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

文理学院宏观经济研究研讨会（2007-2011 年夏季）

• 批准号: 0647278
• 负责人: Ann Owen
• 金额: $ 5.37万
• 依托单位: Hamilton College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0647278&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Macroeconomic; Research; Liberal; Arts

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.

本提案寻求支持在美国文理学院为宏观经济学家举办为期五年的一系列年度研讨会。提议的研讨会的目标是通过提供一个年度论坛来提高这些机构宏观经济学家的研究效率，参与者可以在论坛上展示、讨论和接收他们的研究反馈，并与类似环境中的其他宏观经济学家形成研究合作。这些讲习班满足了现有讲习班、会议或其他传统协作方式目前无法满足的需求。文理学院的宏观经济学家往往在院系内外都被孤立。在他们的部门内，每个宏观经济学家平均只有一个对宏观经济研究感兴趣的同事。在他们的院系之外，由于许多这些机构的地理位置，他们也经常被孤立，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。文科宏观经济学家在全国性会议，甚至更专业的宏观经济学会议上的参与率很低，这证明了合作和网络机会的缺乏。这些参与率相对于其他类型机构的宏观经济学家和文理学院其他领域的经济学家来说都很低。拟议会议的更广泛影响：两个试点讲习班的成功实施以及已经产生的合作的初步证据为该提案将成功实现其目标的说法提供了支持。该提案的智力价值在于促进在类似研究环境中工作的教师之间的知识共享，但目前很少有机会这样做。这些研讨会的更广泛影响将是提高文理学院宏观经济学家的研究效率。这将有利于经济学专业，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，特别是那些自己将攻读经济学博士学位的学生。文理学院的教师在培养成功的经济学博士学生方面发挥着重要作用，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，该提案可能会不成比例地惠及女性经济学家，因为文理学院的女性教师比例高于其他类型的机构。