Establishing A Computer Laboratory for Student/Faculty Economics Research

在国家科学基金会重大研究仪器奖的支持下，莫尔豪斯学院的经济学教授将开发一个研究计算机实验室，以提高经济学和其他相关学科的研究活动的质量和范围。研究计算机实验室将提高经济学系的能力，利用精心设计的计量经济模型，利用国内和国际数据集模拟和调查实质性的经济和社会问题。该系还将依靠这种扩大的仪器来加强学生对特定课程的研究。教师和学生将在城市经济学、国际经济学、宏观经济学、公共财政、经济发展、环境与卫生经济学、劳动经济学等社会经济研究领域开展计量经济学项目。显著提高学生和教师研究中计算机应用的数量是该系战略计划的核心，该计划旨在加强莫尔豪斯学院的经济学和商业教育，并增加莫尔豪斯学院毕业生在经济学、公共政策和国际事务方面接受研究生培训的人数。因此，除了加强经济学课程外，这一努力将显著扩大基于计算机的学生研究的数量，这对增加申请研究生课程的本科生数量至关重要。该实验室也将提供给政治科学系布里斯班研究所的学生和教师，他们将利用该设施进行投票和政治行为研究。此外，计算机研究实验室将帮助经济和商业学系解决整个经济和商业课程中的重要社会问题。在该部门内，市场研究课程将利用计量经济学研究实验室，管理学院和从事行为和社会研究的学生也将利用计量经济学研究实验室。因此，该实验室将成为经济研究计划、相关部门商业研究和政治行为研究工作的成长和发展的重要工具。核磁共振基金将资助一项新的努力，旨在满足学生、经济学院和其他相关学院的需求和兴趣，以扩大学院的政策研究能力。该部门正在提出一项雄心勃勃且具有前瞻性的计划，在未来三年内开始扩展他们的基础设施，利用密歇根大学校际政治和社会研究联盟的数据下载，扩大严肃的教师/学生研究的氛围，并用更有趣，更重要和更有用的东西来改进传统的讲座学习方法，以促进认知发展。这个项目很重要，原因有很多。这将增加莫尔豪斯学院教师和学生参与政策研究、演讲和项目的机会。它将通过改进以计算机为基础的学生项目和论文，增加经济学和商业相关课程在涵盖国内和国际问题方面的深度和相关性。随着时间的推移，预计这些活动将增加申请经济学和公共政策博士课程的学生人数，从而有助于扩大训练有素的非裔美国经济学家和政策分析师的数量。

With support from a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation award, the economics faculty at Morehouse College will develop a research computer laboratory to improve the quality and scope of research activities in economics and other related disciplines. The research computer lab will enhance the economics department's capacity to model and investigate substantive economic and social issues using national and international data sets employing well-designed econometric models. The department also will rely on this broadened instrumentation to augment student research within specific courses. Faculty and student researchers will carry out econometrics projects in urban economics, international economics, macroeconomics, public finance, economic development, environmental and health economics, labor economics and other socioeconomic research. The effort to significantly improve the number of computer applications for both student and faculty research is central to the department's strategic plan to strengthen economics and business education at Morehouse College, and to increase the number of Morehouse graduates pursuing graduate training in economics, public policy, and international affairs. Thus, in addition to strengthening the economics curriculum, this effort will significantly expand the amount of computer-based student research vital to increasing the pool of undergraduates applying to graduate programs. The lab also will be available to students and faculty in the political science department's Brisbane Institute, which will utilize the facility to conduct voting and political behavior research. In addition, the computer research lab will help the Division of Economics and Business address important social issues across the entire economics and business curriculum. Within the division, the marketing research course will utilize the econometrics research lab, as will the management faculty and students who do behavioral and social research. This lab, therefore, will be an important tool for the growth and development of the economic research program, related divisional business research, and political behavior research efforts. The MRI funding will underwrite a new effort aimed at addressing the needs and interests of students, the economics faculty, and other related faculty to expand the college's policy research capacity. The department is proposing an ambitious and forward looking program to begin an expansion of their infrastructure over three years to take advantage of data downloads from the University of Michigan Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research, to expand the climate of serious faculty/student research, and to improve the traditional lecture learning approach with something more interesting, important and useful for cognitive development. The project is important for many reasons. It will increase the opportunities for Morehouse College faculty and students to engage in policy research, presentations, and programs. It will increase the depth and relevance of economics and business-related courses in their coverage of national and international issues through improved computer-based student projects and papers. Over time, it is expected that these activities will increase the number of students applying to Ph.D. programs in economics and public policy, thereby helping to expand the pool of highly trained African American economists and policy analysts.