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Direct linkOlivia Edwards; Jonathan Meer – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
We examine the impact of encouragement emails sent to high-performing students in a principles of microeconomics course at a large state university, aimed at motivating them to take additional economics courses and consider an economics major or minor. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find some evidence of an increase in the likelihood…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, High Achievement, College Students, Microeconomics
Angrist, Joshua; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer'rs (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results change with changes in specification or functional form. Sensitivity analysis has had a salutary but not a revolutionary effect on econometric practice.…
Descriptors: Research Design, Macroeconomics, Credibility, Essays
Figlio, David N.; Rush, Mark; Yin, Lu – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This paper presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Research Universities, Microeconomics, Internet
