TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ruffle, Bradley
AU  - Tobol, Yossef
        TI  - Clever Enough to Tell the Truth
        PY  - 2016/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9860
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9860
        AB  - We conduct a field experiment on 427 Israeli soldiers who each rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome. For every point reported, the soldier received an additional half-hour early release from the army base on Thursday afternoon. We find that the higher a soldier's military entrance score, the more honest he is on average. We replicate this finding on a sample of 156 civilians paid in cash for their die reports. Furthermore, the civilian experiments reveal that two measures of cognitive ability predict honesty, whereas general self-report honesty questions and a consistency check among them are of no value. We provide a rationale for the relationship between cognitive ability and honesty and discuss its generalizability.
        KW  - high non-monetary stakes
KW  - honesty
KW  - cognitive ability
KW  - soldiers
        ER  -