Trust and age: An experiment with current and former students

Ben Greiner and Anita Zednik

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 181, issue C, 37-39

Abstract: We examine differences in trust and trustworthiness across age groups by running a trust game experiment with current students and alumni of a large Austrian university. We find linear age effects, in that older adults are more trusting and more trustworthy than younger participants. We detect no gender effect in terms of trustingness, but observe that females are more trustworthy than males.

Keywords: Trust; Age; Social preferences; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D91 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.04.004

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