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Individuals around the globe experience different forms of material resource scarcity. A growing body of research has investigated how such scarcity affects moral economic behavior. Yet, findings remain mixed. In this pre-registered meta-analysis, we evaluate how material resource scarcity affects moral economic behavior. We analyze a comprehensive dataset including observations from 44 published and unpublished studies comprising a total of 6,921 respondents across four distinct types of material scarcity: financial scarcity, physiological scarcity, scarcity reminders, and lower social class. Our findings show that acute scarcity significantly increases the propensity to engage in unethical economic behavior. Importantly, however, the findings show no evidence that chronic experiences of scarcity in the form of low social class affect unethical economic behavior.