Resources for Teachers

Teacher effectiveness is negatively correlated with student evaluations.

• More: 1, 2, 3

Remote learning has been a disaster.

A short econometrics refresher taught by Nobelist Joshua Angrist that I've found highly useful.

Useful example for teaching subsidies and quotas: 1 , 2

For teaching about the 2008 financial crisis:

• Short, illustrative video that I've found useful (although not fully accurate): The Crisis of Credit Visualized

• 12 Myths about the Financial Crisis

  • In the same spirit: The Big Con – Reassessing the "Great" Recession and its "Fix" (interview)

• John Cochrane on the Financial Crisis

• Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier? Rajan (2005)

For teaching monetary economics:

• Everybody knows about FRED but few know about FRED's very interesting weblog: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/

• The excellent Macro Musings podcast: https://www.mercatus.org/tags/macro-musings

For health economics:

• A nice video about the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: https://www.rand.org/health-care/projects/HIE-40.html

• A useful data series (among many) from Our World in Data (can be nicely juxtaposed along a list of countries by life expectancy)

• For teaching adverse selection & moral hazard using simple supply & demand: Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures (Einav & Finkelstein, 2011)

How to reconcile the conflicting numbers on income/wealth inequality:

• Measuring Income Concentration – A Guide for the Confused

How to reconcile (or not) the various theories of the declining labor share:

• Why is the labor share of income declining? An informal meta-analysis