Exhibit 1173 ยท Journal article
Sustaining Honesty in Public Service: The Role of Selection
Dishonest individuals are more pecuniarily motivated and self-select out of public service into higher-paying private sector jobs.
In Denmark, survey-experiment evidence of strong self-selection of more honest people into public service, opposite to the Indian result; higher public pay would attract more dishonest candidates. Abstract read (Crossref).
- Source
- Barfort, Harmon, Hjorth and Olsen, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11(4):96-123
- Date
- November 2019
- Quoted from
- Abstract
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20170688
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Standing note: replication-in-spirit of Hanna and Wang in a low-corruption country; survey-experiment, not behavior in office. Pairs with Hanna and Wang to show selection is context dependent.