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DOI:10.1145/1807406.1807464
Corpus ID: 53235445

@article{Erat2010WhiteL, title={White lies}, author={Sanjiv Erat and Uri Gneezy}, journal={Manag. Sci.}, year={2010}, volume={58}, pages={723-733}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:53235445}}

Sanjiv Erat, U. Gneezy
Published in Management Sciences 14 May 2010
Economics

It is found that women are more likely to tell an altruistic lie, but tend to tell fewer Pareto lies, and women are less likely than men to lie when it is costly to the other side.

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