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success. Based on data from a natural experiment, we estimate the gains in student cognitive achievement in an introductory …
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The education and application of skills in it is an essential prerequisite for the growth and development of each national economy in the future. Investing in education and skills development are essential incentive for raising the growth and competitiveness of each country and its participation...
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We present a simple classroom principal-agent experiment that can effectively be used as a teaching device to introduce … agents and decide on an effort level. The experiment can be used to introduce students to the concepts of efficiency …
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Over the last decade, randomized evaluations have taken the field of development economics by storm. Despite the availability of strong review pieces in the topic, there is no pedagogical paper on randomized evaluation. This paper bridges the gap by introducing three interactive classroom games...
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The paper presents a classroom experiment designed to improve undergraduate students' understanding of how banks create …
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I present a classroom experiment designed to help students learn (1) decision-making using marginal analysis; (2) the … trade; and (6) the ability of a competitive market to create a Pareto-efficient outcome. The innovation of the experiment … lies in its comprehensiveness and in the identical opportunities faced by all students.The experiment has two parts. There …
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Spanish Abstract: Este artículo busca proponer alternativas de enseñanza para un curso de Introducción a la Economía, utilizando la herramienta de Economía Experimental. De este modo, se introducen dos juegos Holt (1996) y Goeree y Holt (1999) en tres grupos, los cuales se centran en los...
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This paper presents an in-class experiment used as a teaching tool in an introductory microeconomics class at the … undergraduate college level. It is directed at a critical but challenging concept for principles students — constrained utility …
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understand the nature, causes and forms of bounded rationality in individual choice, we present a flexible classroom experiment …. Beyond providing students with some first-hand evidence of bounded rationality, the experiment shows how a range of factors … experiment can be conducted with any number of students and takes approximately 30 minutes to conduct, with a further 10 …
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-experimental design on a sample of 100 students of an undergraduate economics class at NYU. A control group has to fill out the …
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