THE IMPACT OF CLASSROOM EXPERIMENTS ON THE LEARNING OF ECONOMICS - ANEMPIRICAL-INVESTIGATION

This paper provides limited evidence on the effectiveness of a simple classroom experiment. In different courses in environmental economics or public finance, a brief take-some game was performed. Students who took part in this classroom experiment, as well as those who just watc hed it, were more successful in answering a multiple-choice test on th e ''tragedy of the commons'' than control groups from the same courses .