of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …

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 …