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Report of the Committee on Economic Education

The Committee presented three paper sessions at the 2007 AEA meetings in Chicago. A session on “The Market and Premarket for Graduate Students in Economics” was organized and chaired by Alan Krueger. One paper in the session, by Paul Oyer (Stanford), investigates how macroeconomic conditions affect initial placements, how initial placement affects long-term success, and how patterns in career progression relate to the organizational form of economics departments. A paper by Wayne Grove (LeMoyne College) and Stephen Wu (Hamilton College) studies the relationship between graduate school admissions criteria, degree completion rates, and career publications. A third paper, by Susan Athey (Harvard), Lawrence Katz (Harvard), Alan Krueger (Princeton), Steven Levitt (Chicago), and James Poterba (MIT), investigates how well GRE scores predict student performance in both microeconomics and macroeconomics, the relationship between first-year performance in graduate school and attrition rates for males and females, first-year performance as a predictor of job market placements across different subfields, and the effect of firstyear performance in student choices of courses and fields in the second year of their programs. Three Committee members—David Colander, Michael Salemi, and Wendy Stock—were discussants. These three papers are published in this issue of the AER. The second session dealt with the “Evaluation and Time Allocations in Teaching Economics.” It was organized by Michael Watts and chaired by Barry Chiswick. Four papers were included: “Student Evaluation of Teaching Revisited” by Bruce Weinberg, Belton Fleisher, and Masanori Hashimoto (all of Ohio State); “Time Allocations and Reward Structures for Academic Economists from 1995–2005” by Cynthia Harter (Eastern Kentucky), William Becker (Indiana University), and Michael Watts (Purdue); “Time Allocations to Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching in Economics and Other Disciplines” by Sam Allgood and William Walstad (both at Nebraska, Lincoln); and “Long-Term Effects of Economics Coursework on College Graduates’ Behaviors and Outcomes in the Labor Market” by Report of the Committee on Economic Education

DOI

10.1257/aer.97.2.563

Volume

97 (2)

Pages

563-565

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