Do Business Students Make Good Citizens?

Stephan Meier and Bruno Frey

International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2004, vol. 11, issue 2, 141-163

Abstract: Business students are often portrayed as behaving too egoistically. The critics call for more social responsibility and good citizenship behavior by business students. We present evidence of pro-social behavior of business students. With a large panel data set for real-life behavior at the University of Zurich, two specific hypotheses are tested: do selfish students select into business studies or does the training in business studies negatively indoctrinate students? The evidence points to a selection effect. Business education does not seem to change the citizenship behavior of business students.

Keywords: Business Students; Public Good; Giving Behavior; Education; Selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/1357151042000222492

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