Blar i forfatter "Birkelund, Johan"

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    • A culture of cheating: The role of worldviews in preferences for honesty 

      Birkelund, Johan; Cherry, Todd; McEvoy, David M. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-11)
      We explore the role of cultural worldviews in preferences for honesty using a coin-flipping task in an online experiment. Two treatments are conducted, one in which cheating has only private benefits and one in which cheating benefits the public. While we find no differences in behavior by worldviews across treatments, we find that observed differences in dishonesty between genders is significantly ...

    • Honesty in economic experiments 

      Birkelund, Johan (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-12-14)
      This thesis investigates preferences for honesty in economic experiments. Preferences for honesty have attained a fair amount of attention in the last couple of decades, from multiple areas within the social sciences, including economics. This thesis may serve as an introduction to the field. First, it provides an introduction to experiments in economics, before it dives into how economists conduct ...

    • Institutional inequality and individual preferences for honesty and generosity 

      Birkelund, Johan; Cherry, Todd (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-10)
      This paper reports on an experiment that investigates how inequality in advantage affects individual preferences for honesty and generosity. In a two-stage experiment, subjects first earn money according to self-reported production, which can include honest and dishonest reports. Subjects then play the dictator game and decide how much, if any, of their earnings to share with an anonymous recipient. ...

    • The Lunch effect. Can it result in biased grading at universities? 

      Birkelund, Johan (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-12-01)
      Examining exam results from an oral exam at a Norwegian university, reveals that there may be supporting evidence for the existence of a lunch-effect. Results suggests that censors are making the “easy” choices right before lunch, as compared with right after. The results are both a support to Danziger et al. (2011a) and to the existing literature on biased grading in general.