ECON 148
Behavioral Economics
Grades
3.38
Average grade awarded in ECON 148. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
41%
of the 825 letter grades
D, F or W
0.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
6 of 6 students passed
The registrar's own records: 825 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.32 to 3.45.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 34 · 4.1%
- A 141 · 17.1%
- A- 166 · 20.1%
- B+ 221 · 26.8%
- B 161 · 19.5%
- B- 79 · 9.6%
- C+ 20 · 2.4%
- C 2 · 0.2%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- P 6 of 834
- I 2 of 834
- DR 1 of 834
Percentages are of the 825 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LU, JAY YIN JIE reviews ↗ | 3.38 | 3.38 | 825 | 4 | 41% | light | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 8 reviewers
- 2 problem sets, said by 8 reviewers
Read from 20 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 5 courses long before ECON 148. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ECON 148 in Spring 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 101. Behavioral economics is emerging subfield of economics that incorporates insights from psychology and other social sciences into economics to improve realism of economic models by incorporating realistic features such as aversion for losses, problems with self control, or concerns for others and thereby improve economic analyses. Review of some standard assumptions made in economics and examination of evidence on how human behavior systematically departs from these assumptions. Investigation of attempts to explore alternative models of human decision making and assessment to what extent these alternative models help improve economic analyses. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
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