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Does learning economics make you less susceptible to the sunk cost fallacy?
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Mateer, G. Dirk - 2025
The sunk cost fallacy is typically covered in introductory economics courses. It is among the most important biases that influence decision making. Ronayne et al. (2021a,b) find evidence of behavior consistent with the sunk cost effect and utilize eight questions that measure individuals'...
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Using engaging activities to enhance student mental wellness in introductory economics classes
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Mateer, G. Dirk - 2025
Many college students experience symptoms of mental health challenges, with depression and anxiety being among the most common. These problems negatively affect academic performance (Brännlund et al. 2017) and overall health (Yang et al. 2024). In the 2021 Healthy Minds Study, 41% of the...
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Seeing It in a new light : do cross-disciplinary comparisons make learning economic and financial concepts click?
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Maisondieu Laforge, … - 2025
Analogies can simplify complex new material by relating it to ideas students already know. Making cross-disciplinary connections also makes the material more engaging, accessible and memorable. In this study, we perform a controlled empirical test to examine whether providing cross-discipline...
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Biased beliefs and entry into scientific careers
Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - 2020
provision of structured information on the true state of the academic market and information through role models on non …
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Self-perceptions about academic achievement : evidence from Mexico City
Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2020
A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but … attending relatively better schools, tend to process new information on their own ability more effectively. …
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Determinants of the community mobility during the COVID-19 epidemic: the role of government regulations and information
Mendolia, Silvia; Stavrunova, Olena; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2020
information about the location-specific pandemic trends from the effects of the government-imposed social distancing mandates …, retail and recreational activities, etc), while information on country-specific counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths is used … as a proxy for the information about the spread of the pandemic available to the population. A detailed index of …
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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …
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Testing
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - 2018
School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions : an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program
Oosterbeek, Hessel (contributor);  … - 2008
education ; program evaluation ; entrepreneur competencies ; entrepreneur intentions …
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From startup to success : using Gen Z entrepreneurs to teach economics
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Mateer, G. Dirk - 2025
This paper builds upon the work of McCaffrey (2016) who explores how economics can enhance entrepreneurship education. We extended the work of McCaffrey in two distinct ways. First, we emphasize the economic understanding every private enterprise needs to be successful. Second, we developed...
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