Working Papers, Department of Economics, Lund University
No 2004:2:
Do You Trust Your Brethren? Eliciting Trust Attitudes and Trust Behavior in a Tanzanian Congregation
Anders Danielson and Hakan Holm ()
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; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: C90; D70; D78; (follow links to similar papers)
33 pages, January 23, 2004
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Danielson, Anders and Hakan Holm, (2007), 'Do You Trust Your Brethren? Eliciting Trust Attitudes and Trust Behavior in a Tanzanian Congregation', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 62, pages 255-271
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