We examine whether access to higher education impacts household saving rates. A 2-period model of household saving decisions demonstrates why increased college opportunities induce households with children to save more. We...
Al-Bahrani, Abdullah, Maria Apostolova-Mihaylova, and Emily C. Marshall. "Helping Some and Harming Others: Homework Frequency and Tradeoffs in Student Performance." The Journal of Economic Education 53, no. 3 (2022) 197-209....
From 2012 to 2019, the proportion of undergraduate economics degrees denoted as “Econometrics and Quantitative Economics” (STEM-eligible) conferred annually increased from 1 percent to 22 percent. The authors present results...
Economic education has emerged as an important subfield in economics over the last several decades. This paper explores the author gender breakdown found in economic education journals compared to top-tier, general-interest...
We use a two-sector dynamic deterministic general equilibrium model that specifically accounts for trends among time-series variables to estimate the size of the shadow economy for the 50 U.S. states from 1999 to 2019,...
Guo, Hao, Chenxu Hu, and Xiaozhou Ding. "Son Preference, Intrahousehold Discrimination, and the Gender Gap in Education in China." International Review of Economics and Finance 79 (2022): 324-339....
Common intellectual experiences (CIEs) are one of the lesser-known modalities that have been identified as a high impact practice (HIP) in higher education. This mixed-methods study assesses the outcomes of a short-term CIE,...
Paul Ko is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College. , Kirss, Alexander, Paul Ko, and Cleo O'Brien-Udry. '“Less Stress, More Confidence”: Supporting Junior Scholars Online at the Graduate Student International Political...