Intra-Generational Trust - a Semi-Experimental Study of Trust Among Different Generations

Hakan Holm and Paul Nystedt ()
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Paul Nystedt: Department of Economics, Linköping University, Postal: Department of Economics, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden

No 2002:16, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: From a public database in Sweden we obtained a subject pool consisting of one group 20 years old and another group that was exactly 50 years older. The groups participated in a mail-based trust game. In the trust game the young cohort exhibited significantly more trust than the old cohort did. Furthermore, subjects preferred to place trust in co-players of their own cohort. When amounts sent and proportions returned in the mail-based game are compared with other trust games conducted in standard laboratory environments it is found that the mail-based game does not seem to generate extreme distributions.

Keywords: Trust game; social capital; cohort effect; experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 C90 D70 J10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2002-05-31
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Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005, pages 403-419.

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