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Field Before After
Trial Status in_development completed
Last Published July 16, 2020 03:30 PM April 26, 2021 09:21 AM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date July 23, 2020
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) Clustering at the individual level (see below)
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 1260: 892 in wave 1 (see https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.5142-1.0) and 368 in wave 2.
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms Of the 892 in wave 1: 284 in control group, 205 in honesty group, 208 low dishonesty, 195 high dishonesty. Of the 368 in wave 2: 101 in control group, 76 in the honesty group, 104 low dishonesty, 87 high dishonesty.
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files No
Data Collection Completion Date July 23, 2020
Is data available for public use? No
Public analysis plan No Yes
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Papers

Field Before After
Paper Abstract We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis-honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the impact on behaviour in tasks that include the scope to lie. In the second wave we vary the degree of competitiveness in one of our core tasks to further explore the interactions between self-awareness, (dis)honesty and competition. We also test for the experimental demand effect in order to rule it out. Our results suggest that in non-interactive tasks, self-awareness helps to lower dishonesty in the future. However, in tasks that are competitive in nature becoming more aware of past dishonesty raises the likelihood of dishonesty in the future. In other words, we show when making people aware of their own past dishonesty can help to reduce dishonesty and when it might back-fire.
Paper Citation Ceren Bengu Cibik and Daniel Sgroi, The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty, IZA DP No. 14256, 2020.
Paper URL http://ftp.iza.org/dp14256.pdf
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