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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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May 3, 2022

Moneyball as a Resource for Teaching Economics (White & Wooten)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2022/2022-5.pdf
The Teaching Economics with Moneyball website (https://www.moneyballsimulator.info/) includes material we have identified, created, and collated over the years and includes updates to a simulator that can […]
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March 22, 2022

Teaching Monetary Policy with Ample Reserves (Ihrig & Wolla)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2023/2023-1.pdf
The way monetary policy is implemented has changed. The Fed moved from a limited reserves regime, where reserves in the banking system are scarce, to an […]
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January 1, 2022

Using the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Mechanism to Teach Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus (Schubert)

http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/2022/2022-4.pdf
The Becker DeGroot Marschak (BDM) mechanism is a widely-used technique to elicit subjects’ willingness to pay for ordinary consumer and environmental goods. In this article, I […]
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