The Effect of High- Performing Mentors on Junior Officer Promotion in the US Army

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lyle, David S.; Smith, John Z.
• 署名单位: United States Military Academy; United States Department of Defense; United States Army
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/673372
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 229-258
• 关键词: AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION; west point; peer; Heterogeneity; incentives; earnings

摘要

Military assignment mechanisms provide a unique opportunity to estimate the impact of high-performing mentors on job advancement of their subordinates. Combining US Army administrative data with officer evaluation reports, we find that high-performing mentors positively affect early junior officer promotion and that early promotion probabilities rise as the duration of the high-quality mentorship increases. These effects are largest for high-ability proteegees. Junior officers who were exposed to multiple high-performing mentors did not experience an additional increase in promotion rates.