The Impact of Peer Presence on Cheating

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Recent research has shown that the presence of peers can increase individual output both in the lab and the field. This paper tests for negative side effects of such peer settings. We investigate whether peer settings are particularly prone to cheating even if they do not provide additional monetary benefits of cheating. Participants in our real-effort experiment had the opportunity to cheat when declaring their output levels. Although cheating did not have different monetary consequences when working alone than when working in the presence of a peer, we find that cheating is a more severe problem in peer settings.(JEL J20, J30, M50).

Original languageEnglish
JournalEconomic Inquiry
Volume57
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)792-812
Number of pages21
ISSN0095-2583
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Publication statusPublished - 01.04.2019

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