Exhibit 1172 ยท Journal article
Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service: Evidence from India
Students in India who cheat on a simple laboratory task are more likely to prefer public sector jobs.
Indian students who cheat on a laboratory task are more likely to prefer public sector jobs, and cheating predicts corrupt behavior by later civil servants. Abstract read (Crossref).
- Source
- Hanna and Wang, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9(3):262-290
- Date
- August 2017
- Quoted from
- Abstract
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20150029
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Standing note: well-known and contested. Barfort et al. 2019 (next exhibit) find the opposite sign in Denmark; Dal Bo et al. 2017 find positive competence selection in Sweden. Selection depends on the setting (pay, corruption level). Cite as one side of a split literature or not at all.