Students taught using CORE perform better in all subjects

By CORE Econ | 29 Jul 2025

Buly A. Cardak, Sue O’Keefe, Yen Dan Tong, and David Walker of La Trobe University recently published their paper “Testing a new approach to teaching introductory economics: Effects on subsequent learning” in the Southern Economic Journal. The paper shows that students who took an introductory economics subject taught from CORE’s The Economy went on to perform better in all subjects compared to students taught with other texts.

Watch Buly’s five minute overview of the paper in the video below, or head to our Research on CORE page to read the paper in full.

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