Laboratory measure of cheating predicts school misconduct

Alain Cohn and Michel Maréchal

No 205, ECON - Working Papers from Department of Economics - University of Zurich

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Cheating; honesty; experiment; external validity; misconduct (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09, Revised 2017-11
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Journal Article: Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts School Misconduct (2018)
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