• 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 ...
    • 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. ...