Corruption and cheating: Evidence from rural Thailand
| Autor: | Olaf Hübler, Melanie Koch, Lukas Menkhoff, Ulrich Schmidt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Lab-in-the-field experiment
Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science O12 Corruption Cheating media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Attendance Ethical behavior Building and Construction Development Transparency (behavior) Household survey D73 Individual characteristics ddc:330 D91 Situational ethics Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | UnpayWall ORCID Microsoft Academic Graph |
| Popis: | This study tests the prediction that perceived corruption reduces ethical behavior. Integrating a standard “cheating” experiment into a broad household survey in rural Thailand, we find tentative support for this prediction: respondents who perceive corruption in state affairs are more likely to cheat and, thus, to fortify the negative consequences of corruption. Interestingly, there is a small group of non-conformers. The main relation is robust to consideration of socio-demographic, attitudinal, and situational control variables. Attendance of others at the cheating experiment, stimulating the reputational concern to be seen as honest, reduces cheating, thus indicating transparency as a remedy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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