Comportements (non) éthiques et stratégies morales

Abstract

Cet article a bénéficié des commentaires reçus lors de la journée de la Revue Économique du 11 janvier 2019. Je suis également reconnaissante à mes co-auteurs pour les nombreuses discussions qui ont permis d'enrichir ce texte.1 D'autres revues de littérature sur le mensonge incluent Irlenbusch et al. [2015], Jacobsen et al.

Cheating and Incentives: Learning from a Policy Experiment

“…We settled on using the ω index with a threshold value α = 10 −5 and calculating item response parameters and individual talent using both the control group and the treatment groups. 4 The question might be raised of whether students who study together could have similar answer sheets and thus be more likely to be accused of cheating with respect to students who do not study with others (a frequent student defense when accused of copying). The length of the multiple-choice exam that we used and the high threshold for detecting cheating makes the statistical likelihood of false accusations of cheating to students who worked together very unlikely.…”