ECIN Replication Package for "Whoever you want me to be: personality and incentives"

This workspace contains the data and Stata code necessary to replicate, "Whoever you want me to be: personality and incentives," published in Economic Inquiry. The files also include the ztree programs that were used to conduct the experiment.<br><br>Abstract:<br>What can employers learn from personality tests when applicants
have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a within-subject, laboratory
experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for
misrepresentation. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately
correlated with non-incentivized measures in all treatments. When test-takers
are given a job ad indicating that an extrovert (introvert) is desired,
extroversion measures are positively (negatively) correlated with IQ. Among
other characteristics, only locus of control appears related to faking on
personality measures. Our findings highlight the identification challenges in
measuring personality and the potential for correlations between incentivized
personality measures and other traits.<br>