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ArticleResearch policy2025

The effect of trainee career intentions on mentor's interest in the trainee: Experimental evidence from academia.

Inna Smirnova, Austin Shannon, Misha Teplitskiy

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3 authors.

Inna SmirnovaUniversity of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America.
Austin ShannonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America.
Misha TeplitskiyUniversity of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America.

Funding

Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR)UM1TR004404 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Julie C Lumeng · 2023 to 2026
$39.8M
NCATS NIH HHS UM1 TR004404
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many industries trainees often seek careers different from their mentors. For example, many PhD students seek non-academic careers. Anecdotally, mentors invest less in different-career trainees, but causal evidence is lacking. To fill this gap, we conducted an audit experiment in academia, where a fictitious prospective PhD student emailed immunology and microbiology principal investigators (PIs) about mentorship. The student's career intention was randomly described as "applied research in industry" (

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Academic labor marketAudit experimentMentor-trainee career mismatchesSelection of trainees

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PMID40535614
PMCPMC12176394

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