Substance abuse and workplace fraud: evidence from physicians

We examine the relation between worker substance abuse and workplace fraud in a sample of medical doctors. Relative to their peers, we observe that doctors engaging in substance abuse are between 50 and 100 times more likely to commit fraud in a given year. This result is consistent with research su...

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Главные авторы: Millar, Melanie (Автор) ; White, Roger M. (Автор) ; Zheng, Xin (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2023
В: Journal of business ethics
Год: 2023, Том: 183, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 585-602
Другие ключевые слова:B G40
B Impulsivity
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Delay discounting
B Fraud
B Substance Abuse
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Итог:We examine the relation between worker substance abuse and workplace fraud in a sample of medical doctors. Relative to their peers, we observe that doctors engaging in substance abuse are between 50 and 100 times more likely to commit fraud in a given year. This result is consistent with research suggesting that substance abuse both creates financial pressures and impairs the functioning of cognitive self-regulatory mechanisms. Our results are robust in within-subject tests and between-subject tests, as well as in tests using instrumental variables that exploit exogenous variation in the state-level availability of opioids, a commonly abused substance.
ISSN:1573-0697
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-022-05065-6