Pascual-Ezama, D.; Fosgaard, T.; Cardenas, J.; Kujal, P.; Veszteg, R.; Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B.; Gunia, B.; Weichselbaumer, D.; Hilken, K.; Armenak, A.; Delnoij, J.; Proestakis, A.; Tira, M.; Patromo, Y.; Jaber-López, T.; Branas Garza, P.

Context-dependent cheating: experimental evidence from 16 countries

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

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Title	Context-dependent cheating: experimental evidence from 16 countries
Authors	Pascual-Ezama, D., Fosgaard, T., Cardenas, J., Kujal, P., Veszteg, R., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Gunia, B., Weichselbaumer, D., Hilken, K., Armenak, A., Delnoij, J., Proestakis, A., Tira, M., Patromo, Y., Jaber-López, T. and Branas Garza, P.
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 sixteen 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.
Keywords	Honestycorruptioneconomic experimentscultural differences
Publisher	Elsevier
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
ISSN	0167-2681
Online	21 May 2015
Print	01 Aug 2015
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Accepted	25 Apr 2015
Output status	Published
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Copyright Statement	©2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.020
Language	English

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