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Does poverty negate the impact of social norms on cheating?
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Abstract Cheating such as corruption and tax evasion is prevalent in the developing world; therefore, many interventions have been undertaken to reduce cheating in developing countries. Although some field evidence shows that poverty is correlated with cheating, the causal effect of poverty on cheating in th... mehr
Cheating such as corruption and tax evasion is prevalent in the developing world; therefore, many interventions have been undertaken to reduce cheating in developing countries. Although some field evidence shows that poverty is correlated with cheating, the causal effect of poverty on cheating in the field and the effectiveness of interventions for financially constrained people remain an open question. We present results from a lab-in-the-field experiment with low-income rice farmers in Thailand (N = 568), in which we, first, investigate the causal effect of poverty on cheating and, second, test whether poverty affects the effectiveness of a social-norm intervention to reduce cheating. We show poverty itself does not affect willingness to cheat. However, although a social-norm-reminder intervention reduced cheating when the population was richer (after harvest), it had no effect when the population was poorer (before harvest). Our results suggest that the timing of interventions to change behavior might matter.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Armut; soziale Norm; Intervention; Betrug; Thailand
Klassifikation
soziale Probleme
Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
cheating; lab-in-the-field experiment; lying
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 569-578
Zeitschriftentitel
Games and Economic Behavior, 124 (2020)
ISSN
1090-2473
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0