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Learning Millennial-Style
Carlin, Bruce I.; Jiang, Li; Spiller, Stephen A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The growing use of on-line educational content and related video services has changed the way people access education, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. In this paper, we characterize how video content affects individual decision-making and willingness to share in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950669
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The Economics of Online Postsecondary Education: MOOCs, Nonselective Education, and Highly Selective Education
Hoxby, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
education (HSPE) in which institutions invest in students in return for repayments much later in life. The analysis suggests … larger number of students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119821
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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric; Snowberg, Erik - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions from the economic effects of party control of government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652813
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Behavioral Indifference Curves
Komlos, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
According to the endowment effect there is some discomfort associated with giving up a good, that is to say, we are willing to give up something only if the price is greater than the price we are willing to pay for it. This implies that the indifference curves should designate a reference point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785591
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It's Good to be First: Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers
Feenberg, Daniel; Gruber, Jonathan; Ganguli, Ina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Choices are frequently made from lists where there is by necessity some ordering of options. In such situations individuals can exhibit both primacy bias towards the first option and recency bias towards the last option. We examine this phenomenon in a particularly interesting context: consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276426
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The Underrepresentation of Women in Economics: A Study of Undergraduate Economics Students
Dynan, Karen E.; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
environment. This study assesses these hypotheses by examining factors that influence undergraduate students' decisions to become … economics majors using a survey of students in the introductory economics course at Harvard University as well as data on an … entire class of students from Harvard's registrar. We find that although women in the introductory economics course at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588996
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Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education
Weinberg, Bruce A.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Hashimoto, Masanori - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
student evaluations arises, in part, because students are unaware of how much they have learned in a course. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580193
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Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education
Acemoglu, Daron; Laibson, David; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly. One concern associated with these (potentially transformative) technological changes is that they will be disequalizing - as many technologies of the last several decades have been - creating superstar teachers and a winner-take-all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951360
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a natural Experiment.
Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Fricke, Hans; Steinmayr, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students’ major choices. We exploit a natural … experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272311
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A Theory of the Consumption Function, With and Without Liquidity Constraints (Expanded Version)
Carroll, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
This paper argues that the modern stochastic consumption model, in which impatient consumers face uninsurable labor income risk, matches Milton Friedman's (1957) original description of the Permanent Income Hypothesis much better than the perfect foresight or certainty equivalent models did. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829928