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 …

There is much debate as to why economics students display more self-interested behavior than other students: whether … homo economicus self-select into economics or students are instead “indoctrinated” by economics learning, and whether these … questions we show that, compared to students in other majors, econ students report being: (i) more self-interested (in …

economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the … any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in …

economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the … any empirical support that male participants are more corrupt in comparison to female participants. Students majoring in …

Ethics review boards scrutinise the recruitment of students as “over-researched” study participants. This challenges … economics ethics code to address the growing awareness and governance of experimental ethics issues …

This paper describes a classroom experiment suitable for elementary school students in which participants are actively … engaged in making trading decisions. Students are provided an endowment of gum and are asked to make trading decisions to … acquire chocolate. As the opportunity cost of acquiring a piece of chocolate rises, fewer students are willing to make trades …

students in two ways. The “payoff” in the game involves the possibility of students earning a small number of extra points …. Also, we find that presenting experimental results to students enhances their interest in the material. For example, we … find evidence that female students are less likely to “defect” than are male students, and that international students are …

More than three decades of intense interest in and scholarship about the determinants of student learning of economics … economics course due to assigning graded versus non-graded problem sets. We identify statistically significant and meaningful … problem set effects for. Graded problem sets raised the average students' exam performance enough to increase their course GPA …

attention and engagement of college students. By observing the behavior of a large population of participants in an identical … on such lecture participation drives this result. Interestingly, among those students who actually execute a given task …

economics course made the students increase their effort and persistence for this subject and/or raised the likelihood that they …This article studies the impact that the use of classroom experiments in an economics course may have on student … a sample of pre-university students in the Netherlands to determine if the introduction of experiments in their …