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

该提案寻求支持在五年内为美国文科学院的宏观经济学家举办一系列年度讲习班。拟议讲习班的目标是通过提供一个年度论坛，使参与者能够介绍、讨论和获得关于其研究的反馈，并与类似环境中的其他宏观经济学家进行研究合作，从而提高这些机构的宏观经济学家的研究生产力，这些讲习班满足了现有讲习班、会议或其他传统合作方式目前无法满足的需求。文理学院的宏观经济学家在系内外都是孤立的。在他们的部门里，平均每个宏观经济学家只有一个同事对宏观经济学有研究兴趣。在他们的部门之外，由于许多这些机构的地理位置，他们也往往是孤立的，这使得这些宏观经济学家很难参加大型研究型大学或研究机构的研讨会，这些大学或研究机构往往位于城市地区。缺乏合作和联网的机会，这体现在文科宏观经济学家参加全国性会议的比例很低，甚至更专业。会议聚焦宏观经济。这些参与率是低相对于其他类型的机构，以及在其他领域的经济学家在文科colleges.Broader影响拟议会议：成功实施两个试点研讨会和合作的初步证据，已经从他们提供支持的索赔，这一建议将成功地实现其目标。该建议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。讲习班的更广泛影响将是提高文科学院宏观经济学家的研究生产力。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学位的学生。节目本身。文理学院的教师在培养成功的经济学博士学位方面发挥着重要作用。这些教师学者的研究生产力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使女经济学家受益，因为文科院校的女教员比例高于其他类型的院校。

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.