REU Site: Tulane Research Experience for Undergraduates in Applied Microeconomics and Program Evaluation (TREU-AMPE)

智力优势。杜兰大学应用微观经济学本科生研究经验与项目评估（TREU-AMPE）确定来自路易斯安那州东南部大学的本科生主修经济学，对应用微观经济学和项目评估感兴趣，并提供研究机会，旨在通过他们目前的专业支持他们，鼓励他们参加研究生院，并最终，应用微观经济学和项目评估的研究生涯。TREU-AMPE不仅提供课程研究机会，还提供研究职业所需的长期支持。这种支持对于妇女和代表性不足的少数民族等学生群体特别重要，这些学生群体在研究生一级的这些学科中一直并继续代表性不足。TREU-AMPE是杜兰大学、新奥尔良大学、泽维尔大学、洛约拉大学、迪拉德大学和新奥尔良南方大学经济学专业的一项全年密集课程。来自这些学校的有前途的学生与杜兰经济系的一名教员相匹配。学生选择一个独立的项目或合作顾问的现有项目。项目持续六个月到两年，并产生由学生、教师顾问或两者共同撰写的高级论文和潜在出版物。更广泛的影响。TREU-AMPE的目标是让一群才华横溢的本科生参与对影响新奥尔良和墨西哥湾沿岸地区的公共政策的经济分析，并对所有地区产生更广泛的影响。通过参与对当地公共政策影响的科学评估，该计划培养了他们对经济学和计划评估的兴趣，并建立了更广泛的研究技能，以支持他们的研究生学习。TREU-AMPE计划有许多潜在的好处。首先，它为一群经过挑选的本科生提供了一个不同寻常的密集研究项目。第二，它涉及到在经济学专业中代表性不足的学生群体。通过将研究项目集中在自己城市和地区的经济分析上，PI团队希望吸引这些学生进入这一领域的研究生涯。第三，本研究探讨了具有全球相关性的关键经济问题。例如，新奥尔良目前是一个特殊的实验室，可以回答有关当地学校治理，医疗保健，城市群和环境政策的经济问题;这使得REU网站在一个非常特殊的时期成为一个独特的项目。

Intellectual Merit. The Tulane Research Experience for Undergraduates in Applied Microeconomics and Program Evaluation (TREU-AMPE) identifies undergraduate students from Southeast Louisiana universities majoring in Economics with an interest in applied microeconomics and program evaluation, and provides research opportunities designed to support them through their current major, encourage them to attend graduate school and, eventually, a research career in applied microeconomics and program evaluation. The TREU-AMPE provides not only a curricular research opportunity but also the long-term support necessary for a career in research. This support is particularly important for student groups such as women and underrepresented minorities that have been, and continue to be, underrepresented in these disciplines at the graduate level. The TREU-AMPE is an intensive year-round program for economics majors from Tulane University, the University of New Orleans, Xavier University, Loyola University, Dillard University, and Southern University at New Orleans. Promising students from these schools are matched with a faculty member of the Tulane Economics department. Students choose an independent project or collaborate on an existing project of an advisor. Projects last between six months and two years and result in senior theses and potentially publications authored by the student, faculty adviser, or both. Broader Impacts. The objective of the TREU-AMPE is to engage a diverse set of talented undergraduates in the economic analysis of public policies that affect the New Orleans and Gulf Coast areas and have broader implications for all regions. By participating in the scientific evaluation of the effects of local public policies, the program fosters their interest in economics and program evaluation and build broader research skills to support their graduate studies. The TREU-AMPE program has a number of potential benefits. First, it provides an unusually intensive research program for a select group of undergraduates. Second, it involves student groups that are underrepresented in the economics profession. By focusing the research program on the economic analysis of their own city and region, the PI-Team hopes to draw these students into research careers in this field. Third, this research examines critical economic questions that have global relevance. For example, New Orleans is currently an exceptional laboratory to answer questions about the economics of local school governance, healthcare, urban agglomeration, and environmental policy; this makes the REU Site a unique project at a very special period of time.