Over the past decade, a large and growing body of experimental research has analyzed
dishonest behavior. Yet the findings as to when people engage in (dis) honest behavior are …

Efforts to identify and understand gender differences have a long history that has sparked
lively debate and generated much public interest. Although understanding gender …

We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000
school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance …

This paper studies lying. An agent randomly picks a number from a known distribution. She
can then report any number and receive a monetary payoff based only on her report. The …

We study how cheating behavior is affected by incentives. After replicating the finding in the
cheating game literature that lying does not increase with incentives, we show that this …

A large literature documents that women are different from men in their choices and
preferences, but little is known about gender differences in the boardroom. If women must be …

This paper studies the impact of gender quotas for corporate board seats on corporate
decisions. We examine the introduction of Norway's 2006 quota, comparing affected firms to …

This paper reviews the literature on gender differences in economic experiments. In the
three main sections, we identify robust differences in risk preferences, social (other …

A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is
to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that …

Sender-receiver games are simple models of information transmission that provide a
formalism to study the evolution of honest signaling and deception between a sender and a …