Broadening Participation in Economics: The AEA Summer Program with Inclusive Mentoring

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。该奖项资助霍华德大学作为美国经济协会暑期培训项目的东道主。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。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。AEASTP的学生将在华盛顿特区的一些联邦机构和非营利组织参加研究体验，指导人员将包括联邦储备银行理事会雇用的经济学家。获奖机构将与女性科学、公平和种族研究所(WISER)合作，为AEASTP的参与者提供全年指导。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。其结果之一是，在美国，几个重要的人口统计群体在经济学系中的代表性不足。在这个奖项的过程中，一批强大的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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This award funds Howard University as the host of 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. 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. AEASTP students will participate in research experiences at a number of federal agencies and non-profit organizations in the Washington DC area, and the instructional staff will include economists employed by the Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors. The awardee institution will partner with the Women’s Institute on Science, Equity, and Race (WISER) to provide year-around mentoring for AEASTP participants.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, a strong cohortof 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.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.