This article, coauthored with Online Agricultural and Resource Economics (OARES) seminar co-founder and co-organizer Jeff Bloem, is now out in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Here is the abstract:
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched the Online Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar (OARES) in an ostensible effort to maintain a semblance of normalcy in agricultural and applied economics. Our goal with the OARES was to break down the privilege barrier in two ways: by (i) featuring research mainly by junior, female, or minority scholars, and (ii) bringing frontier research to those who may not have had access to a regular seminar series prior to the pandemic. We thus discuss the contribution of the OARES to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in agricultural and applied economics.
You can find this article here (gated, but email me for a pre-print if you would like to read it but do not have access). This article is part of a two-article symposium, with the other article being about how Cornell’s Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) program helped build research capacity among African scholars.