Girardi, Daniele; Mamunuru, Sai Madhurika; Halliday, … - 2021
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 …, and policy opinions. We find no discernible effect of studying economics (whatever the course content) on self-interest or …