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Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material payoff. We combine data from 72 experimental studies in economics, psychology and sociology, and...
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A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing...
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We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre … of our core tasks to further explore the interactions between self-awareness, (dis)honesty and competition. We also test …
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preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines them. We experimentally measure preferences for honesty in a sample of …
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A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766384
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of evasion" damages state authority. Many evade tax payments, limiting the state's economic development...
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significantly more honest than those who participated later in the week. We derive practical implications for eliciting honesty. …
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honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset … the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of honesty is found among young religious females while the lowest is …
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We study the effect of religiosity, gender, and "day of the week", on the level of honesty by conducting under …-the-cup experiment among religious and secular, female and male Jewish students. We show that the level of honesty among religious … females show the highest level of honesty, especially on Thursday. Finally, we derive practical implication from our study. …
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measures of cognitive ability predict honesty, whereas general self-report honesty questions and a consistency check among them … are of no value. We provide a rationale for the relationship between cognitive ability and honesty and discuss its …
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