Academic economists behaving badly? A survey on three areas of unethical behavior

This article measures the degree to which academic economists have engaged in unethical behavior and the degree to which academic economists believe t he profession as a whole engages in unethical behavior: Three main types of unethical behavior are examined: (I) falsification of research; (2) exprop riation of graduate student research or including an undeserving co-author on a research paper; and (3) exchange of grades for gifts, money, or sex. U sing a unique data set gathered at the 1998 American Economic Association ( AEA) meetings, we find that there is a significant amount of misconduct, pa rticularly in the second category.