Cheats want government jobs, research finds The students who appeared to have cheated were 6.3% more likely to say they wanted to work in government, the researchers found. In another task, students were asked to divide up a sum of rupees between themselves and a charity of their choice. For each rupee they donated, the sum given to the charity would double. Those who held on to more of the rupees for themselves were again more likely to want to want to work in government jobs, the study found. Rema Hanna, an associate professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, suggested that if people regarded government jobs as "corrupt," those who are honest "might not want to get into that system." She and co-author Shing-yi Wang, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, wrote: "Overall, we find that dishonest individuals - as measured by the dice task - prefer to enter government service. Importantly, we show that cheating on this task is also predictive of fraudulent behaviours by real government officials.