It's time to cheat!

Alessandro Bucciol, Simona Cicognani and Natalia Montinari

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2024, vol. 108, issue C

Abstract: We study the correlation between time preferences and cheating. In our experiment, cheating increases the earnings of those who commit it and only entails a moral cost. We are the first to measure both (a proxy for) the propensity to cheat and time preferences at the individual level, determining whether cheaters are more likely to be more present-biased or to have a higher discount factor. We observe widespread cheating, which prevails among subjects with present bias and overconfidence.

Keywords: Cheating; Time Discounting; Quasi-hyperbolic preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D81 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2023.102156

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