Effects of economic education on undergraduate knowledge of economic issues

Gary L Shelley; Caleb Pitkin

doi:https://www.westga.edu/~bquest/2011/economics11.pdf

Effects of economic education on undergraduate knowledge of economic issues

Gary L Shelley
, Caleb Pitkin

Department of Economics and Finance

East Tennessee State University

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the results of a survey of undergraduate students in upper-level, policy oriented classes regarding their understanding of current economic policy issues. It is found that the percentage of survey questions answered correctly is significantly higher for respondents with formal economic education in the form of a high school economics class or is a college economics major. Students with a higher reported interest in economics and those with a reported Libertarian political philosophy also scored significantly higher. In addition, males scored significantly higher than females on this set of survey questions.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	17
Journal	B>Quest
DOIs	https://doi.org/https://www.westga.edu/~bquest/2011/economics11.pdf
State	Published - 2011

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