E. I. Borisova, A. A. Peresetsky APPLIED ECONOMETRICS / ПРИКЛАДНАЯ ЭКОНОМЕТРИКА Прикладная эконометрика, 2016, т. 44, с. 119–130. <...> E. I. Borisova, A. A. Peresetsky 1 Statistical evaluation of student cheating We suggest an original method of student cheating evaluation based on the comparison of students’ grades in exams in class, home assignments and experimental homework. <...> The data for the study is collected from the survey of 2012–2013 sophomores of the International College of Economics and Finance at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. <...> At the end of the course in Statistics in addition to standard assignments (homework and exams) students were given experimental homework with a ban on cooperation among them. <...> The violation of this rule was qualified as cheating. <...> The scale of cooperation is measured and then tested through the stochastic frontier technique; it reveals connection with the GPA level, students’ expectations of the cheaters’ share and students’ moral norms. <...> We also find different behavioral patterns for high and low performing students as well as country specific context of student cheating behavior. <...> Our paper offers an original method of indirect evaluation of student cheating. <...> In addition to classical exams and homework assignments, we gave the students an experimental homework assignment with a ban on their cooperation, and then proposed a measure of the violation of this rule. <...> In literature on student cheating the authors most often use the measure of selfreported cheatN ing, i.e. behavior stated by students themselves (see, for example, literature review in (Crown, Spiller, 1998)). <...> Thus, the expectations of cheater’s share could be dependent on the reporting student’s behavior. 1 Borisova Ekaterina — National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; eborisova@hse.ru. <...> Peresetsky Anatoly — National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; aperesetsky@hse.ru. <...> Society and science Наука и образование 119 umerous studies show that student cheating is a widely spread phenomenon both in developed and developing countries. <...> According to some reports (Fendler, Godbey, 2016) more than half of students are involved in some kind of dishonest academic behavior, Do secrets come out? 2016, 44 <...>