Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/178496 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
cege Discussion Papers No. 346
Publisher: 
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege), Göttingen
Abstract: 
In this paper, we shed light on the different moral costs of dishonesty and stealing. To accomplish this, we set up a die-rolling task which allowed participants to increase their own payout through dishonesty or theft. The results show that participants have fewer reservations about dishonesty compared to stealing, which implies higher intrinsic costs for stealing. We found that gender contributes to this effect, as women distinguish significantly between lying and stealing, while men do not.
Subjects: 
Lying
Deception
Stealing
Laboratory Experiment
Behavioral Economics
JEL: 
C91
D63
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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