| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20897 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20897 |
| On the Origins of Dishonesty: From Parents to Children | |
| Daniel Houser; John A. List; Marco Piovesan; Anya Savikhin Samek; Joachim Winter | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-02-02 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Acts of dishonesty permeate life. Understanding their origins, and what mechanisms help to attenuate such acts is an underexplored area of research. This study takes an economics approach to explore the propensity of individuals to act dishonestly across different economic environments. We begin by developing a simple model that highlights the channels through which one can increase or decrease dishonest acts. We lend empirical insights into this model by using an experiment that includes both parents and their young children as subjects. We find that the highest level of dishonesty occurs in settings where the parent acts alone and the dishonest act benefits the child rather than the parent. In this spirit, there is also an interesting effect of children on parents’ behavior: in the child’s presence, parents act more honestly, but there are gender differences. Parents act more dishonestly in front of sons than daughters. This finding has the potential of shedding light on the origins of the widely documented gender differences in cheating behavior observed among adults. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20897 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578571 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel Houser,John A. List,Marco Piovesan,et al. On the Origins of Dishonesty: From Parents to Children. 2015. |
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