healthcare professional education is the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development for doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. labour economics is the relationship between workers and employers, and the resultant effect on employment and wages. healthcare professional education ultimately produces a workforce, and that workforce is governed by the rules of...

  Healthcare professional education is the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development for doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. Labour economics is the relationship between workers and employers, and the resultant effect on employment and wages.   Healthcare professional education ultimately produces a workforce, and that workforce is governed by the rule...

My dissertation examines the causes of, and one possible program to help alleviate, urban public school district enrollment decline. Enrollment decline has plighted many cities in the Northeast and Midwest over the past two decades, leading to financial struggles and, sometimes, large school closures or reorganizations. In my first essay, " Determinants of Urban Enrollment Decline " , I describ...

Small efforts to display the relevance of economic concepts early on in a student’s education can serve to prevent the “economics is not very useful” attitude from setting in. This paper extends the work of Holt (1996) to describe a pitmarket experiment used to illustrate the concept of competitive equilibrium. In addition to detailed instructions as to how to set up and conduct a pit-market ex...

Behavioral Economics of Education During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests) as equally important drivers of later economic outcomes, and skills ...