Personal characteristics and lying: An experimental investigation

Jason Childs

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 121, issue 3, 425-427

Abstract: We explore the relationship between personal characteristics and the decision to lie to an anonymous partner in a cheap talk environment. We find that sex, age, grade point average, student debt, size of return, socioeconomic status, and average time spent in religious observation are not related to the decision to lie. A subject’s major of study, the marital status of their parents, whether or not they were raised by a single parent, religious importance and whether or not the subjects came to collect their pay were important explanatory variables.

Keywords: Experiment; Lying; Sex; Religion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 J1 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.09.005

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