Dishonesty in developing countries – What can we learn from experiments?*

Shuguang Jiang and Marie Claire Villeval

Chapter 4 in Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, 2025, pp 51-74 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter reviews the recent literature on cheating and corruption to demonstrate the value of experimental methods for studying dishonesty in developing countries. Emphasizing the diversity of experimental methods, the chapter highlights the contributions of laboratory and field experiments to measuring cross-country differences and identifying select causes of corruption and cheating. This body of literature has provided evidence of the causal effects of social norms, institutions, group identity, and social status concerns. Moreover, the existing research has also delivered practical policy recommendations for ethics-related development problems.

Keywords: Dishonesty; Corruption; Developing countries; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800885363
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