
Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics
Description
Key Features
- Reviews many key issues in the literature around lying, cheating, fraudulence, and deception
- Covers both state-of-the-art methods and data collection mechanisms (e.g., laboratory experiments, field experiments, online surveys)
- Discusses novel interdisciplinary research findings and from them proposes new avenues of research
Readership
Graduate and postgraduate students in economics and across social science attending either a course on experimental methods, with a focus on dishonest behaviors, or a course in ethical behaviors. Policy-makers interested in designing interventions aimed at minimizing dishonest behavior in society
Table of Contents
Section 1: Dishonesty in behavioral economics: An overview
1. Dishonesty in behavioral economics: An overviewSection 2: Dishonesty among children and young adults
2.1 Dishonesty in young children
2.2 Dishonesty among children: Rural/urban status and parental migration
2.3 What does a young cheater look like? An innovative approach
2.4 Dishonesty among university students
2.5 Cheating in academic exams: A field studySection 3: Dishonesty, individual, and social preferences
3.1 Do economists lie more?
3.2 Cheating and altruism by discipline
3.3 Negative externalities of cheating: An experiment with charities
3.4 Cheating: Perceptions and profit
3.5 An experiment on conformity in deceptionSection 4: Dishonesty in daily life
4.1 Fare-dodging in the lab and the moral cost of dishonesty
4.2 The cost of being honest: Excessive change at the restaurant
4.3 Prosociality and fiscal honesty: Tax evasion in Italy, United Kingdom, and Sweden
4.4 Can upfront declarations of honesty improve anonymous self-reports of sensitive information?
Product details
- No. of pages: 360
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: June 4, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128158579
- eBook ISBN: 9780128158586
About the Editors
Alessandro Bucciol
Affiliations and Expertise
Natalia Montinari
Affiliations and Expertise
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