Classroom experiments in economics continue to increase in popularity. While early experiments were often hand-run in class, now computerized online experiments are also widely available. Using a quasiexperimental approach, the authors investigated whether any difference in student achievement...

<disp-quote> <italic>The true method of knowledge is experiment</italic>. -- William Blake </disp-quote> <disp-quote> <italic>A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life</italic>. -- Erasmus Darwin </disp-quote> One associate editor's perspective on classroom experiment articles is detailed in this article. The associate editor provides recommendations for...

The literature argues that income growth leads to increased demand for environmental quality and thus reduction in pollution. Using a utility theoretic model, we hypothesize that the income--pollution relationship should depend on the level of disamenity of the pollutant. We proxy for disamenity...

An increasingly popular alternative to the lecture-oriented “chalk-and-talk” approach to teaching principles of microeconomics is the use of classroom experiments. Like other alternatives to traditional teaching methods, there exists little more than anecdotal evidence supporting the...

We analyze the process of changing ethical attitudes over time by focusing on a specific set of "natural experiments" that occurred over an 18-month period, namely, the accounting scandals that occurred involving Enron/Arthur Andersen and insider-trader allegations related to ImClone. Copyright...

Underrepresentation of women in economics is documented in many studies. Investigation of its sources at the undergraduate level is examined through students’ decisions to persist in economics, either beyond an introductory course or in their major choices. The authors add to the literature by...