Dishonesty in Developing Countries - What Did We Learn From Experiments?

Shuguang Jiang () and Marie Claire Villeval
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Shuguang Jiang: Shandong University

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

Keywords: Dishonesty; Corruption; Developing countries; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Utteeyo Dasgupta; Pushkar Maitra. Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, Edward Elgar Publishers, inPress

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