Would you Bribe your Lecturer? A Quasi-experimental Study on Burnout and Bribery in Higher Education.

ABSTRACT: Bribery is a complex and critical issue in higher education (HE), causing severe economic and societal harm. Traditionally, most scholarship on HE corruption has focused on institutional factors in developing countries and insights into the psychological and motivational factors that drive HE bribery on the micro-level mechanisms are virtually non-existent. To close this research gap, this study investigates the connection between study-related burnout and university students' willingness to offer bribes to their lecturers to pass important exams. Conducting a vignette-based quasi-experimental replication study with 624 university students in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands we find that university students in three countries differentiate sharply between different shades of bribery a

SUBMITTER: Weißmuller KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8638650 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature