Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Lund University, Department of Economics
No 2002:16: Intra-Generational Trust - a Semi-Experimental Study of Trust Among Different Generations
Håkan Holm () and Paul Nystedt ()
Additional contact information
Håkan Holm: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Paul Nystedt: Department of Economics, Linköping University, Postal: Department of Economics, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden
Abstract: From a public database in Sweden we obtained a subject pool consisting of one group 20 years old and another group that was exactly 50 years older. The groups participated in a mail-based trust game. In the trust game the young cohort exhibited significantly more trust than the old cohort did. Furthermore, subjects preferred to place trust in co-players of their own cohort. When amounts sent and proportions returned in the mail-based game are compared with other trust games conducted in standard laboratory environments it is found that the mail-based game does not seem to generate extreme distributions.
Keywords: Trust game; social capital; cohort effect; experiments
32 pages, May 31, 2002
- Published as
- Håkan Holm and Paul Nystedt, (2005), 'Intra-Generational Trust - a Semi-Experimental Study of Trust Among Different Generations', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol 58, no 3, pages 403-419
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