This paper presents an exercise for introductory economics classes for high school and undergraduate students. The students create a “Value of Human Life” function. Assigning value to human life is a necessity in many situations, from tort law to the compensation of terrorism victims. Is it...

This paper suggests the use of Russian proverbs related to money to engage Russian-speaking students in the business classroom. Russian proverbs enhance teaching by appealing to Russian students' cultural background, by presenting ideas in a concise and memorable way, and by creating a...

We provide 11 short exercises that can be used in a principles of microeconomics classroom which incorporate media clips from the Economics Media Library. The exercises have been used in both small and large classroom settings and take less than 15 minutes to complete. These teaching guides can...

This article studies the impact that the use of classroom experiments in an economics course may have on student motivation for this subject. In general, two expressions for motivation are effort and persistence, and choice of tasks. We take a sample of pre-university students in the Netherlands...

We share the view of Beckman et al (JEE, 42:3, 255-269) that economics students should be aware of the challenge to standard microeconomics from behavioural studies. In this article we provide some insights into our students' experience of what Kahneman (2011) describes as operating in...

Economic educators have been teaching with pop culture for decades, but no primary work has identified media from foreign-language sources. We provide three teaching guides that capitalize on the growth of Korean popular music and can be integrated into the principles curriculum. The three...

We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among a large and representative sample of early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student...

Nearly one million post-secondary students take an introductory economics course each year in the United States. The current mainstream introductory economics textbooks do a fine job of presenting the technical and conceptual frameworks that underlie the economic success of the market system....

Curricular reforms that emphasize instruction of basic economic concepts have affected several generations of primary-grade students. To evaluate the degree to which primary-grade students have been gaining economic literacy, this study highlights the key achievements in efforts to add economics...