Context-dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries

David Pascual-Ezama; Toke R. Fosgaard; Juan Camilo Cardenas; Praveen Kujal; Robert Veszteg; Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño; Brian Gunia; Doris Weichselbaumer; Katharina Hilken; Armenak Antinyan; Joyce Delnoij; Antonios Proestakis; Michael D. Tira; Yulius Pratomo; Tarek Jaber-López; Pablo Brañas-Garza

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.020

Context-dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries

David Pascual-Ezama^*, Toke R. Fosgaard, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Praveen Kujal, Robert Veszteg, Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Brian Gunia, Doris Weichselbaumer, Katharina Hilken, Armenak Antinyan, Joyce Delnoij, Antonios Proestakis, Michael D. Tira, Yulius Pratomo, Tarek Jaber-López, Pablo Brañas-Garza

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Abstract

Policy makers use several international indices that characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of citizens varies across countries. This paper explores the honesty among citizens across 16 countries with 1440 participants. We employ a very simple task where participants face a trade-off between the joy of eating a fine chocolate and the disutility of having a threatened self-concept because of lying. Despite the incentives to cheat, we find that individuals are mostly honest. Further, international indices that are indicative of institutional honesty are completely uncorrelated with citizens' honesty for our sample countries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	379-386
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	116
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.020
Publication status	Published - 2015 Aug 1

Keywords

Corruption
Cultural differences
Honesty

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics and Econometrics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Pascual-Ezama, D., Fosgaard, T. R., Cardenas, J. C., Kujal, P., Veszteg, R., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Gunia, B., Weichselbaumer, D., Hilken, K., Antinyan, A., Delnoij, J., Proestakis, A., Tira, M. D., Pratomo, Y., Jaber-López, T., & Brañas-Garza, P. (2015). Context-dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116, 379-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.020

Pascual-Ezama, D, Fosgaard, TR, Cardenas, JC, Kujal, P, Veszteg, R, Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B, Gunia, B, Weichselbaumer, D, Hilken, K, Antinyan, A, Delnoij, J, Proestakis, A, Tira, MD, Pratomo, Y, Jaber-López, T & Brañas-Garza, P 2015, 'Context-dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 116, pp. 379-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.020

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