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Not guilty? : another look at the nature and nurture of economic students / Justus Haucap & Tobias Just

Haucap, Justus *1969-* ; Just, Tobias *1970-*

[Elektronische Ressource]

Englisch

Hamburg : Univ. der Bundeswehr, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, June 2003

Online-Ressource (262 KB, Text)

Druckausg.: Haucap, Justus *1969-*: Not guilty?. - Hamburg : Univ. der Bundeswehr, 2003. - 13 Bl

URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:705-opus-1366

*Deutschland

*Einstellung

*Student

*Wirtschaftswissenschaften

*Preissteigerung

Ökonomen / Gerechtigkeit / Marktmechanismus / Allokation / Schätzung / Meinung / Deutschland

Als Aufsatz endgültig erschienen / Also available as published article / Arbeitspapier / Working paper / Graue Literatur / Non-commercial literature / Buch / Book / Online-Publikation / Online publication

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation:

• QB 910: Q Wirtschaftswissenschaften / QB Allgemeines. Methoden der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Unterrichts- und Ausbildungsmethoden in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftspädagogik / Aufsatzsammlungen vermischten Inhalts

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces. We find that significantly more economics than noneconomics students judge price increases as fair. Moreover, this tendency strengthens as economics students advance in their studies. In addition, fewer advanced economics students judge allocation through the local community as fair when compared to first-year economists or other students. These results stand in contrast to results obtained by Frey, Pommerehne and Gygi (1993) on the same survey. In summary, we find evidence for both nature and nurture effects.