Rational and Biased Trust

Abigail Barr

Development and Comp Systems from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but expect those with more children to be less as opposed to more trustworthy, and females to be less and the associationally active to be more trustworthy when they are neither. Trustors do not account for the negative impact on trustworthiness of various recent negative experiences and the positive impact of involvement in voluntary work, full time work, and indigenousness.

Keywords: trust; trustworthiness; expectations; field experiment; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D84 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2004-09-28
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