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    Best Practices For Economists

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    The document outlines best practices for economists to build a more diverse, inclusive, and productive profession. It provides suggestions in five areas: conducting research, serving as colleagues, working with students, leading departments and workplaces, and implementing a structured and fair recruiting process to increase diversity. The goal is to attract the best people and ideas and establish a positive, productive culture.

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    The document outlines best practices for economists to build a more diverse, inclusive, and productive profession. It provides suggestions in five areas: conducting research, serving as colleagues, working with students, leading departments and workplaces, and implementing a structured and fair recruiting process to increase diversity. The goal is to attract the best people and ideas and establish a positive, productive culture.

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    BEST PRACTICES FOR

    ECONOMISTS:
    AEA BEST PRACTICES FOR ECONOMISTS:
    BUILDING A MORE DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE, AND PRODUCTIVE PROFESSION
    Visit www.aeaweb.org/resources/bestpractices to find practical suggestions
    for implementation and supporting research and resources.

    CONDUCTING SERVING AS
    RESEARCH COLLEAGUES

    1. Organize conferences, seminars, and 1. Discuss and enforce a code of conduct.


    visitor programs that are inclusive.  Establishing rules for unbiased conduct
    Each conference, panel, seminar series, or facilitates important conversations, sets clear
    other forum should feature a diverse group of expectations, and creates a more productive
    economists. and inclusive environment. 

    2. Ensure that the conferences and seminar 2. Be an effective bystander. 


    discussions you host are constructive. Signaling a willingness to listen and to speak up
    Setting and enforcing rules of responsible be- when you observe inappropriate behavior helps
    havior by attendees at conference and seminar set norms for fair conduct.
    presentations can increase the quality of the
    intellectual exchange.  3. Be a good mentor.
    Improving your mentoring skills encourages
    3. Provide equitable access to journals.   those around you to do the same. A more sup-
    Ensuring that boards of editors at journals portive environment attracts better colleagues
    are diverse, that high standards of ethical and and creates productive work relationships. 
    equitable behavior are set, and that referees
    adhere to them may help reduce biases in the 4. Create room for your colleagues’
    editorial process.  work-life choices. 
    Supporting one another’s need for fulfilling pro-
    4. Read and cite diversely; think inclusively. fessional and personal lives improves mental
    Citing a diverse set of authors on syllabi and health and productivity.
    bibliographies and finding value in alternative
    research approaches can improve your research 5. Meet your colleagues where they are.
    and the discipline. Valuing differences helps individuals, and the
    profession, thrive. There is no set profile of
    5. Share research opportunities broadly.  what an economist should look like, and there
    Seeking diversity when identifying research is no rulebook for what constitutes economics
    assistants and potential collaborators can help research.
    counter existing biases.
    WORKING LEADING DEPARTMENTS
    WITH STUDENTS AND WORKPLACES

    1. Use outreach to counter stereotypes about 1. Implement a structured and fair recruiting
    economics and close other information gaps. process.
    When faculty proactively offer information about Adopting best practices in recruiting can increase
    the breadth of the field of economics, more the diversity of candidate pools and decrease the
    students from underrepresented groups study influence of human biases on hiring decisions. 
    economics. Simple changes can help students
    who are less familiar with academia.  2. Conduct promotion, tenure, and annual perfor-
    mance reviews in a transparent and equitable
    2. Offer course content that is relevant manner. 
    for diverse students.  Being transparent about the criteria that will
    Students come to our classes with a wide range determine evaluation outcomes, and thinking
    of life experiences and interests, but standard carefully about what those criteria should be, can
    economics curricula often fall short of engaging reduce the biases that taint evaluation processes.
    diverse students.
    3. Implement an inclusive process for admitting
    3. Use effective and inclusive classroom and developing graduate students. 
    techniques. Departments can structure their admissions and
    Active learning and other evidence-based ped- advising processes to identify, recruit, and devel-
    agogical approaches are effective, inclusive, and op a much wider range of talent.
    straightforward to implement. These techniques
    have especially large benefits for members of 4. Create an inclusive, constructive culture
    underrepresented groups.  and deal firmly with instances of exclusion,
    harassment, discrimination, and disrespectful
    4. Build a sense of belonging for all students.  treatment. 
    The extreme demographic imbalances in Clear and consistent communication about
    economics departments present an unhealthy expectations for behavior and firm action when
    environment and an unlevel playing field. When those expectations are not met can help establish
    students from underrepresented groups receive a positive, productive, and inclusive culture.
    explicit and implicit messages that they belong
    in the field, their performance and persistence 5. Structure your meetings and workplaces to be
    improve.  inclusive. 
    Inclusive procedures and practices can increase
    5. Help your students understand and enjoy productivity, avoid marginalizing certain voices,
    the learning process.  and ensure all members of the community have
    When students and faculty understand that abili- access to the resources and opportunities they
    ties are developed through education, effort, and need to thrive.
    experience, academic performance improves,
    satisfaction increases, and race and gender gaps
    narrow.

    “ When economics is tested by future challenges, I hope that


    our profession will be able to say that we have done all we

    
    could to attract the best people and the best ideas.
    ”
    —Janet Yellen
    BEST PRACTICES FOR
    ECONOMISTS:
    BUILDING A MORE DIVERSE,
    INCLUSIVE, AND PRODUCTIVE PROFESSION
    Developed by the
    AEA Task Force on Best Practices for
    Professional Conduct in Economics

    www.aeaweb.org/resources/bestpractices

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