Does stake size matter in trust games?

Olof Johansson-Stenman (), Minhaj Mahmud and Peter Martinsson

No 140, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: In a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh, the proportion of money sent decreased significantly with the stake size. Still, even with very large stakes few followed the conventional economic prediction and sent nothing.

Keywords: Trust; trust game; stake size; social capital; field experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2004-08-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe and nep-exp
Note: Published in Economics Letters, 2005, Vol. 88, p p. 365-369.
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Published as Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Minhaj Mahmud and Peter Martinsson, 'Does stake size matter in trust games?' in Economics Letters, 2005, pages 365-369.

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