Fasting and honesty: Experimental evidence from Egypt.
This paper examines the effect of religious fasting on truth‐telling using a laboratory experiment in Egypt. While fasting‐induced religiosity may promote truth‐telling, the physiological and psychological changes during fasting, due to alimentary abstention and self‐control exertion, may reduce hon...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 1353 - 1369 |
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