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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Black, Sandra E. - 2012
these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are …
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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field : An Experiment in Public Transportations
Dai, Zhixin - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just...
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Fighting Corruption in Education : What Works and Who Benefits?
Borcan, Oana - 2015
fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats …
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Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
Siniver, Erez - 2017
The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating and the GPA. The present paper reports the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose...
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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
Bagues, Manuel - 2017
In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia. About 5% of them have published in journals included in...
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011
measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud …
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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and 'the Broken Windows' Effect : An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Lefèbvre, Mathieu - 2011
welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …
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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict : Evidence from the Philippines
Crost, Benjamin - 2013
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It … paper examines the relationship between election fraud and post-election violence in the 2007 Philippine mayoral elections … elections through fraud. In addition, we show that narrow incumbent victories were associated with an increase in post …
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …
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Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Galeotti, Fabio; Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
Deterrence institutions are widely used in modern societies to discourage rule violations but whether they have an impact beyond their immediate scope of application is usually ignored. Using a quasi-experiment, we found evidence of spillover effects across contexts. We identified fraudsters and...
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