To encourage worker productivity offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to delay gratification can negatively impact performance. We report data from...

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...

We test the correlation between time preferences and cheating at the individual level. In our experiment, cheating increases the earnings of those who commit it and only entails a moral cost. We are the first to measure both the propensity to cheat and time preferences at the individual level,...

We test the correlation between time preferences and cheating at the individual level. In our experiment, cheating increases the earnings of those who commit it and only entails a moral cost. We are the first to measure both the propensity to cheat and time preferences at the individual level,...