TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Abeler, Johannes
AU  - Nosenzo, Daniele
AU  - Raymond, Collin
        TI  - Preferences for Truth-Telling
        PY  - 2016/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10188
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10188
        AB  - Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material payoff. We combine data from 72 experimental studies in economics, psychology and sociology, and show that, in fact, people lie surprisingly little. We then formalize a wide range of potential explanations for the observed behavior, identify testable predictions that can distinguish between the models and conduct new experiments to do so. None of the most popular explanations suggested in the literature can explain the data. We show that only combining a preference for being honest with a preference for being seen as honest can organize the empirical evidence.
        KW  - private information
KW  - honesty
KW  - truth-telling
KW  - lying
KW  - meta study
        ER  -