TY - JOUR
T1 - Honesty toward the holy day
AU - Bar-El, Ronen
AU - Tobol, Yossef
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - We study the effect of religiosity, gender, and “day of the week”, on the level of honesty by conducting a die-under-the-cup experiment among religious and secular, female and male Jewish students. We show that the level of honesty among religious subject, males and females, increases as the day of the experiment is closer to the upcoming Saturday, the Jewish holy day. We also found that the “Saturday effect” does not exist among secular subjects. In addition, we found that the religious females show the highest level of honesty, especially on Thursday. Finally, we derive practical implication from our study.
AB - We study the effect of religiosity, gender, and “day of the week”, on the level of honesty by conducting a die-under-the-cup experiment among religious and secular, female and male Jewish students. We show that the level of honesty among religious subject, males and females, increases as the day of the experiment is closer to the upcoming Saturday, the Jewish holy day. We also found that the “Saturday effect” does not exist among secular subjects. In addition, we found that the religious females show the highest level of honesty, especially on Thursday. Finally, we derive practical implication from our study.
KW - Gender effect
KW - Holy day effect
KW - Honesty
KW - Religiosity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.socec.2017.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.socec.2017.02.005
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AN - SCOPUS:85015659326
SN - 2214-8043
VL - 68
SP - 13
EP - 17
JO - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
JF - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
ER -