Big Ideas
Aine Seitz McCarthy
  • Blog
  • About

Why do economics students donate less?

12/23/2011

2 Comments

 
Picture
This is always a relevant question... especially when I hang out with my interdisciplinary grad student nerdfriends. The graph above basically explains their results studying University of Washington undergrads:

We find that economics majors are less generous than students majoring in a
non-economics discipline within the College of Arts and Sciences, and that this lack of generosity is due to selection, not indoctrination. But we also find an indoctrination effect for non-majors: voluntary giving by non-majors – but not by majors– declines significantly after exposure to microeconomics instruction.

I feel motivated to make a holiday donation.

Addendum (1/1/2011):

In donated to Partners in Health (Paul Farmer is brilliant) and Wikipedia (a public good!).

2 Comments
Lukáš link
3/27/2012 07:01:28 pm

nice post

Reply
Buy WOW Gold link
7/31/2012 05:16:00 pm

love your post

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Aine Seitz McCarthy

    International development, economics and some pretty ambitious ideas from a stubborn graduate student clinging to her sense of adventure.


    Categories

    All
    Agriculture
    Amusements
    Books
    Camp
    Demography
    Economics
    Education
    Family Planning
    Fieldwork
    Futball
    Gender
    Grad School
    International Development
    News
    Public Policy
    Research
    Travel

    RSS Feed

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.