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Alfermann, Dorothee; Holl, Christopher; Reimann, Swantje – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Evidence in the literature indicates that doctoral candidates may experience increased levels of stress and worry about successfully completing their doctorate degrees. As a result, a significant number of doctoral candidates drop out. In our study with 424 doctoral students in computer science (113 women, 311 men), we ask about the frequency of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Dropout Characteristics, Computer Science Education
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Muschallik, Julia; Pull, Kerstin – Education Economics, 2016
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…
Descriptors: Mentors, Higher Education, Productivity, Economics Education