Liar Liar: Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Confirmation‐Reports on Dishonesty

Duncan, Denvil; Li, Danyang

doi:10.1002/soej.12244

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“…Treatment group participants complete a confirmatory report in which they can either accept a randomly selected pre-filled value between one and six or replace it. Duncan and Li (2018) find that the confirmatory report format increases the number who report rolling a six (with a zero payoff) compared to the self-reporting format. Further, they find that pre-filled values increase honest reporting.…”

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“…At the same time, when the pre-filled income field underestimates the subject's income, compliance levels do not differ from those when the income field is left blank. Lastly, in a context-free experiment, Duncan and Li (2018) design a task in which control group participants self-report the outcome of a six-sided die roll (for which payoffs are increasing in the number rolled, except for the number six which receives a zero payoff). Treatment group participants complete a confirmatory report in which they can either accept a randomly selected pre-filled value between one and six or replace it.…”

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Insurable Losses, Pre-filled Claims Forms and Honesty in Reporting

Morrison

Ruffle

2020

SSRN Journal

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We design a series of laboratory experiments to investigate the effects of purchasing insurance and of pre-filled claim forms on dishonesty in loss reporting. In our experiment, participants report the outcome of privately rolling two dice where the numbers rolled map to a payoff distribution with the possibility of losses in earned income. Prior to this reporting task, participants bid for a limited number of insurance contracts which issue an indemnity payment equal to each insured individual's reported loss. We find that dishonest reporting is significantly more prevalent among insured individuals relative to the uninsured, consistent with an 'entitlement bias'. Further we find that prefilling the reporting form with the most probable outcome only modestly constrains dishonest reporting among both insured and uninsured individuals. We explore reasons why prefilled forms should be applied with caution.

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Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Insurable Losses, Pre-filled Claims Forms and Honesty in Reporting

Morrison

Ruffle

2020

SSRN Journal

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“…Fochmann et al (2018) show in a laboratory experiment that a correct prefilling of income items enhances tax compliance compared to a setting without prefilling. In a neutral dice rolling experiment without tax framing and without audit or punishment, Duncan and Li (2018) find that confirmation reports (comparable to correct prefilling) have a positive effect on compliance behavior. However, dishonest behavior cannot be analyzed on an individual level.…”

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Combating overreporting of deductions in tax returns: prefilling and restricting the deductibility of expenditures

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We experimentally analyze three anti-tax-evasion mechanisms: (1) prefilling of deductions in tax returns, (2) restricting tax evasion opportunities by either disallowing or (3) limiting the deductibility of expenditures. We find that prefilling compared to blank forms reduces tax evasion. Cutting the number of tax evasion opportunities by disallowing the deductibility of expenditure items is an ineffective mechanism to combat tax evasion as individuals shift their tax evasion activities from the disallowed item to other non-restricted items. In contrast, our results suggest that just limiting the deductibility of expenditures avoids this evasion-shift-effect.

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“…Those laboratory experiments mostly focus on lying and share the following features: Gender differences are generally analyzed in terms of the frequency of lying (extensive margin) while omitting the size of the lie (intensive margin). Nonetheless, any deceiving decision entails both dimensions, namely whether to deceive and to what extent (Duncan & Li, 2018; Fries et al, 2021; Gneezy et al, 2018; Khalmetski & Sliwka, 2019). In most studies on lie detection, lies are not endogenous but artificially enforced (Holm & Kawagoe, 2010).…”

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Gender and deception: Evidence from survey data among adolescent gamblers

Guerra

Randon

Scorcu

2022

Kyklos

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We examine gender differences in adolescent gamblers' deception behavior towards their parents. The analysis is based on a unique cross-sectional survey conducted in 2014 in Italy including high school students aged 13 to 22 years old. We consider a subset of adolescents who actively played gambling games in 2013 (5,435 observations). We find that females are less likely to deceive than males, but they do so to a greater extent, i.e., they are more likely to use full-rather than partial-deception than males. This result is robust to controlling over an extended set of personal and parental characteristics, including the frequencies of play of different gambling games, monetary expenditure, age, school performance, place of residence, living with parents, parents' education and occupational status.Further analyses reveal that gender differences are particularly pronounced for good school performance, at 15 and 18 years or older, in areas where gambling is not as widespread, and for certain types of games such as on-site entertainment machines and luck games. Our findings reveal that females are not univocally more honest than males, and stress the importance of considering gender differences in deception for effective gambling prevention policies.

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Liar Liar: Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Confirmation‐Reports on Dishonesty

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

Insurable Losses, Pre-filled Claims Forms and Honesty in Reporting

Insurable Losses, Pre-filled Claims Forms and Honesty in Reporting

Combating overreporting of deductions in tax returns: prefilling and restricting the deductibility of expenditures

Gender and deception: Evidence from survey data among adolescent gamblers

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