Since the 1990s, increasing amounts of resources have been devoted to teaching economics in grades K – 12. This raises the question of how these increased resources have impacted students entering college economics courses. This paper attempts to measure the impact high school economics...

A stochastic frontier approach is used to examine efficiency of the U.S. manufacturing sector over the 1958 – 1996 time period. A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) panel data set was used to estimate a translog cost frontier. Both fixed effects and random effects models were...