Arbeitspapier

On Representative Trust

This paper combines an economic experiment with survey data to investigate determinants of trust and trustworthiness in the Dutch society. We contrast the inferences which can be made on the trust propensity using stated and revealed measures and we test for participation bias in our experiment. We find that middle aged and educated individuals trust relatively more but are relatively less trustworthy. The effect of age and religion on trust is shown to depend heavily on whether experimental or survey trust measures are used. We find no evidence of participation bias in any experimental decisions.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: SFB 373 Discussion Paper ; No. 2003,27

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
Design of Experiments: General
Subject
Measuring trust and trustworthiness
Experiments
Representative samples
Vertrauen
Social Capital
Experiment
Niederlande

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bellemare, Charles
Kröger, Sabine
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2003

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10050278
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bellemare, Charles
  • Kröger, Sabine
  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes

Time of origin

  • 2003

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