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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Do Business Students make good Citizens?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Stephan Meier
  • Bruno Frey
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 148
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2003
Abstract Text Business students are portrayed as behaving too egoistically. The critics call for more socialnresponsibility and good citizenship behavior on the part of business students. We present evidence ofnpro-social behavior in business students. Every student at the University of Zurich has to decide eachnsemester whether he/she wants to contribute to two social funds administrated by the University. Withnthis large panel data set, we can analyze whether business students indeed behave less pro-socially thannother students. Two specific hypotheses are tested: do students select into business studies or does thentraining in business studies indoctrinate students in a negative way? The evidence suggests that therenmay be a selection effect going on. Therefore, economics education does not change the citizenshipnbehavior of business students.
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