The Korean Journal of Economic Studies
A Study on the Impact of Incentive Payment Method on Cheating and Performance
Sangjun Lee(Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training)Year 2013Vol. 61No. 4
Abstract
This paper analyzes the interaction between the cheating and performance depending on the type of incentive payments. We analyzed whether cheating was occurred by immoral people or whether social system like incentive made people commit cheating. In this study, We used a field experiment method. Were divided into four groups of incentive type of experiment participants(or subjects) who took part in the experiment for questionnaire study and analyzed how is changing the degree of their effort, personal misconduct and achievements along the flow of time by the group. The analytical method for this article was carried out in the panel -including random effect and fixed effect- and cross-sectional analysis, ANOVA and the Poisson regression. we can find that the more incentive strength is large, the more cheating is increased. Finally, we also investigated incentive affect monotonically to cheating and achievements of the individual.