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Type | Working Paper |
Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
Title | Do Business Students make good Citizens? |
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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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