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Direct linkMajilla, Tanmoy; Rieger, Matthias – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Scams involving university degrees are flourishing in many emerging markets. Using a resume experiment in India, this paper studies the impact of "gray degrees," or potentially bought academic credentials from questionable universities, on callback rates to job applications. The experiment varied the type of degree (no, gray, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees, Deception, Job Applicants
