For students taking intermediate-level economics, does it matter where they studied principles of economics? Does transferring college credit influence subsequent academic performance in economics? With a sample covering 1999--2008, the authors analyze in this article a group of nearly 1,000...

The term “Discouraged-Business-Major” (DBM) describes students who become discouraged with the rigorous standards of colleges of business and migrate to colleges of arts and sciences to complete a degree in economics under relaxed requirements (Salemi and Eubanks 1996). Following Salemi and...

The recent widespread adoption of online competitions in economic education provides a unique opportunity to make frequent assessments of economic literacy in U.S. classrooms. In this survey, student responses to test items from the Test of Economic Literacy (TEL) are used to create economic...

Classroom cheating is found to be negatively related to GPA and positively related to observing others cheat. The effect of student expectations of penalties may be sensitive to the model specification.