Replication data for: Preferences for Truthfulness: Heterogeneity among and within Individuals
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Rajna Gibson; Carmen Tanner; Alexander F. Wagner
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Project Citation:
Gibson, Rajna, Tanner, Carmen, and Wagner, Alexander F. Replication data for: Preferences for Truthfulness: Heterogeneity among and within Individuals. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112597V1
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Summary:
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We conduct an experiment assessing the extent to which people trade off the economic costs of truthfulness against the intrinsic costs of lying. The results allow us to reject a type-based model. People's preferences for truthfulness do not identify them as only either "economic types" (who care only about consequences) or "ethical types" (who care only about process). Instead, we find that preferences for truthfulness are heterogeneous among individuals. Moreover, when examining possible sources of intrinsic costs of lying and their interplay with economic costs of truthfulness, we find that preferences for truthfulness are also heterogeneous within individuals.
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A13 Relation of Economics to Social Values
C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
A13 Relation of Economics to Social Values
C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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