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2024 AAEA Early Career Professionals Workshop

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What:
 		 AAEA Early Career Professionals Workshop:
Supporting Scholars to Thrive in Applied Economics
Where: University of California, Davis campus
When: December 13-15, 2024
Who:

 		 Open to pre-tenure or equivalent career stage applied economists with a PhD currently working in US or Canadian universities or organizations who have seven or fewer year of work experience post-PhD (not including time for parental leave, or similar)
Why:
 		 The goal of this workshop is to help early career AAEA members thrive—building fulfilling careers as applied economists and satisfying lives as whole humans

The specific objectives of this workshop are to:

  1. Ensure early career professional applied economists (including those from historically excluded groups) feel welcome in the profession,
  2. Provide a supportive and encouraging professional environment that makes early career professional applied economists want to stay in the profession,
  3. Help early career professional applied economists build skills to engage in rigorous and impactful applied economics scholarship, and
  4. Offer networking and mentorship opportunities with both established economists and peers to help early career professional applied economists develop innovative and impactful scholarly collaborations.

Agenda
(subject to change with speaker + applicant feedback)
Day 1 - Welcome
Time Event
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Welcome dinner (Theme: Welcome to the profession, you are wanted)
Day 2 - Hidden Curriculum
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast

  • Becoming a scholar - Why are you here? What are your goals?
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Morning session 1

  • Being an ethical applied economist
  • Teaching, advising, and mentoring as scholarship
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM Coffee + Bio Break
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning session 2

  • Extension, outreach, and policy communication
  • Building the profession you want to see through service
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch with new friends (Go for a walk outside! Eat in town or at the student center!)
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Afternoon session

  • Generating ideas and scholarly projects
  • Funding and carrying out scholarship
  • Publishing and disseminating scholarship
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Happy hour
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Dinner (Theme: Applied Economics through time)
Day 3 - Special topics + planning what’s next
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Morning session 1

  • Round table discussions (2 rounds with switching) Possible topics: AI in our work, political turmoil in states + universities, caregiving + work, visas + living/working outside your home country, mental health, locating ourselves in the university and beyond, advancing DEI in our work, financial planning in your early career
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee + Bio Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Morning session 2

  • Mentor mapping activity with NCFDD map tool
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch + wrap up
   

Confirmed Speakers

  • Tim Beatty (University of California, Davis)
  • Vincenzina Caputo (Michigan State University)
  • Madhu Khanna (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Kristin Kiesel (University of California, Davis)
  • Jaclyn Kropp (University of Florida)
  • Saweda Liverpool-Tasie (Michigan State University)
  • Valerie Mueller (Arizona State University)
  • Rudy Nayga (Texas A&M University)
  • Cynthia Nickerson (USDA Office of the Chief Economist)
  • Zoë Plakias (Western Washington University)
  • Rich Sexton (University of California, Davis)
  • Norbert Wilson (Duke University)
  • Wendong Zhang (Cornell University)
  • David Zilberman (University of California, Berkeley)