Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/178997 
Title: 

Who is cheating? The role of attendants, risk aversion, and affluence

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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1736
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This research integrates a standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey and finds relationships between individual characteristics and cheating behavior. We allow for attendance of others at the cheating experiment, addressing the "reputation to be seen as honest," finding there is indeed less cheating with attendants. Regarding the preference for "honesty," we find two related attitudes: stronger risk aversion increases the costs of cheating, i.e. behaving against the norm, while affluence makes cheating costly, as it allows behaving honestly. The underlying experiment in rural Thailand reproduces stylized facts of the cheating literature.
Subjects: 
cheating
individual characteristics
risk attitude
JEL: 
D01
D81
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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