Arbeitspapier

Parents' Marital Status, Psychological Counseling and Dishonest Kindergarten Children: An Experimental Study

The present paper reports the results of an experiment which studied the effects of parents' marital status (divorced or non-divorced) and psychological counseling (administered or not) on the honesty level of kindergarten children. Data on marital status and psychological counseling was anonymously provided by the kindergarten teachers and children's level of honesty was assessed by a flip-coin task which rewarded a self-reported favorable outcome. The experiment gave rise to two major results: first, children of divorced parents are less honest than children of non-divorced parents and second, psychological counseling helps improve honesty among children of divorced parents but fails to do so among children of non-divorced parents. No gender effect was found.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12616

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Thema
kindergarten children
dishonest behavior
flip coin task
psychological counseling

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Tobol, Yossef
Yaniv, Gideon
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Tobol, Yossef
  • Yaniv, Gideon
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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