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Wagner, Jamie (2019) “Financial Education and Financial Literacy by Income and Education Groups” Accepted at The Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning. https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrjfcp/30/1/132

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Wagner, Jamie and William B. Walstad, 2018 “The Effects of Financial Education on Short-term and Long-term Financial Behaviors” The Journal of Consumer Affairs. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joca.12210


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.

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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.

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Asarta, Carlos and Jamie Wagner, 2016 “EconEdReviews: Economics and Personal Finance Lessons and Reviews” The Journal of Economic Education, 47(4), p. 357.

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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.

Article


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.

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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.

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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.

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