External validity of a laboratory measure of cheating: Evidence from Czech juvenile detention centers
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F20%3A10410262" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/20:10410262 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61384399:31150/20:00055105
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=aqrDeAQ-O4" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=aqrDeAQ-O4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109094" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109094</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
External validity of a laboratory measure of cheating: Evidence from Czech juvenile detention centers
Original language description
Evidence of external validity of laboratory measures of the propensity to cheat is scarce. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with 303 youths incarcerated in juvenile detention centers in the Czech Republic to study whether a laboratory measure of cheating correlates with their field behavior. We combine two complementary field-behavior measures: current (mis-)behavior reported by detention center staff as a short-term individual characteristic, and a sum of the types of delinquent acts (e.g. aggression, truancy, petty crimes) officially recorded as the reasons for their detention as a long-term characteristic. We find that behavior in the laboratory task measuring cheating significantly correlates with both field measures. Overall, our results suggest that the experimental cheating measure may generalize well into natural environments.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Economics Letters
ISSN
0165-1765
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
191
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
3
Pages from-to
1-3
UT code for WoS article
000532668900011
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85082707812