Peter Schuhmann

Self-Reports of Student Cheating: Does a Definition of Cheating Matter?

The authors examine student cheating based on implicit and explicit definitions of cheating. Prior to being provided a definition of cheating, students reported whether they had cheated. Students were then provided a definition of cheating and asked to rereport their cheating behaviors. Results indicate that students do not understand what constitutes cheating and are much more likely to report cheating postdefinition. In addition, both pre- and postdefinition cheating behaviors are more prevalent for students with lower GPAs and for those who perceive more cheating by student peers. Alcohol consumption, seeing another student cheat, fraternity/sorority membership, and athletic membership also increase the likelihood of cheating. These findings are consistent with previous studies. On the basis of a sample of students who provided cheating data after a definition of cheating is communicated, the authors find that students who believe that punishment for cheating is relatively severe are less likely to report cheating and that students at institutions with well-publicized honor codes are less likely to admit to cheating compared with students at nonhonor code institutions.

Are tourists willing to pay additional fees to protect corals in Mexico

This paper seeks to determine if tourists visiting the Riviera Maya, Mexico, are willing to pay an entrance fee to enhance coral reef protection; and if so, how much would they pay? A discrete choice contingent valuation experiment with almost 400 visitors was used to determine a measure of compensating variation for contributing to a public trust to protect corals. Results suggest that there are significant possibilities for implementing a “coral fund” to raise revenues for coral protection programs in the Riviera Maya region of Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula. We estimate a mean willingness to pay (WTP) of over

The Value of Changes in Deer Season Length: An Application of the Nested Multinomial Logit Model

55.00. Additionally, all three estimation methods used produced relatively similar values for mean WTP, ranging from

Student Quantitative Literacy: Importance, Measurement, and Correlation with Economic Literacy

42 to

Willingness to pay to avoid high encounter levels at dive sites in the Caribbean.

58. With approximately five million visitors passing through the Cancun International Airport each year, this suggests that it may be possible to collect between

Estimates of the non-market value of sea turtles in Tobago using stated preference techniques

100 and

Determining the Propensity for Academic Dishonesty Using Decision Tree Analysis

400 million annually for coral reef management programs. Thinking very conservatively, if we take a

Challenge quizzes: A unique tool for motivation and assessment

20 fee and assume that only 50% of tourists would actually be willing to pay, that is still

Values Associated with Reef-Related Fishing in the Caribbean: A Comparative Study of St. Kitts and Nevis, Honduras and Barbados

50 million left on the table annually.

The pharmaceutical value of marine biodiversity for anti-cancer drug discovery

Increasing deer populations can be controlled through manipulatingharvest limits or season length. While such actions often result in benefitsto hunters, both motorists and the agricultural sector also benefit as alower deer population leads to fewer incidences of harmful human-deerencounters. Traditional recreation demand models are often employed toexamine the welfare implications of changes in daily hunting bag limits.Studies measuring the effects of changes in season length, however, arenoticeably absent from the literature. This study uses a nested randomutility model to examine hunter choice over site and season selection toderive the values of changes in season length.