Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23526
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionspapier No. 8
Publisher: 
Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Hamburg
Abstract: 
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 non-economics 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.
Subjects: 
Economists
fairness
learning
selection
attitudes
JEL: 
D63
A12
A20
A13
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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