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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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dimensions: volunteerism and honesty. We use representative samples from five major economies of the Euro area: France, Germany … always in line with these assessments. Assessments of honesty show strong evidence of social projection: Participants expect …
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also pay less than the price or not pay at all. We conduct an experiment to study honesty in this market. The results show … that appealing to honesty increases payments, whereas reminding the customers of the legal norm has no effect. Furthermore …, appealing to honesty does not affect the behavior of the dishonest. These findings suggest that some people have internalized an …
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We study the external validity of a standard laboratory measure of cheating. The results show that cheating in the lab significantly predicts classroom misbehavior in middle and high school students.
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By enriching a principal-agent model it is shown that the introduction of monetary incentives may reduce an agent?s motivation. In a first step, we allow for the possibility that some agents stick to unverifiable agreements. The larger the fraction of reliable agents, the lower powered will then...
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By enriching a principal-agent model it is shown that the introduction of monetary incentives may reduce an agent's motivation. In a first step, we allow for the possibility that some agents stick to unverifiable agreements. The larger the fraction of reliable agents, the lower powered will then...
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When looked at individually there is little reason to think that economists lack integrity and are dishonest. Yet, when we look at academic papers written by economists we can see biases. This paper tries to reconcile these two observations by arguing that the constraints the profession sets on...
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We study the external validity of a standard laboratory measure of cheating. The results show that cheating in the lab significantly predicts classroom misbehavior in middle and high school students.
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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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In our experiment, a dictator game variant, the reported outcome of a die roll determines the endowment (low/high) in a subsequent dictator game. In one treatment the experimenter is present and no cheating is possible, while in another subjects can enter the result of the roll themselves. Moral...
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