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Intra-Generational Trust - a Semi-Experimental Study of Trust Among Different Generations

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Summary, in English

From a public database in Sweden we obtained a subject pool consisting of one group of 20 years old and another group exactly 50 years older. The groups participated in a mail-based trust game, in which the young cohort exhibited more trust than the older one. Subjects significantly preferred to place trust in co-players of their own cohort and of the female sex. 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.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

403-419

Publication/Series

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volume

58

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Keywords

  • trust game
  • cohort effect
  • experiments
  • social capital

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0167-2681