Individual level evidence of dishonesty and the gender effect

Economics Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 624-626

  Friesen, Lana ^a   Gangadharan, Lata ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dishonesty; Experiment; Gender; Individual decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865403148     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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