Similar Search Results

Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098463

Fighting Corruption in Education : What Works and Who Benefits?

Borcan, Oana - 2015

We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic … fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats … for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was effective in reducing corruption and, in particular, that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009505

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314729

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125139

Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program

Lucifora, Claudio - 2012

We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the effects on students' achievements. We exploit a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098454

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159750

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957475

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079439

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999034

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946585