Do You Trust Your Brethren? Eliciting Trust Attitudes and Trust Behavior in a Tanzanian Congregation

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 2004:2, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The dominating subject pool in economic experiments is undergraduate university students. Reasons for this include access and convenience to experimentors, but the representativeness of this pool has not been fully established. This paper describes one possible method for using other subject pools. We also report the results from an experiment in which 145 subjects belonging to a specific church in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania were exposed to a Trust Game and a standard set of attitudinal survey questions in order to study trust and trustworthiness, two concepts that are likely to be at the core of the formation of social capital. Issues of method are discussed, and the results are contrasted with those from a Trust Game with Tanzanian undergraduate students as the subject pool.

Keywords: Trust Game; experiments; social capital; altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D70 D78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2004-01-23
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Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, pages 255-271.

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