Dishonesty and Public Employment

We study the link between dishonesty and selection into public employment. When military conscription was mandatory in Argentina, eligibility was determined by a lottery and by a medical examination. In order to avoid conscription, drafted individuals had strong incentives to cheat in their medical...

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Autores principales: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio, Rossi, Martín, Schargrodsky, Ernesto
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
Military service
Conscription
Public sector
State capacities
Cheating
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/121702
https://aaep.org.ar/anales/works/works2020/Rossi.pdf
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SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Military service
Conscription
Public sector
State capacities
Cheating
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Military service
Conscription
Public sector
State capacities
Cheating
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Rossi, Martín
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
Dishonesty and Public Employment
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Military service
Conscription
Public sector
State capacities
Cheating
description We study the link between dishonesty and selection into public employment. When military conscription was mandatory in Argentina, eligibility was determined by a lottery and by a medical examination. In order to avoid conscription, drafted individuals had strong incentives to cheat in their medical examination. These incentives varied with the lottery number. Exploiting this exogenous variation in the propensity to engage in dishonest behavior during early adulthood (the “impressionable” years), we find that individuals with higher probability of having cheated in their health checks as young adults also show higher propensity to become public employees later in life.
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author Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Rossi, Martín
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
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Rossi, Martín
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
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title Dishonesty and Public Employment
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https://aaep.org.ar/anales/works/works2020/Rossi.pdf
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