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ECONOMICS LETTERS
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109574
Keywords
Socially Desirable Response; Impression management; Self-deceptive enhancement; Field experiment; Compliance
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- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) [ASEM/2012/073]
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We use multidimensional measures of socially desirable response (SDR) to reduce the bias introduced by respondents' need for approval from interviewer (Impression Management - IM) or to perceive oneself favorably (Self-Deceptive Enhancement - SDE). Using data from a field experiment, we show that (1) SDE explains misreporting of compliance status, (2) controlling for SDE effectively eliminates the bias resulting from using wrongly reported compliance and (3) controlling for IM does not correct for the bias introduced by SDR. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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