Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Olof Johansson Stenman, Minhaj Mahmud and Peter Martinsson
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Olof Johansson Stenman: Göteborg University
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No KERP 2006/10, Keele Economics Research Papers from Centre for Economic Research, Keele University

Abstract: Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment among a random sample of Muslim and Hindu household heads in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social distance between Hindus and Muslims in the trust experiment in terms of fractions sent or returned, but the responses to the survey questions do indicate significant differences. Hindus, the minority, trust other people less in general, while Hindus trust Muslims more than Muslims trust Hindus.

Keywords: Social capital; Trust; Social distance; Religion; Trust game; field experiment; Bangladesh. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 Z12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2006-06
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Note: An earlier version (2005) of this paper is available as Working Paper No 167, Department of Economics, Göteborg University, 2005.
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