Tropic Trust Versus Nordic Trust: Experimental Evidence From Tanzania And Sweden

Tropic Trust Versus Nordic Trust: Experimental Evidence From Tanzania And Sweden

Undergraduates in Tanzania and Sweden participated in one Trust game, one Dictator game, and answered a standard set of survey questions relating to trust. In both countries we detected a strong and significant relation between, Dictator donations and proportions returned in Trust games, indicating...

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Published in:The Economic journal (London) 2005-04, Vol.115 (503), p.505-532
Main Authors: Holm, Håkan J., Danielson, Anders
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Behavior
College students
Correlation analysis
Dictators
Donations
Economic motivation
Economic surveys
Economics
Economics and Business
Ekonomi och näringsliv
Endowments
Game theory
Games
Nationalekonomi
Polls & surveys
Questionnaires
Samhällsvetenskap
Social capital
Social Sciences
Society
Standard error
Studies
Sweden
Tanzania
Trust
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Summary:Undergraduates in Tanzania and Sweden participated in one Trust game, one Dictator game, and answered a standard set of survey questions relating to trust. In both countries we detected a strong and significant relation between, Dictator donations and proportions returned in Trust games, indicating that unconditional distribution preferences matter in Trust game behaviour. In Sweden incentive compatible evaluations of unrevealed Dictator donations significantly predicted the amount sent in Trust games. The predictive power of survey trust questions differed between countries: a plausible relation between survey trust and trust behaviour was found in Sweden but not in Tanzania.
ISSN:0013-0133
1468-0297
1468-0297