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effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …
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When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose student cheating at the individual level and correlate it with … exam score (PES). The experiment involved two classes of third-year economics students incentivized by a competitive reward …
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We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study …
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welfare fraud but report their income honestly anyway; (iii) examples of low compliance tend to increase tax evasion while …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to … 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 …
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assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …
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fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats …
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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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