In the 1970s, the percentage of high school graduates completing RN training increased with little change in the rate of return to training. During the 1980s, this percentage declined, despite large increases in the rate of return. The national data employed here examine long-run trends (with...

The incidence of the burden of a tax is usually presented as an application of elasticity in introductory economics. A more useful exposition of tax incidence results if slope is used rather than elasticity.

While there was no abstract for this brief paper, it clarifies for students that demand and supply slopes convey the burden of taxation discussion at least as well as does the more typical discussion employing elasticities.

The surprise value of many economic observations makes the economics discipline quite interesting for many students. One such anomaly is that providing “free” education in an effort to reduce the number of dropouts can often result in a lower level of educational quality purchased. This...