Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics

Alessandro Bucciol is an Associate Professor of Econometrics at the University of Verona (Italy). He received an MSc in Statistical and Economic Sciences and a PhD in Economics at the University of Padua, and spent research periods at MIT and the University of Amsterdam. His research interests span across household finance, economic policy analysis, behavioral economics, and in general applied microeconometrics. He published articles on these topics in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Review of Finance, and other international journals. Natalia Montinari is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. She received an MSc in Economics at the University of Bologna, and a PhD in Economics at the University of Padua, and spent research periods at the Max Planck Institute of Economics and Lund University. Her research interests span across the design of incentives in organizations in the presence of reciprocal workers, the development of other regarding preferences, affirmative action policies, and in general experimental and behavioral economics. She published articles on these topics in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Experimental Economics, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, and other international journals.

• Section 1: Dishonesty in behavioral economics: An overview1. Dishonesty in behavioral economics: An overviewSection 2: Dishonesty among children and young adults2.1 Dishonesty in young children2.2 Dishonesty among children: Rural/urban status and parental migration2.3 What does a young cheater look like? An innovative approach2.4 Dishonesty among university students2.5 Cheating in academic exams: A field studySection 3: Dishonesty, individual, and social preferences3.1 Do economists lie more?3.2 Cheating and altruism by discipline3.3 Negative externalities of cheating: An experiment with charities3.4 Cheating: Perceptions and profit3.5 An experiment on conformity in deceptionSection 4: Dishonesty in daily life4.1 Fare-dodging in the lab and the moral cost of dishonesty4.2 The cost of being honest: Excessive change at the restaurant4.3 Prosociality and fiscal honesty: Tax evasion in Italy, United Kingdom, and Sweden4.4 Can upfront declarations of honesty improve anonymous self-reports of sensitive information?