Does studying economics make you selfish?

被引：1

作者：

Girardi, Daniele ^{[1
,2
]}

Mamunuru, Sai Madhurika ^{[3
]}

Halliday, Simon D. ^{[4
,5
]}

Bowles, Samuel ^{[6
,7
]}

机构：

[1] Kings Coll London, Dept Polit Econ, London, England

[2] Univ Massachusetts Amherst, Dept Econ, Amherst, MA 01002 USA

[3] Whitman Coll, Dept Econ, Walla Walla, WA 99362 USA

[4] Univ Bristol, Sch Econ, Bristol, England

[5] Stanford Univ, Ctr Adv Study Behav Sci, Stanford, CA USA

[6] Santa Fe Inst, Behav Sci Program, Santa Fe, NM USA

[7] CORE Econ, London, England

来源：

SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL | 2024年 / 90卷 / 03期

关键词：

economics education; social preferences; HOMO-ECONOMICUS; TRUST; INFERENCE; EDUCATION; STUDENTS; EXPOSURE; TIME;

D O I：

10.1002/soej.12672

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

It is widely held that studying economics makes you more selfish and politically conservative. We use a difference-in-differences strategy to disentangle the causal impact of economics education from selection effects. We estimate the effect of four different intermediate microeconomics courses on students' experimentally elicited social preferences and beliefs about others, and policy opinions. We find no discernible effect of studying economics (whatever the course content) on self-interest or beliefs about others' self-interest. Results on policy preferences also point to little effect, except that economics may make students somewhat less opposed to highly restrictive immigration policies.

引用

页码：792 / 814

页数：23

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