We analyze the correlation between the political orientation of investors and their financial risk tolerance. Assessing financial risk tolerance is a very important aspect to developing an appropriate long-term investing strategy. Our study is based on a sample of 129 undergraduates at Central...

We analyze the correlation between the political orientation of investors and their financial risk tolerance. Assessing financial risk tolerance is a very important aspect to developing an appropriate long-term investing strategy. Our study is based on a sample of 129 undergraduates at Central...

Felton et al. (2004) reported that web-based student evaluations of teaching (SET) demonstrated a student preference for course easiness and instructor sexiness. This study explores these same relationships with a larger and improved database. Results indicate even stronger relationships than...

College students publicly rate their professors' teaching at RateMyProfessors.com, a web page where students anonymously judge their professors on Quality, Easiness, and Sexiness. Using the data from this web site, we examine the relations between Quality, Easiness, and Sexiness for 3,190...

Value Line's timeliness rankings for common stocks are the topic of much debate and research in finance journals. The interest stems from Value Line's purported ability to select stocks that outperform the market, and such stock-selection success is considered anomalous to the market efficiency...

Recently published evidence of limited learning among American college students confirms the damage done when students, faculty, and institutions pursue interests that conflict with the educational process. The ‘disengagement compact' in which faculty tacitly trade lenient workloads and...

This research examines the role of gender and optimism on the riskiness of investment choices of students in a semester long investment contest with both monetary and academic incentives. Data suggest that males make more risky investment choices than females, and that this difference was...

College students publicly rate their professors' teaching at RateMyProfessors.com, a web page where students anonymously judge their professors on Quality, Easiness, and Sexiness. Using the data from this web site, we examine the relations between Quality, Easiness, and Sexiness for 3,190...