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Course Requirements for Bachelor's Degrees in Economics

  • William Bosshardt
  • Michael Watts
  • William E. Becker
American Economic Review
vol. 103, no. 3, May 2013
(pp. 643-47)
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Abstract

We conducted a national survey of department Chairs to investigate whether departments of economics changed course requirements for bachelors degrees since the Siegfried and Bidani (1992) paper using 1980 data. There have been few changes to course requirements. Most notable are a large increase in the number of departments requiring econometrics and a drop in departments requiring courses such as money, banking and economic history--courses once required in many business schools.

Citation

Bosshardt, William, Michael Watts, and William E. Becker. 2013. "Course Requirements for Bachelor's Degrees in Economics." American Economic Review, 103 (3): 643-47. DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.3.643

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JEL Classification

  • A22 Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: Undergraduate