Are Economists Different, and If So, Why?

Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 171 - 177
Published: May 1, 1991
Abstract
Do economists behave differently from noneconomists? Some evidence suggests they do. In a well-known 1981 study in the Journal of Public Economics, Gerald Marwell and Ruth E. Ames found that free riding was significantly greater among a group of economics graduate students than among other student groups in their experiments. Marwell and Ames offered two conjectures for why economics students might in fact behave differently. First, students who...
Paper Details
Title
Are Economists Different, and If So, Why?
Published Date
May 1, 1991
Volume
5
Issue
2
Pages
171 - 177
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