Does market participation promote generalized trust? Experimental evidence from Southern Africa

Shephard Siziba and Erwin Bulte

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 1, 156-160

Abstract: Does market participation promote generalized morality and trust, as postulated by some recent theories? We use experimental data from Zimbabwe and Mozambique to probe into one specific component of this question, and find evidence to the contrary. The short-term effect of market integration appears to be to lower generalized trust. However, this finding is not robust across all countries.

Keywords: Trust; Generalized morality; Market integration; Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 B52 D03 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.05.003

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