This article offers a practical way for economic educators to integrate marketing into economics principles courses by connecting economic principles and data to advertisements used during the "Great Recession." While most business students are required to take economic principles courses, few...

An important area of consumer choice is time allocation and its role in dictating behavior. For the typical student worker, the time allocation decision involves three primary activities: paid employment, academic pursuits, and leisure pursuits. Exogenous factors such as the wage rate, price of...

The purpose of this paper is to describe two different pedagogical experiments employed in a course on global capitalism. First, the course incorporated interdisciplinary team teaching (an economist and a political scientist). Second, the course created a team project, which allowed the students...

This paper discusses dynamic ticket pricing by Major League Baseball and how it applies to the measurement or transaction explanation of pricing. Key reductions in the cost of measuring margins that vary in value, such as the win/loss record of the opposing team, are identified, and these...

By evaluating a new data set on colleges and universities across six states, this paper characterizes the state of the economics major and identifies institutional characteristics that may influence key features of an economics major. Although majors are similar in terms of credit hour...

Admissions officials are asked to make decisions about individual students based upon the information that can be known prior to enrollment. In the present study we show that first-term success of previous students from a given high school can be a significant predictor of first-term success of...

Appropriate assessment is of major importance for universities today. Many faculty perceive assessment as already occurring through grade assignment. This paper investigates grades versus knowledge of learning objectives as forms of assessment. By analyzing the relationship between examination...

The graphical analysis of the income and substitution effects is an important part of consumer theory that is commonly taught at the level of intermediate microeconomics. Few textbooks, however, devote much discussion of these effects for perfect substitutes. The purpose of this paper is to fill...

Initially, economic development increases resistance because migration of people to urban areas in developing countries increases incomes, crowding and the use of antibiotics. Also, developing countries often don't require prescriptions or distribute high quality antibiotics. In developed...

We describe the use of a serious game in intermediate macroeconomics: Mankiw’s Presidential Game. Students in the classroom are assigned different roles as monetary and fiscal policy makers, while the online game is used to estimate the impact of their decisions. After the game, the instructor...