Penn Professors on Writing in Economics
Professor Rebecca Stein
About the Professor
Professor Stein is Director of the Microeconomic Principles Program in the Economics Department. She has taught here at Penn since 1998 and has received several awards for her distinguished teaching including the Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty. Her research is in Health Economics and she is a senior Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute.
Important Criteria for Student Writing
In Economics 001, Introduction to Microeconomics, Professor Stein's does not assign papers. Rather, Professor Stein assigns data sets and expects short 2 to 3 sentence responses. The writing involve in Economics 001 is explanatory with justificatory elements.
Some typical student errors that Professor Stein sees are confusing correlation with causality and not thinking through logistical pathways. Students should be able to interpret a link between an economic model, e.g. graph, and writing.
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Professor Jere Behrman
Professor George Mailath
Professor Petra Todd
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