Teaching microeconomic principles with smartphones
Marcus Giamattei and Humberto Llavador discuss the role of experiments in teaching economic concepts and their experience conducting them through the classEx platform
Topic Archive: Education
How does competition affect the gender gap?
Nagore Iriberri and Pedro Rey-Biel use data from a math contest to find out if competition has different effects on men and women.
To Be Smart or to Be Strong: Historic Links of Investment in Education and Economic Growth in Spain
Enriqueta Camps investigates how the evolution of the education system in Spain from the 19th to the 21st century affected the country’s GDP.
Your language or mine?
How is individual behavior affected by the emotional attachment to one’s own language? Do individuals change their economic decisions because of the identification they experience with their language? And if so, how should policies be designed to enhance economic welfare? Ramon Caminal and Antonio Di Paolo take two important steps to answer these crucial questions.
