IS DISHONESTY CONTAGIOUS? |
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| Authors: | INNES ROBERT MITRA ARNAB |
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| Institution: | Innes: Professor of Economics, Tony Coelho Chair of Public Policy, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, CA 95344. Phone 209‐228‐4872, Fax 209‐228‐4007, E‐mail rinnes@ucmerced.edu |
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| Abstract: | When an individual believes that peers are predominantly untruthful in a given situation, is he/she more likely to be untruthful in that situation? We study this question in deception experiments patterned after Gneezy Gneezy U. “Deception: The Role of Consequences.” American Economic Review, 95, 2005, 384–94] and conducted in Arizona, California, and India. We find evidence that dishonesty is indeed contagious. (JEL D03) |
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