A literacy-targeted approach to economic instruction draws on insights from cognitive science. It highlights that students process complex economic information by constructing and modifying schemas that represent economic material. Following this approach, we developed a set of instructional...

A literacy-targeted approach to economic instruction draws on insights from cognitive science. It highlights that students process complex economic information by constructing and modifying schemas that represent economic material. Following this approach, we developed a set of instructional...

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A large body of literature documents that school-based financial education generally improves financial knowledge, yet little is known about the effect of instruction in the broader economic domain. This paper evaluates the effect of a curriculum reform introducing mandatory economic education...

Broad ranges of studies have discussed the difference in performance between men and women in relation to their economics education. The German perspective with its particular tertiary education system and decade long history of gender equality movements, however, remain under researched. By...

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the...

Broad ranges of studies have discussed the difference in performance between men and women in relation to their economics education. The German perspective with its particular tertiary education system and decade long history of gender equality movements, however, remain under researched. By...

Unter der Leitfrage "Wie lässt sich ökonomisches Denken fördern?" haben Wissenschaftler:innen und Studierende im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung Zugänge zum ökonomischen Denken diskutiert. Der Sammelband präsentiert die Ergebnisse dieser Diskussionen und ordnet sie in die aktuellen Debatten zur...

Die Einführung des neuen Schulfachs „Wirtschaft, Berufs- und Studienorientierung" (WBS) wurde in Baden-Württemberg kontrovers diskutiert. Anhand von acht Querschnittserhebungen über einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren evaluiert die Studie die Entwicklung der ökonomischen Kompetenz, Haltungen...

Vom Geld in der eigenen Tasche bis zu globaler Gerechtigkeit und Klimaschutz interessieren sich Jugendliche lebhaft für Wirtschaft. Doch Schulen und Elternhäuser fühlen sich hier oft nicht zuständig. Dieses Buch erklärt auf das Wesentliche konzentriert und anhand anschaulicher Beispiele die...

Background: Constant integration of digital technologies in economic and social life is rapidly and significantly shaping and changing our environment and ourselves. To function in such a world, even in daily routines, it is necessary to possess certain digital competencies. Objectives: This...

This paper studies people's understanding of inflation--their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs--and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature in economics with two experimental components--a conjoint...

"Caroline Jack reveals how specifically American capitalism has been created and made to seem inevitable through the propagation of its rhetoric and values in the most ephemeral of materials: public service announcements, pamphlets, educational films, and games-what she calls collectively...

This article provides a concise narrative overview of the rapidly growing empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic correlates of financial literacy. We next cover the evidence on the effects of financial literacy on...