RT Journal Article
T1 Context-dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries
A1 Pascual Ezama, David
A1 Fosgaardb, Toke R.
A1 Cardenas, Juan Camilo
A1 Kujald, Praveen
AB Policy makers use several international indices that characterize countries according to thequality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty ofcitizens varies across countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across 16countries with 1440 participants. We employ a very simple task where participants face atrade-off between the joy of eating a fine chocolate and the disutility of having a threatenedself-concept because of lying. Despite the incentives to cheat, we find that individuals aremostly honest. Further, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty arecompletely uncorrelated with citizens’ honesty for our sample countries
PB Elsevier
SN 0167-2681
YR 2015
FD 2015-05-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23721
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23721
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Junta de Andalucía
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025