%0 Report
        %A Ruffle, Bradley
%A Tobol, Yossef
        %T Clever Enough to Tell the Truth
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9860
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9860
        %X 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.
        %K high non-monetary stakes
%K honesty
%K cognitive ability
%K soldiers