英文文献：The Market for Essays
英文文献作者：Burton, Michael P.,Rigby, Dan
英文文献摘要：
We investigate the market in bespoke essays from commercial providers which students buy to submit at their University. We conduct choice experiments at 3 universities to investigate students’willingness to enter the market. Half of the sample reveal a willingness to buy. We identify valuations of essays of varying grade and how these values decay as students’ assessments of their own abilities, and the penalty if caught, increase. A choice experiment over monetary gambles yields individual-speci…c risk aversion estimates which signi…cantly a¤ect the probability that a student will buy, as does having English as their …rst language.