Fare-dodging in the lab and the moral cost of dishonesty

Zhixin Dai, Fabio Galeotti and Marie Claire Villeval
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Zhixin Dai: Renmin University of China = Université Renmin de Chine
Fabio Galeotti: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - EM - EMLyon Business School - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marie Claire Villeval: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - EM - EMLyon Business School - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Abstract We examine the educative role played by parents in social norm transmission. Using a field experiment, we study whether parents enforce and comply more with norms when their children are present compared to when they are not. We compare similar parents when or after they drop off or pick up their children at school. We find that parents accompanying children, in contrast to parents alone, are more likely to punish norm violators and to provide help to strangers when there is no violation. They also tend to substitute more direct punishment with withholding help as a means of indirect punishment.

Date: 2019
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Published in The Economic Journal, 2019, 133 (650), pp.245-265. ⟨10.1016/B978-0-12-815857-9.00004-2⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-815857-9.00004-2

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