Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?
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Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries? / Ferreira, Ines Afonso Roque; Jones, Edward Samuel; Mouco, Jorge.
2020.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?
AU - Ferreira, Ines Afonso Roque
AU - Jones, Edward Samuel
AU - Mouco, Jorge
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of behavioural dishonesty, distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic factors.Using an incentivized dice game, which yields direct estimates of the propensity to cheat, we find that the effects of demographic and personality traits (e.g., gender, work ethic) generally run in the opposite direction to previous studies.Contingent situational factors, including temperature, humidity, and the number of participants in the room, are associated with large differences in dishonesty—for example, on warm and humid days the predicted cheating rate increased by 14 percentage points.However, in line with theories of trait activation, these extrinsic effects are highly heterogeneous and interact with intrinsic factors, which we believe constitutes an important area for further research.Working Paper
AB - We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of behavioural dishonesty, distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic factors.Using an incentivized dice game, which yields direct estimates of the propensity to cheat, we find that the effects of demographic and personality traits (e.g., gender, work ethic) generally run in the opposite direction to previous studies.Contingent situational factors, including temperature, humidity, and the number of participants in the room, are associated with large differences in dishonesty—for example, on warm and humid days the predicted cheating rate increased by 14 percentage points.However, in line with theories of trait activation, these extrinsic effects are highly heterogeneous and interact with intrinsic factors, which we believe constitutes an important area for further research.Working Paper
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - cheating
KW - dice game
KW - dishonest behaviour
KW - Mozambique
KW - personality traits
KW - temperature
M3 - Working paper
VL - 2020/98
T3 - W I D E R. Working Papers
BT - Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?
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