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...

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,...

We run a laboratory experiment testing the correlation between time preferences and cheating at the individual level. In our experiment cheating increases the earnings of those who commit it, and it only entails a moral cost for the cheater. By presenting the first study that measures at the...