Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295986 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10897
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Academic honesty is crucial for scientific advancement, yet replication crises and misconduct scandals are omnipresent. We provide evidence on scientists' truth-telling from two incentivized coin-tossing experiments with more than 1,300 scientists. Experiment I, with predominantly European and North-American scientists, shows that fewer scientists over-report winning tosses when their professional identity is salient. The global Experiment II yields heterogeneous effects. We replicate Experiment I's effect for North-American scientists, but find the opposite for Southern European and East-Asian scientists. Over-reporting correlates with publication metrics and country-level measures of academic and field-experimental dishonesty, suggesting that country-level honesty norms also guide truth-telling by scientists.
Subjects: 
truth-telling
lying
identity
science
cross-country
experiment
JEL: 
C93
D82
K42
J45
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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