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'''Background on problems and opportunities in the economics profession'''
 
'''Background on problems and opportunities in the economics profession'''
  
*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.30.4.221 Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem] (Amanda Bayer and Cecilia Elena Rouse, ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'' 30(4), Fall 2016)
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*[https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.30.4.221 Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem]
*[https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/member-docs/final-climate-survey-results-sept-2019 AEA Professional Climate Survey: Final Report] (Sam Allgood, Lee Badgett, Amanda Bayer, Marianne Bertrand, Sandra E. Black, Nick Bloom and Lisa D. Cook, American Economic Association, September 15, 2019)
 
::[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/opinion/economics-black-women.html ‘It Was a Mistake for Me to Choose This Field’] (Lisa Cook and Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, “The New York Times", September 30, 2019)
 
::[https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=11280#page=16 (Professional) Climate Change] (Amanda Bayer, ''The Minority Report'', 2020)
 
*[https://www.newyorkfed.org/data-and-statistics/data-visualization/diversity-in-economics Who is Being Trained in Economics? The Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Economics Majors at U.S. Colleges and Universities] (Amanda Bayer, David Wilcox, and the Data Visualization team at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, December 2018)
 
  
'''Key resources'''
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*[https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/member-docs/final-climate-survey-results-sept-2019 AEA Professional Climate Survey] ⇒ summaries: [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/opinion/economics-black-women.html ‘It Was a Mistake for Me to Choose This Field’] and [https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=11280#page=16 (Professional) Climate Change]
  
*[http://www.DiversifyingEcon.org Diversifying Economic Quality] (by Amanda Bayer, American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, first published in 2011 with continuous revision)
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*[https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/code-of-conduct AEA Code of Professional Conduct] and [https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/aea-policy-harassment-discrimination AEA Policy on Harassment and Discrimination]
  
*[https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/best-practices Best Practices for Diversifying Economic Quality: A Report by the AEA Task Force on Best Practices for Professional Conduct in Economics] (Amanda Bayer, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Rohini Pande, Cecilia Elena Rouse, Anthony A. Smith, Jr., Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, and David W. Wilcox, American Economic Association, October 18, 2019)
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*[https://www.newyorkfed.org/data-and-statistics/data-visualization/diversity-in-economics Who is Being Trained in Economics? The Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Economics Majors at U.S. Colleges and Universities]
  
'''Key principles'''
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*[http://highered.ssrc.org/wp-content/uploads/MCL-Frameworks_Economics.pdf Essential Concepts and Competencies in Economics]
  
*Measuring College Learning in Economics (Amanda Bayer and Sam Allgood, in Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century, edited by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, Amanda Cook. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2016)
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'''Key resources to consult and bookmark '''
::Learning Outcomes for Economists with Sam Allgood, American Economic Review 107(5): 660-64, May 2017)
 
  
*Diagnosing the Learning Environment for Diverse Students in Introductory Economics: An Analysis of Relevance, Belonging, and Growth Mindsets (Amanda Bayer, Syon Bhanot, Erin Bronchetti, and Stephen A. O'Connell, AEA Papers and Proceedings 110, 2020)
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*[http://www.DiversifyingEcon.org Diversifying Economic Quality]
  
*Does Simple Information Provision Lead to More Diverse Classrooms? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Undergraduate Economics (Amanda Bayer, Syon Bhanot and Fernando Lozano, AEA Papers and Proceedings 109, 2019)
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*[https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/best-practices Best Practices for Economists: Building a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Productive Profession]
  
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'''Key principles to keep in mind'''
  
Some steps towards making classes more effective and inclusive
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*Teach to build '''R''' '''B''' and '''G''' >> See the [[media:Presentation slides.pdf|presentation slides]] for specific steps
 
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*[[Caring goes a long way]]
    Introduce your students to Bloom's Taxonomy.
 
    Decide what you want your students to take away from your course, and use backward-design to accomplish your goals[1].
 
    Employ active learning techniques.
 
    Foster a growth mindset in your students.
 
    Modify and limit the effects of implicit biases.
 
    Understand stereotype threat and reduce it with wise feedback and values affirmation.
 
    Improve classroom climate, including adding wait time after asking a question.
 
    Offer meaningful content.
 
 
 
Presentation Slides
 
 
 
    Diversity in the Economics Profession: Where We Stand and Where We’re Going (March 17 presentation)
 
    Diversifying Economic Quality: Using Evidence to Create More Inclusive Economics Departments (March 18 presentation)
 
    Creating a More Inclusive Classroom Environment (March 17 workshop)
 

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