Creating and interpreting a production possibilities curve part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
C. Lucy Malakar, Lorain County Community College
Students will read an article about how the hurricanes of September 2017 damaged crops in Georgia and use the information provided to create a production possibilities frontier. Students will use their production ...

Price insensitivity for branded EpiPen part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Phil Ruder, Pacific University
This exercise asks student teams to select the most important reason that consumers are insensitive to price changes in the branded EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector based on a before-class reading of a news article ...

Game theory: externalities, the prisoner's dilemma and Nash equilibrium as seen in South Park part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
C. Lucy Malakar, Lorain County Community College
After viewing a brief segment of a South Park episode, students create a game theory matrix and apply the concepts of the Prisoner's Dilemma and Nash Equilibrium.

Nonlinear Budget Constraints part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Doug McKee, Cornell University-Endowed Colleges
Teams graph both linear and nonlinear budget constraints and identify optimal choices for consumers with different preferences.

Comparing Market Structures part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Amber Casolari, Riverside City College
Working in predetermined teams of 4-5 students, teams will examine and identify the market structure for cell phone operating systems. After examining the current market structure, teams will be asked to analyze ...

Protectionist versus Free Trade Policies part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Jimena Gonzalez, Manhattan College
Prior to class, students listen and read the following: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-eat-americas-jobs/. In this episode, Steven Dubner, Freakonomics host, interviews David Autor, an MIT economist, about ...

Incorporating Community-Based Research in a Course on the Economics of Poverty part of Teaching Methods:Service Learning:Examples
Steven Bednar, Elon University and Nicole Simpson, Colgate University
A community-based research project in an economics of poverty course connects students to the issues that nonprofit organizations are facing in serving low-income households.

Cartel game part of Teaching Methods:Classroom Experiments:Examples
Enrique Valdes, Florida International University
This is a game that puts students in a groups to interact as if they were firms in a cartel. This game will illustrate how oligopoly's are inherently unstable.

An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Control Trials part of Teaching Methods:Classroom Experiments:Examples
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Franklin and Marshall College
This activity provides a classroom impact evaluation exercise that serves as an introduction to the primary investigative tool of current Development economics.

Replicating Results of Famous Empirical Papers part of Teaching Methods:Undergraduate Research:Examples
Steve DeLoach, Elon University