TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Garbarino, Ellen
AU  - Slonim, Robert
AU  - Villeval, Marie Claire
        TI  - A Method to Estimate Mean Lying Rates and Their Full Distribution
        PY  - 2018/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11798
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11798
        AB  - Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies to correct for sampling errors. This method estimates the full distribution of lying when agents privately observe the outcome of a random process (e.g., die roll) and can misreport what they observed. It provides a precise estimate of the mean and confidence interval (offering lower and upper bounds on the proportion of people lying) over the full distribution, allowing for a vast range of statistical inferences not generally available with existing methods.
        KW  - experimental economics
KW  - dishonesty
KW  - lying
KW  - econometric estimation
KW  - sampling errors
        ER  -