TY - JOUR
T1 - The labor market return to academic fraud
AU - Mavisakalyan, Astghik
AU - Meinecke, Juergen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Academic fraud by undergraduate students is pervasive, but should it be taken seriously as an economic problem? Our research suggests so. Using a unique data set from the Caucasus, we estimate a large positive effect of academic fraud on the probability of employment. Econometrically, we deal with endogenous selection into academic fraud and possible measurement error in the reporting of academic fraud using partial identification techniques. The findings demonstrate that incentives to commit academic fraud are strong and point towards the potentially damaging consequences of academic fraud in broader settings.
AB - Academic fraud by undergraduate students is pervasive, but should it be taken seriously as an economic problem? Our research suggests so. Using a unique data set from the Caucasus, we estimate a large positive effect of academic fraud on the probability of employment. Econometrically, we deal with endogenous selection into academic fraud and possible measurement error in the reporting of academic fraud using partial identification techniques. The findings demonstrate that incentives to commit academic fraud are strong and point towards the potentially damaging consequences of academic fraud in broader settings.
KW - Academic fraud
KW - Labor market signaling
KW - Partial identification
KW - Selection on unobservables
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U2 - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.11.005
DO - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.11.005
M3 - Article
SN - 0014-2921
VL - 82
SP - 212
EP - 230
JO - European Economic Review
JF - European Economic Review
ER -