Data, and Stata/R Replication Code for Duch, Laroze and Zakharov 2021
Lying is widespread, but for many people it entails moral costs. We investigate how these costs depend on the extent of lying. We observe over 1000 individuals from the U.K., Russia and Chile making over 10000 lying decisions, with the payoffs increasing in the extent to which the truth is distorted. We find that both incidence and extent of lying do not depend on the extrinsic benefit of lying. This is not consistent with the moral cost of lying being a smooth, increasing, and concave function of the extent of lying. This replication package includes:
Moral_Cost.pdf - the manuscript
Replication files/ - Replication files, figures and tables, including:
Replication files/mastern_final2021_new_new.dta - Stata data file
Replication files/replicate_final_2021.do - Replication .do file
Replication files/codebook_lies.docx - Codebook
Data/Moscow/Raw Data/ - raw data and Ztree modules for each of Moscow sessions
Data/Moscow/Screenshots/ - screenshots for Moscow sessions
Data/Oxford/Raw Data/ - raw data and Ztree modules for each of Oxford sessions
Data/Oxford/Screenshots/ - screenshots for Oxford sessions
Data/Santiago/Raw Data/ - raw data and Ztree modules for each of Santiago sessions
Data/Santiago/Screenshots/ - screenshots for Santiago sessions
Other/ - consent forms, protocol, IRB statement and erratum