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Participants report dice outcomes after receiving an unrelated luck-based income, under exogenous (income set by coin toss) and endogenous (participants choose the winning side) treatments. Results show lying rises when contemporaneous luck-based income is high, is unaffected by perceived agency, and shows no correlation with prior luck-based income, suggesting individual heterogeneity may drive dishonesty.","Does Honesty Respond to Unrelated Luck?* Diogo Geraldes† Franziska Heinicke‡ Duk Gyoo Kim§  \nDecember 27, 2024  \nAbstract  \nWe conducted a lab experiment to examine (1) whether luck-based income influences honesty in a subsequent, unrelated decision,(2) whether the perceived agency over an uncertain event affects the interplay between luck and honesty, and (3) whether accumulated previous luck-based incomes influence honesty. Specifically, participants selfreport a dice roll outcome after receiving an unrelated luck-based income. Additionally, we manipulated participants’ perceived control over the luck-based income. In the exogenous luck treatment, computerized coin tosses determine the luck-based income. In the endogenous luck treatment, computerized coin tosses also determine the luck-based income, but the participants choose the coin’s winning side beforehand. Our main findings are as follows: lying behavior increases when contemporaneous luck-based income is high, remains unaffected by perceived agency, and does not correlate with prior luckbased income. Furthermore, we find evidence suggesting that individual-specific heterogeneity may significantly influence dishonesty, contrasting with the common view that context is the primary driver.  \nJEL Classification: C91, D03, D82  \nKeywords: Laboratory experiment, Lying, Luck, Honesty, Agency  \n*The authors thank Johannes Abeler, David Gill, Agne Kajackaite, Sang-Hyun Kim, Jaeok Park, Daniel Parra, John Spraggon, and the conference and seminar participants at the University of Mannheim, Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University, and 2023 Korea’s Allied Economic Associations Annual Meeting for their helpful comments.  \n†Corresponding author. CESifo, Geary Institute, and School of Economics - University College Dublin, Ireland. ORCID: 0000-0002-5211-673X. Email: [diogogeraldes@gmail.com](diogogeraldes@gmail.com)  \n‡ORCID: 0000-0002-7510-5849 . Email: [franziheinicke@gmail.com](franziheinicke@gmail.com)  \n§ CESifo and School of Economics-Yonsei University, South Korea. ORCID: 0000-0002-8906-5630 . Email:  \n[kim.dukgyoo@gmail.com](kim.dukgyoo@gmail.com)  \n1 Introduction  \nPeople often have income components that are partially or entirely determined by luck, and they perceive their luck in different ways. How does luck-based income affect unrelated, self-serving dishonest actions? In this paper, we investigate whether and to what extent luck-based income affects the moral value of honesty in a separate, unrelated individual decision where self-serving dishonest actions are possible. More specifically, we examine whether (1) low income resulting from an unlucky outcome,(2) perceived agency in the luckbased income, and (3) prior low incomes resulting from unlucky outcomes, lead individuals to lie more in a separate, unrelated decision. To the best of our knowledge, our paper is the first study in experimental economics to assess the effect of unrelated luck on lying behavior.  \nA vast body of literature shows that people have preferences for honesty. Even in situations where unverifiable lying could secure additional benefits, individuals do not fully exploit this option (Abeler et al., 2019 ; Gerlach et al., 2019) . For example, in several experiments where an individual privately rolls dice and gets paid more when the self-report of dice roll outcome is higher, the average report is significantly larger than 3.5 (complete honesty) yet significantly smaller than 6 (complete lying) . Arguably, a possible explanation for this preference for honesty is the desire to protect one’s self-image and avoid appearing dishonest to oneself or others (Gneezy et al., 2018) . Specifically, the so-called justification strategies enable individuals to lie while preserving a positive self-image. As these strategies are context-specific, lying behavior can vary considerably across different situations (Shalviet al., 2015 ; Markowitz and Levine, 2021) . 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