Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children

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Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children. / Bucciol, Alessandro; Piovesan, Marco.

Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2008.

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Bucciol, A & Piovesan, M 2008 'Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children' Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

APA

Bucciol, A., & Piovesan, M. (2008). Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

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Bucciol A, Piovesan M. Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. 2008.

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Bucciol, Alessandro ; Piovesan, Marco. / Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2008.

Bibtex

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