Collaborative Research: Summer Training Program to Broaden Participation in Graduate Education in Economics

该奖项用于资助密歇根州立大学和西密歇根大学举办美国经济协会暑期培训项目。AEASTP的目标是帮助有才华的本科生提高他们的技术技能，并进行经济学研究，为博士水平的学习做准备。该计划向所有符合条件的学生开放，不分种族、民族或性别。组织者特别努力从经济学专业中代表性不足的群体中招收学生。该项目将研究经验与密集的课程和住宿经历中的职业指导结合在一起。该项目的讲师既包括顶尖的经济学家，也包括一批夏季研究员，他们是经济学研究生，充当学生的导师。研究员接受包容性教学方法的培训，并受益于与教师讲师的接触，教师作为研究导师与学生和研究员一起工作。该奖项还将资助一个项目评估工作，包括持续的努力和长期的成果。成功的经济学博士学习之路可能是坎坷的，特别是对于来自少数群体服务机构和研究重点不强的机构的学生。障碍包括：本科经济学课程往往面向最受欢迎的学生职业目标-商业-而不是博士学习，对申请过程不熟悉，以及经济限制。一个后果是，在美国，几个重要的人口群体在经济学方面的代表性不足。在这个奖项的过程中，数百名学生将能够成功地晋升为经济学和相关社会科学的成熟研究人员。他们的经历将有助于他们以后的职业生涯，使他们能够利用强大的专业网络，帮助他们在自己的教学和研究工作中培养一个更具包容性的环境。通过扩大对经济学专业的参与，该项目将对塑造经济学和相关领域的专业研究议程产生积极和持久的影响，使美国受益。

This award funds efforts by Michigan State University and Western Michigan University in hosting the American Economic Association Summer Training Program. The goal of the AEASTP is to help talented undergraduate students advance their technical skills and conduct research in economics in preparation for studies at the doctoral level. The program is open to all qualified students regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender. Organizers make special efforts to recruit students from groups under-represented in the economics profession. The program combines research experience with intensive coursework and career mentoring in a residential experience. Instructors in the program include both leading economists and a cohort of Summer Fellows, graduate students in economics who serve as mentors for the students. Fellows get training in inclusive teaching methods and benefit from access to the faculty instructors, who work with both students and fellows as research mentors. The award will also fund a program evaluation effort that includes both ongoing efforts and long term outcomes.The road to successful Ph.D. study in economics can be a rocky one, especially for students coming from minority-serving institutions and institutions that do not have a strong research focus. Obstacles include undergraduate economics curricula that are often oriented towards the most popular student career goal - business - than Ph.D. study, a lack of familiarity with the application process, and financial limitations. One consequence is that several important demographic groups are under-represented on economics faculties in the U.S.. Over the course of this award, hundreds of students will be able to successfully advance to become mature researchers in economics and related social sciences. Their experiences will be instrumental in their later careers in allowing them to use a strong professional network to help them foster a more inclusive environment in their own teaching and research efforts. By broadening participation in the economics profession, the program will have a positive and lasting impact on shaping professional research agendas in economics and related fields to the benefit of the United States.