2025 AEA CSQIEP Economics PhD Student and Early Career Economist Mentoring Conference

Conference Information

2024 Mentoring Conference Program

The third annual AEA CSQIEP Mentoring Conference for Economics PhD Students and Early Career Economists will be held July 30 - August 1, 2025 in Chicago, IL. The original intent of the conference is to support economics PhD students who are LGBTQ+ identified or who are working to support LGBTQ+ identified economics PhD students. In 2024 the conference was expanded to support early career economists as well (generally those within 10 years of PhD). The conference focuses on job market preparation, research feedback, LGBTQ+ job market concerns, tenure/promotion, and building mentoring and community networks.

This conference is sponsored by the Committee for the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession (CSQIEP) and the American Economic Association, with additional support from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation. CSQIEP’s goal is to cover travel and lodging costs for all PhD student mentees.

All interested attendees (PhD student mentees, early career mentees, and senior mentors) should complete an application, which is due April 11, 2025.

Eligibility Requirements for Mentors

The eligibility requirements for conference mentors are

1. You must have graduated with a PhD in Economics (or related fields) by Summer 2025.
2. You must attend a mandatory zoom session on being a mentor in late Spring 2025. Multiple sessions will be offered to fit your schedule.
3. You must commit to interacting with your approximately 4 to 6 assigned mentees and likely one co-mentor before and during the conference (and, as your schedule permits, after the conference as well, though this is not required). We envision mentors meeting their mentees in a group zoom format once or twice in June/July before meeting in person at the conference at the end of July.
4. You must commit to abiding by the AEA Code of Professional Conduct before, during, and after the event.

Eligibility Requirements for Students (Mentees)

1. You must be currently enrolled in or on temporary leave from a PhD program in economics or a related field at an institution in the United States, Mexico, or Canada. Related fields include:
   • economic specialties, such as agricultural economics or environmental economics.
   • public policy/administration or business PhD programs in which the program requires taking the economics PhD core theory sequence of courses.
2. You must plan to go on the job market in 2025-26 or 2026-27.
3. You must have an unpublished research paper that can be workshopped at the conference and in the 6 or so weeks before the conference. If you are on the 2025-26 job market, this paper would ideally be your JMP.
4. You must commit to reviewing carefully one co-mentee’s work and delivering constructive, written comments in advance of the conference.
5. You must commit to reviewing 2-4 other co-mentee’s work and delivering constructive oral comments at the conference.
6. You must commit to abiding by the AEA Code of Professional Conduct before, during, and after the event.