Abstract: Alessandro Bucciol (University of Verona and Netspar), Simona Cicognani (Free University of Bozen),  Natalia Montinari (University of Bologna) 

The decision to cheat involves intertemporal decision making as well as an assessment of the risk about being discovered. We run a lab experiment to study the connection between time preferences and cheating at the individual level, controlling for individuals' risk attitudes; our hypothesis is that the willingness to cheat is higher among individuals who attribute more importance to the present. Our experiment, designed to preserve anonymity, also allows us to record socio-demographic details and information on logic ability,overconfidence and a number of psychological traits such as altruism and self-control. We observe widespread cheating, and robust evidence of a negative correlation between cheating and time discounting. Cheating also turns out to be positively correlated with over-confidence.