能对面临类似问题的其他科学有用的具体指导方法。经济学家已经研究了网络和劳动力市场结果之间的联系，但很少有研究确定网络的因果效应，因为它们是内生决定的。该CeMENT计划旨在扩大专业网络的合作和支持。因此，它提供了一个机会，以审查专业网络的外生变化对女性经济学家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.