Do business and economics studies erode prosocial values?
Does exposure to business and economics education make students less prosocial and more selfish? Employing a difference‐in‐difference strategy with panel‐data from three subsequent cohorts of students enrolled in a Business and Economics bachelor's program (>900 students), we find that business and...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 504 - 527 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2025
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