ECIN Replication Package for "Cheating Amongst Youth Offenders: How Peers and Their Social Status Influence Cheating"

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We conducted an experiment with 204 youth inmates to study how the
intrinsic psychological cost of cheating that was shaped by peers changed in-
mates’ cheating behavior. We find that innately dishonest inmates who naively
revealed their higher willingness to cheat indeed cheated more in the actual
game. When given the chance to observe an imperfect signal of whether a
peer cheated, only innately dishonest inmates followed this signal and cheated
more. This positive treatment effect increases with the saliency of the signal,
and becomes more pronounced when the cheating signal is from an influential
peer.

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