Credit: Josephine Buccini Economics majors at Penn are no longer required to take MATH 1400: "Calculus I" and MATH 1410: "Calculus II" after the creation of two new math courses. In an attempt to ...

We also introduce a new model specification that accounts for the censoring and discrete nature of the outcome variable (grade received). The results from this specification echo the conclusions of ...

In this paper, I examine how a math-competency requirement affects student performance in an introductory economics course. Students were given a basic math-competency quiz at the beginning of the ...