Effects of Classroom Experiments for Economic Education

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590203
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Osaka Sangyo University
• Principal Investigator: Otani Go 大阪産業大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (70605641)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 後藤 達也 大阪産業大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (50339610) ; 藤井 陽一朗 大阪産業大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80635376)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Kawamura Tetsuya 日本経済大学, 経営学部・経営学科, 講師 (20643505) ; Kikuchi Mari 大阪産業大学, 経済学部・経済学科, 准教授 (10616585) ; Saito Ryuji 大阪産業大学, 経済・学部・経済学科, 准教授 (50340609)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 実験経済学 / 導入教育 / 教育効果 / 教室実験 / 最低賃金法 / 教育経済学 / 労働経済学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine whether economic experiments can be utilized as introduction education of economics education. This kind of study has already been carried out abroad, and the effectiveness of experimental method as introduction education is supported, but this kind of research is hardly advanced in Japan.
in this study, we conducted experiments with students as subjects and examined the effect of economic experiments as introduction education. As a result, it was confirmed through multiple experiments that the student who studied through participation in the classroom experiment gained higher performance than the student who received the traditional lecture lecture. This suggests that economic experiments may be effective as an introduction education for economics.

Free Research Field

労働経済学、教育経済学、マクロ経済学