Preferences for Truth-telling with Johannes Abeler and Daniele Nosenzo

In this episode, we are joined by Johannes Abeler from the University of Oxford and Daniele Nosenzo from the University of Nottingham to discuss their 2019 Econometrica paper “Preferences for Truth-telling”. The authors first conduct a meta-analysis with data amalgamated from more than 90 studies across 47 countries and 44,000 participants. They then test the set of existing theories that seek to rationalise truth-telling behaviours by iteratively eliminating models that cannot explain the stylised facts yielded by their meta-analysis. The surviving set of models is further refined by their own experimental evidence. The authors have provided transparent and intuitive data visualisations of their main meta-analysis findings on the accompanying website.