tavernePotters,JanStoop,Jan2025-02-012025-02-012016-08Potters, J & Stoop, J 2016, 'Do cheaters in the lab also cheat in the field?', European Economic Review, vol. 87, pp. 26-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.03.0040014-2921ORCID: /0000-0003-3670-4512/work/6492291710.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.03.004https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14602/65523In this paper, we study the correlation between cheating in the lab and cheating in the field. We conduct a laboratory experiment using a variant of the Mind game (Jiang, 2013). Payoffs above a certain threshold are indicative of cheating behavior. Subjects are paid their earnings by bank transfer. A fraction of the subjects is deliberately paid more than their earnings. We send subjects a reminder e-mail stating their earnings and asking them if they have received their payment. We find a significant correlation of 0.31 between cheating in the lab and in the field. Subjects with higher payoffs in the Mind game are also less likely to report the overpayment. Our results speak to the lab-field generalizability of cheating behavior.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesslaboratory experimentnatural field experimentcheatingC91 - Laboratory, Individual BehaviorC93 - Field ExperimentsD63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and MeasurementArticleGeneral rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. - Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. - You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain - You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal" Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84964969839open12892628308989https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/8c1bd6ff-853f-4872-8e27-ba56447c480a(c) Universiteit van TilburgPotters, Jan§0000-0003-3670-4512Stoop, Jan§0000-0001-9718-4851