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

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Holm, Håkan () (Department of Economics, Lund University)
Nystedt, Paul () (Department of Economics, Linköping University)
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.

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Paper provided by Lund University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2002:16.

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Length: 32 pages
Date of creation: 31 May 2002
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005, pages 403-419.
Handle: RePEc:hhs:lunewp:2002_016

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Keywords: Trust game; social capital; cohort effect; experiments;

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