Volumes 5-9 Archives - Page 2 of 7 - Journal of Economics Teaching

February 18, 2024

A Random Walk Down San Fernando Street (Malek & Estill)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2024/2024-2.pdf

The entrepreneur is the intermediary who combines inputs to satisfy consumers, takes risks, and creates new and improved goods and processes. Adam Smith, Jean Baptiste Say, […]

February 14, 2024

Break in the Chain: An Excel-Driven Supply and Demand Student Case Study of the Beef Processing Industry During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Decker & Bredthauer)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2024/2024-1.pdf

In this paper, we develop a simple Excel-driven supply and demand spreadsheet model that instructors can easily implement in their classes to help students understand the […]

February 13, 2024

Speaking to a General Audience: Activities for an Economics Capstone Course (Marks, Barnwell, & Crute)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2024/2024-3.pdf

Students in the economics capstone course usually complete regression-based projects and learn to write for and speak to their peers. However, students must be able to […]

July 24, 2023

Evaluating Covid-19 Fiscal Policies: Teaching Pandemic Fiscal Policies through Cooperative Learning (Green)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2022/2022-13.pdf

The Covid-19 pandemic presents an opportunity for economic educators to teach fiscal policy through cooperative learning. This paper presents a lesson that has students evaluate a […]

July 22, 2023

Reflecting on Reflection (Chakraborti & Pradhan)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2023/2023-2.pdf

This article presents three novel ways of enhancing student reflection on assignments for better concept mapping and improved learning outcomes in the economics classroom. All three […]

July 21, 2023

Microeconomics for Business: Writing Assignments on Porter’s Five Competitive Forces (Staveley-O’Carroll)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2023/2023-3.pdf

Groups of microeconomic principles students analyze the impact of Porter’s five competitive forces on an existing company. Five essays cover the forces: suppliers, substitutes, buyers, rivals, […]

July 20, 2023

P-Hacking Made Easy (Herndon)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2023/2023-4.pdf

Using a public data set of Major League Baseball salaries and on-field statistics, this paper runs regressions for all possible combinations of the selected control variables […]

December 23, 2022

Introducing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria: Payoffs vs. Probabilities (Eggleston)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2022/2022-9.pdf

Students are usually taught to compute mixed-strategy equilibria in 2 × 2 games by determining what mixed strategy each player must play in order for the […]

November 23, 2022

All I Want for Christmas is an A on My Econ Final: A Holiday-Themed Review Class (Mandzik)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2022/2022-10.pdf

Traditionally, final exams for the fall semester are sandwiched between Thanksgiving and the winter holiday season. Regrettably, the flurry of academic and extracurricular events creates an […]

October 7, 2022

A Stroll Down the Dollar Street: Teaching Per-Capita GDP Using Internationally Comparable Photographs (Maximova, Muchiri, & Paraschiv)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2022/2022-12.pdf

We propose an activity that draws on over 44,000 internationally comparable photographs (of households and their living conditions) that help students connect cross-country differences in real […]