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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Laboratory measure of cheating predicts school misconduct
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Alain Cohn
  • Michel Maréchal
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Economic Journal
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0013-0133
Volume 128
Number 615
Page Range 2743 - 2754
Date 2018
Abstract Text Laboratory experiments provide insights into the drivers of cheating behaviour, but it is unclear to what extent cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three types of school misconduct: (i) disruptiveness in class, (ii) homework non-completion, and (iii) absenteeism. We find that students who cheat in the experimental task are more likely to misbehave at school, suggesting that experimental measures of cheating generalize to rule violating behaviour in naturally occurring environments.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/ecoj.12572
Other Identification Number merlin-id:15847
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