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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 …
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Ethics review boards scrutinise the recruitment of students as “over-researched” study participants. This challenges …
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This paper builds upon the work of Dalton and Logan (forthcoming a) by describing the motivation for and mechanics of teaching a course dedicated to Schumpeter as a study abroad program in the city of Vienna. We argue that the qualities Vienna possesses, both historical and contemporary, make a...
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Leveraging a “quasi-experiment” where some of the faculty at a U.S. university unexpectedly saw their teaching loads increase, we test whether the steeper requirement affected student evaluations of teaching (SET). Using the university’s aggregated SET, we find the instructors assigned...
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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 …
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obtained by students in intermediate macroeconomics at Massey University over the 2000-2011 period. Basic probability concepts … are estimated. The information is expected to help students plan their studies more effectively and increase their … calculating proxy final examination marks for students who either miss or write the final examination under extenuating …
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classroom activity to nudge students towards thinking in a backward-inductive manner. The pedagogic innovation is in introducing … become smaller and smaller in the reduced games, students stumble on to the backwardly inductive winning strategy. The …
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-learning process. This research presents a joint strategy of intervention aimed at improving students' class participation and … exercise use has improved students' grades. Although participation in class and on-line seminars seem to have no influence on … students. An analysis of the satisfaction of students shows a slightly higher preference for the active learning instruments in …
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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 …
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students in critical action. Critical action takes students beyond critical thinking, teaching them to think critically in …, students critically analyzed the neo-classical rational actor model of market failure, and then designed a project to … simultaneously test this model and undertake a socially beneficial activity. Students' reactions to the project are presented and …
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