Individual level evidence of dishonesty and the gender effect

Lana Friesen and Lata Gangadharan ()

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 3, 624-626

Abstract: We study dishonesty in an individual task experiment. In contrast to the existing literature, we collect participant level data. We find that men are not only more likely to be dishonest than women, they are also more dishonest.

Keywords: Dishonesty; Individual decision making; Experiment; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.08.005

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