TY  - UNPD
A1  - Kröll, Markus
A1  - Rustagi, Devesh
T1  - Shades of dishonesty and cheating in informal milk markets in India
T2  - SAFE working paper series ; No. 134
N2  - Intrinsic motivation for honesty is perceived as an important determinant of large and persistent variation in cheating behavior. However, little is known about its actual role due to challenges in obtaining precise measures of motivation for honesty, as well as field outcomes on cheating. We fill these gaps using a unique setting of informal milk markets in India. A novel behavioral experiment, which combines a standard die roll task with Bluetooth technology, is used to measure motivation for honesty of milkmen at both extensive and intensive margins. We then buy milk from the same milkmen and show that cheating in the field, measured by the amount of water added to milk, widens significantly with a milkman’s degree of dishonesty. Additional analyses show that conventional binary measure of motivation for honesty suffers from measurement errors, resulting in underestimation of this association.
T3  - SAFE working paper - 134 
KW  - motivation for honesty
KW  - cheating
KW  - informal markets
KW  - die game milk
KW  - India
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40066
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-400667
UR  - http://safe-frankfurt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/editor_common/Research/Working_Paper/SAFE_WP_134_2.pdf
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -