Description
Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics provides a rigorous and comprehensive overview of dishonesty, presenting state-of-the-art research that adopts a behavioral economics perspective. Throughout the volume, contributors emphasize the effects of psychological, social, and cognitive factors on the decision-making process. In contrast to related titles, Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics emphasizes the importance of empirical research methodologies. Its contributors demonstrate how various methods applied to similar research questions can lead to different results. This characteristic is important because, of course, it is difficult to obtain reliable measures of dishonesty.- 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
Table of Contents
Section 1: Dishonesty in behavioral economics: An overview1. Dishonesty in behavioral economics: An overviewSection 2: Dishonesty among children and young adults2.1 Dishonesty in young children2.2 Dishonesty among children: Rural/urban status and parental migration2.3 What does a young cheater look like? An innovative approach2.4 Dishonesty among university students2.5 Cheating in academic exams: A field studySection 3: Dishonesty, individual, and social preferences3.1 Do economists lie more?3.2 Cheating and altruism by discipline3.3 Negative externalities of cheating: An experiment with charities3.4 Cheating: Perceptions and profit3.5 An experiment on conformity in deceptionSection 4: Dishonesty in daily life4.1 Fare-dodging in the lab and the moral cost of dishonesty4.2 The cost of being honest: Excessive change at the restaurant4.3 Prosociality and fiscal honesty: Tax evasion in Italy, United Kingdom, and Sweden4.4 Can upfront declarations of honesty improve anonymous self-reports of sensitive information?
