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Nobody likes a rat : on the willingness and consequences of reporting lies
Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matt - 2012
prevalent and reporting is nonexistent. -- lying ; lying aversion ; whistleblowing ; social norms ; dishonesty … for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a … say in who joins their group. We find that enough individuals are willing to report lies such that in fixed groups lying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665545
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Business ethics in organizations : an experimental examination of whistleblowing and personality
Bartuli, Jenny; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2016
The present paper suggests an innovative experimental design to study the nature and occurrence of whistleblowing in an … is a strong predictor for whistleblowing. Further, employees who are more altruistic and more aware of ethical issues are … more likely to refrain from supporting fraud and report wrongdoing. With the foci on research exploring individual and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531925
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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449225
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Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation
Isler, Ozan; Gächter, Simon - 2021
Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects in honesty and cooperation and tested the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801396
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More women in tech? : evidence from a field experiment addressing social identity
Del Carpio, Lucía; Guadalupe, Maria - 2018
This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational choices. We implement two field experiments with potential applicants to a five-month software-coding program offered to women from low-income backgrounds in Peru and Mexico. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925155
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Conformism, social norms and the dynamics of assimilation
Olcina Vauteren, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821187
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The effect of self-awareness and competition on dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the … of our core tasks to further explore the interactions between self-awareness, (dis)honesty and competition. We also test …-awareness helps to lower dishonesty in the future. However, in tasks that are competitive in nature becoming more aware of past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494900
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Students' cheating as a social interaction : evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program
Lucifora, Claudio; Tonello, Marco - 2012
We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the effects on students' achievements. We exploit a...
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Trust and cheating
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656612
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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009
assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we … fraud ; benefit morale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845503