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Mentoring in higher education: does it enhance mentees’ research productivity?

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  • Julia Muschallik
  • Kerstin Pull

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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.

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  • Julia Muschallik & Kerstin Pull, 2016. "Mentoring in higher education: does it enhance mentees’ research productivity?," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 210-223, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:24:y:2016:i:2:p:210-223
    DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2014.997676
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