Using data that identify the respondents to Student Evaluation of Teaching, the author finds that respondents and nonrespondents are different, along several characteristics. Students respond more if they are first-term freshmen, or if the course is a major requirement. Men, students with light...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

Economic views held by the general public tend to differ significantly from those of economic experts. To what extent would these differences fade away if people were exposed to economic instruction? In this paper we identify first-year college students' initial preconceptions about economic...

Nach der schrittweisen Umstellung der alten Hochschulabschlüsse auf ein Bachelor-/Master-System stellt sich die Frage, wie dies von Studierenden und Unternehmen angenommen und bewertet wird. Die Autoren zeigen für Universitäten und Fachhochschulen, wie sich die Einführung des Bachelors unter...

Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...

This paper surveys 260 students taking Principles of Macroeconomics and/or Principles of Microeconomics during the fall semester of 2005 to see whether attitudes toward economics have changed compared to a similar survey given to students in 1988. General results show that students in the more...

Since opinion leaders are usually university graduates, the field of study has an influence on public support for economic policies and policy reforms intended to enhance efficiency because advocating such policies often requires appreciation of the beneficial roles of markets and economic...