We employ a production function approach to analyze the performance of our intermediate theory students. The dependent …

reconstructing frames and identity options offered to undergraduate students relating to the questions "Why study economics?"and "Who …By conducting a discourse analysis (SKAD) in the field of academic economics textbooks, this paper aims at … do I become by studying economics?". The analysis showed three major frames and respective identity offerings, all of …

Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …

different students studying economics. Resource students at a New Zealand university, obliged to take an introductory principles … course designed primarily for commerce students, experienced significantly poorer outcomes than their commerce counterparts …. Inspired by Schumpeter's concept, a new course motivated the resource students to engage with the subject by paying careful …

This paper tries to shed light on the question "do economics majors learn to 'think like economists'?" by investigating … an unusual data set consisting of student evaluations of other students' research papers. The way the data set was … collected minimizes incentives for students to grade strategically, to give their friends higher grades and so forth. The range …

as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The …

survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields …This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a … methods developed in labor and conflict economics. We find a positive relationship between the study of economics and …

Economics needs a set of agreed facts to create a scientific economic paradigm, without which economics remains trapped … progress which defines modern civilization. Misguided by some philosophers of science, economics has put the theoretical cart …

Literature shows that retrieval of knowledge improves students' performance on exams (e.g., McDaniel et al. 2007 …; Roediger et al. 2011). In this study, we provide students in online and face-to-face Principles of Macroeconomics courses with … practice questions that resemble the ones given on an actual exam and require a sample of the students to submit their answers …