Crime in the Classroom: An Economic Analysis of Undergraduate Student Cheating Behavior
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in The Journal of Economic Education
- Vol. 23 (3), 197-207
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.1992.10844753
Abstract
A logit model is used to study the cheating behavior of students in two large principles of microeconomics classes: cheating is inversely related to GPA and directly related to the perception of the number of students who routinely cheat.Keywords
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