Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67183 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6967
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector in the administration and marking of the tests, to estimate a structural (endogenous) social multiplier in students' cheating. The empirical strategy exploits the Excess-Variance approach (Graham, 2008). We find a strong amplifying role played by social interactions within classrooms: students' cheating behaviors more than double the class average test scores results. The effects are found to be larger when students are more homogeneous in terms of parental background characteristics and social ties.
Subjects: 
social multiplier
students' cheating
randomized experiment
JEL: 
C31
D62
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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