Research and Publications
Current Publications
Wagner, Jamie and William B. Walstad, 2016 “The Effects of Financial Education on Short-term and Long-term Financial Behaviors” Accepted at The Journal of Consumer Affairs.
Wagner, Jamie “Financial Education and Financial Literacy by Income and Education Groups” Accepted at The Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning.
Walstad, William B., Carly Urban, Jamie Wagner, et al., 2017 “Perspectives on Evaluation in Financial Education: Landscape, Issues, and Studies” The Journal of Economic Education 48.2 (2017): 93-112.
Walstad, William B., Carly Urban, Jamie Wagner, et al., 2016 “Perspectives on Evaluation in Financial Education: Landscape, Issues, and Studies” National Endowment for Financial Education White Paper.
Asarta, Carlos and Jamie Wagner, 2016 “EconEdReviews: Economics and Personal Finance Lessons and Reviews” The Journal of Economic Education, 47(4), p. 357.
Walstad, William B., and Jamie Wagner. "The disaggregation of value-added test scores to assess learning outcomes in economics courses." The Journal of Economic Education 47.2 (2016): 121-131.
Breitbach, Elizabeth, Chandini Sankaran, and Jamie Wagner. 2016 “The Movement to Online Course Evaluations: Do we hear from more complainers?” Perspectives in Economic Education Research (PEER) 10 (1) 41-56.
Walstad, W. B., Tharayil, A., Wagner, J., Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-Revised, Published, "Financial Literacy and Financial Education in High School," Springer, 2, 131-140. April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016.
Lessons
Paper Airplanes and Paper Fans—Developing a PPF (Jamie Wagner, University of Nebraska)
This in-class exercise has students create a classroom PPF by producing paper airplanes and paper fans. This activity is simple to implement in about 15-20 minutes but has lasting impacts and applications.