AEASP
From Diversifying Economic Quality: A Wiki for Instructors and Departments
Resources for AEASP faculty, fellows, and staff
Background on problems and opportunities in the economics profession
- Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem (Bayer and Rouse, Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(4), Fall 2016)
- AEA Professional Climate Survey: Final Report (Allgood, Badgett, Bayer, Bertrand, Black, Bloom and Cook, American Economic Association, September 15, 2019)
- ‘It Was a Mistake for Me to Choose This Field’ (Cook and Opoku-Agyeman, “The New York Times", September 30, 2019)
- (Professional) Climate Change (Bayer, The Minority Report, 2020)
- Who is Being Trained in Economics? The Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Economics Majors at U.S. Colleges and Universities (Bayer, Wilcox, and the FRBNY Data Visualization team, December 2018)
Key resources
- Diversifying Economic Quality (Bayer, American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, first published in 2011 with continuous revision)
- Best Practices for Diversifying Economic Quality: A Report by the AEA Task Force on Best Practices for Professional Conduct in Economics (Bayer, Kalemli-Özcan, Pande, Rouse, Smith, Suárez Serrato, and Wilcox, American Economic Association, October 18, 2019)
Key principles
- Measuring College Learning in Economics (Bayer and Allgood, in Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century, edited by Arum, Roksa, and Cook. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2016)
- Learning Outcomes for Economists (Bayer and 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)
- 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)
Some steps towards making classes more effective and inclusive
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)