Code for: How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx and Native American People in the Economics Profession

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Amanda Bayer, Swartmore College; Gary Hoover, University of Oklahoma; Ebonya Washington, Yale University

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Project Citation:

Bayer, Amanda, Hoover, Gary, and Washington, Ebonya. Code for: How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx and Native American People in the Economics Profession. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-07-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117562V1

Project Description

Summary: Recently in economics there has been discussion of how to increase diversity in the profession and how to improve the work life of diverse peoples. We conducted surveys and interviews with Black, Latinx and Native American people, groups long underrepresented in the economics profession. Participants, at various stages along the economics career trajectory or on the trajectory no longer, used their lived experience to reflect on what helps and hurts underrepresented minorities in economics. We heard a few consistent themes, bias, hostile climate, and the lack of information and good mentoring among them. Respondents’ insights and experience point toward action steps that you can take today to increase the presence and improve the work life of unrepresented minorities in the economics profession.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: race; economics field

JEL Classification:
A10 General Economics: General
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

Time Period(s): 7/1/2019 – 9/30/2019

Collection Date(s): 7/1/2019 – 9/30/2019

Universe: Black, Latinx and Native American economists

Data Type(s): audio: sound data; survey data; text

Methodology

Response Rate:

for the survey unknown as we asked recipients of our survey invitation to send the invitation on.

for the long form interviews, we tried to interview 55 people. We succeeded in interviewing 42.

Sampling: We sent out our call for survey invitations through list serves and social media of The Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, the American Society of Hispanic Economists and the National Economic Association. Of course, these interest groups reach graduate students and practicing economists. Because we also wanted to reach those who at one time had an interest in economics but decided against it, we also targeted by e-mail former AEA Summer program attendants and program applicants who did not attend. (These groups were targeted for a survey designed to measure the impact of the AEA Summer Program (Becker et. al 2016))

Data Source: Surveys and interviews

Collection Mode(s): face-to-face interview; web-based survey

Unit(s) of Observation: an individual

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