Tropic Trust versus Nordic Trust: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania and Sweden

Anders Danielson and Hakan Holm
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Anders Danielson: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden

No 2003:6, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Undergraduates in Tanzania and Sweden participated in one Trust game, one Dictator game, and answered a standard set of survey questions relating to trust. In both countries we detected a strong and significant relation between Dictator donations and proportions returned in Trust games, which indicates that unconditional distribution preferences matter in Trust game behaviour. Furthermore, in Sweden evaluations of unrevealed Dictator donations significantly predicted the amount sent in Trust games. The predictive power of survey trust questions differed between countries: in Sweden, but not in Tanzania a plausible relation between survey trust and trust behaviour was found

Keywords: trust; Trust game; reciprocity; altruism; experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 C90 D70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2003-05-06
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Published in Economic Journal, 2005, pages 505-532.

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