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Dishonesty and Future Public Servant's Identity

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  • Takeshi Ojima
  • Manami Tsuruta
  • Reona Hayashi
  • So Morikawa

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The injustice caused by public-sector workers can cause great harm to society. In this study, we conducted an experiment to investigate the misconduct of public-sector workers. We divided prospective public servants into two groups: treatment and control groups. To measure their cheating behaviors in the treatment group, participants were required to carry out a priming task to strengthen their awareness as future public servants, before conducting a cheating task (20 rounds). In the control group, participants conducted a cheating task after carrying out a task unrelated to public service. We found a non-monotonic effect of the treatment on misbehavior. We believe that our treatment had an effect on mitigating dishonest behaviors as well as promoting loss-averse behaviors. We infer that the priming effect promoted the dishonest behavior in future public servants in the loss domain.

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  • Takeshi Ojima & Manami Tsuruta & Reona Hayashi & So Morikawa, 2021. "Dishonesty and Future Public Servant's Identity," TUPD Discussion Papers 4, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University.
    • Handle: RePEc:toh:tupdaa:4
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