Becker, Charles M.; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Chen, Mingyu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA's program which, to the best of our...