Are Survey measures of Trust Correlated with Experimental Trust? Empirical Evidence from Cameroon

Alvin Etang Ndip (), David Fielding and Stephen Knowles ()
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Alvin Etang Ndip: Yale University, Economic Growth Centre

No 1016, Working Papers from University of Otago, Department of Economics

Abstract: We analyze the correlation between survey-based measures of trust and behavior in the Trust Game in two villages in Cameroon. Some participants play the Trust Game with people from their own village, and others with people from a neighboring village. The survey that the participants complete includes questions about trust and social distance that reflect the experimental treatment. Some measures of survey-based trust are correlated with experimental trust, but the level of correlation is not uniform.

Keywords: Trust Game; social capital; surveys (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 O12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2010-11, Revised 2010-11
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