Women Helping Women? Role Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Students in Economics
利用1970年代中期至1990年代初的调查数据，检验了增加女性教师或由女性导师指导论文是否有助于经济学女博士生取得更好的学业成果，发现对首次就业机构特征无显著影响，但对缩短毕业时间和提高完成率有一定益处。
One potential method to increase the success of female graduate students in economics may be to encourage mentoring relationships between these students and female faculty members.Increased hiring of female faculty is viewed as one way to promote such mentoring relationships, perhaps because of role-model effects.A more direct method of promoting such relationships may be for female graduate students to have female faculty serve as dissertation chairs.The evidence in this paper addresses the question of whether either of these strategies results in more successful outcomes for female graduate students.The evidence is based on survey information on female graduate students and faculties of Ph.D.-producing economics departments, covering the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.With respect to characteristics of the institutions at which students are first placed when leaving graduate school, the empirical evidence provides no support for the hypothesis that outcomes for female graduate students are improved by adding female faculty members, or by having a female dissertation chair.However, with respect to time to complete graduate school, and the completion rate, there is some limited evidence of beneficial effects of female faculty members.