Dishonesty is ubiquitous and imposes substantial financial and social burdens on society.
Intuitively, dishonesty results from a failure of willpower to control selfish behavior. However …

We present evidence of cheating that took place in online examinations during COVID-19
lockdowns and propose two solutions with and without a camera for the cheating problem …

We conducted a randomized survey with 2,666 US residents to study preferences for
legalizing payments to kidney donors. We found strong polarization, with many participants …

We use different incentive schemes to study truth-telling in a die-roll task when people are
asked to reveal the number rolled privately. We find no significant evidence of cheating …

We study the impact of scarcity on cheating and in-group favoritism using a two-period lab-in-
the-field experiment with low-income coffee farmers in a small, isolated village in …

Under test-based accountability, side-effects—including practices to inflate test results, often
seen as cheating—are usually associated to so-called high-stakes policies. However, the …

Assessment-led school reforms are a central pillar of policy packages recommended to
address low student achievement in developing countries. We use direct audit evidence to …

Incentive plans are a core component of many radiology positions and are often considered
a major factor in the ability to recruit and retain high-performing radiologists. Financial …

A central, yet understudied, component of state capacity is the quality of administrative data,
which is a key enabler of effective policy making. I study this in the context of education …

We study cheating behavior in a large sample of elementary school children in the context of
a creative performance task, in the presence and absence of performance incentives. Our …