Perceived Differences in Parent-Child Education Expectations Increase Academic Cheating

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Zhang, Qian; Wang, Jianxin; Houser, Daniel
• 署名单位: Central South University; George Mason University
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.70023
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: propensity; COMMUNICATION; discrepancies; achievement; preferences; adjustment; incentives; beliefs; CHOICE; school

摘要

Academic cheating can detrimentally impact students' learning outcomes and increase the likelihood they will later behave unethically. To improve student learning outcomes, it is important to understand why students choose to cheat. Here we develop a model, based on guilt aversion and disappointment aversion, that predicts parent-child differences in educational expectations promote children's dishonesty. We test this prediction using a nationally representative survey of secondary school students in China (N = 6853). Our data reveal that children are substantially more likely to cheat when they perceive their parents as having either higher or lower educational expectations than the children have for themselves.