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the willingness to lie. In a laboratory experiment, we compare the lying behavior of high-endowment participants with low … endowment lie more than those who receive the low endowment. In contrast, when income is determined by a random draw, lying is … less deserving individuals are discouraged from lying because they believe that other individuals are more deserving than …
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dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being … others’ dishonesty (With and Without Information). We first find that dishonesty falls in the Very High treatment. Second …
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This paper studies the implications of agents signaling their moral type in a lying game. In the theoretical analysis …, a signaling motive emerges where agents dislike being suspected of lying and where some types of liars are more … particular on partial lying, where some agents dishonestly report a non payoff-maximizing report. I discuss the relationship with …
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which accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to exploit lying aversion by …
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Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. In this paper, we investigate whether preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines...
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leadership performance, precisely estimating the absence of a gender leadership gap. We further show that this result is …
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this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …
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experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study …The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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