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Giam Pietro Cipriani, Angelo Zago and Diego Lubian
 
''Money Illusion: Are Economists Different?''
( 2008, Vol. 1 No.3 )
 
 
We carried out a survey among a large group of undergraduate students of different disciplines and different years to test whether the study of economics or scientific majors influences the degree by which people are affected by money illusion. We find significant differences between first-year students, suggesting the presence of a selection bias towards money illusion in humanities students and away from it in economics and science students. In addiction, comparing economics students of different years, we do not find evidence of a learning effect.
 
 
Keywords: Money illusion
JEL: A2 - Economics Education and Teaching of Economics: General
E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
 
Manuscript Received : Jul 20 2008 Manuscript Accepted : Jul 28 2008

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