Workshop in Macroeconomic Research at Liberal Arts Colleges (Summers 2007-2011)

这项提议寻求支持在五年内为美国文科学院的宏观经济学家举办的一系列年度讲习班。拟议中的研讨会的目的是通过提供一个年度论坛，让参与者可以介绍、讨论和接收对他们的研究的反馈，并与类似环境中的其他宏观经济学家形成研究合作，从而提高这些机构的宏观经济学家的研究效率。这些研讨会满足了目前现有的研讨会、会议或其他传统合作方式无法满足的需求。文科院校的宏观经济学家经常被孤立在系内和系外。在他们的部门内，每个宏观经济学家平均只有一个从事宏观经济研究的同事。在部门之外，他们还经常因为这些机构的地理位置而与世隔绝，这使得这些宏观经济学家很难参加往往位于城市地区的大型研究型大学或研究机构的研讨会。缺乏合作和网络的机会从文科宏观经济学家参加全国性会议甚至更专门的宏观经济学会议的低参与率中可见一斑。与其他类型机构的宏观经济学家以及文科大学其他领域的经济学家相比，这些参与率都较低。拟议会议的广泛影响：成功实施了两个试点讲习班，并初步证明它们之间的合作将支持这一提议将成功实现其目标的说法。该提案的学术价值在于促进了在类似研究环境中工作的教职员工之间的知识共享，但目前几乎没有这样做的机会。这些研讨会的更广泛影响将是文理学院的宏观经济学家提高研究生产率。这将使经济学专业普遍受益，因为这些经济学家增加了他们对当前文献的贡献。此外，由这些人教授的本科生也将受益，特别是那些将进入经济学博士课程的人。文科院校的教师在培养成功的经济学博士生方面发挥了重要作用，这些教师-学者的研究效率与他们的学生获得经济学博士学位的可能性增加有关。最后，这项提议可能会让女性经济学家不成比例地受益，因为文科院校的女性教员比例高于其他类型的机构。

This proposal seeks support for a series of annual workshops implemented over a five year period for macroeconomists at liberal arts colleges in the United States. The objective of the proposed workshops is to increase the research productivity of macroeconomists at these institutions by providing an annual forum at which the participants can present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research as well as form research collaborations with other macroeconomists in similar environments.These workshops meet a need that is not currently filled by existing workshops, conferences or other traditional means of collaboration. Macroeconomists at liberal arts colleges are often isolated both within and outside of their departments. Within their departments, each macroeconomist has only one other colleague, on average, with macroeconomic research interests. Outside of their departments, they are also often isolated due to the geographic locations of many of these institutions, making it difficult for these macroeconomists to attend seminars at larger research universities or research institutes that tend to be located in urban areas.The lack of opportunity for collaboration and networking is evidenced in the low participation rates of liberal arts macroeconomists in national conferences and even more specialized conferences focused on macroeconomics. These participation rates are low relative to both macroeconomists at other types of institutions as well as economists in other fields at liberal arts colleges.Broader Impact of Proposed Conference: Successful implementation of two pilot workshops and preliminary evidence of collaborations that have already arisen from them provide support for the claim that this proposal will be successful in achieving its objective. The intellectual merit of the proposal lies in the facilitation of knowledge sharing amongst faculty who work in similar research environments, but currently have little opportunity to do so. The broader impact of the workshops will be increased research productivity by macroeconomists at liberal arts colleges. This will benefit the economics profession generally, as these economists increase their contributions to the current literature. Furthermore, the undergraduate students who are taught by these individuals will also benefit, particularly those who will enter economics Ph.D. programs themselves. Faculty at liberal arts colleges play an important role in generating successful economics Ph.D. students and the research productivity of these teacher-scholars has been linked to an increased likelihood of their students earning an economics Ph.D. Finally, the proposal may disproportionately benefit female economists because the percentage of female faculty is higher at liberal arts institutions than at other types of institutions.