Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children

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  • DP 08-28

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We ran an experiment with children to study the development of honesty with age. We asked each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) in a paper sheet. We rewarded only those who reported white. We found a fraction of reported whites significantly larger than 50%, uniformly across age groups. This suggests that some children cheat when cheating is profitable and they are not observed. In a second treatment we told children not to cheat. This reminder reduced the probability of reporting white by 18% on average, and significantly more in girls.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
UdgiverDepartment of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Antal sider20
StatusUdgivet - 2008

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JEL classification: C93; J13

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