Enhancing Prosocial Attitudes: Evidence from the Scholarship Program Reform by Korea University
2019/04/02
研討會日期 : 2019-04-02
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Seung-Gyu (Andrew) Sim
主持人 : Professor Hsuan-Chih Lin
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Sim received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University. His research interests are Labor Economics (including both macro and micro Approach), and Applied Microeconomics.
演講摘要 : We extend the conventional perspective of economic research, that individuals' preferences are exogenously given or shaped by exogenous shocks, to assess whether and to what extent an artificial policy intervention that requires adult individuals to engage in social activities can nurture pro-social attitudes. In particular, we exploit the novel experience of Korea University's social work-based scholarship program, which obligates recipients to teach children of low-income families, to disentangle the nurturing, proximity, self-selection, and screening effects on preferences. The estimated model provides strong evidence for the nurturing hypothesis, that is, that `social engagement enhances pro-social attitudes.'
