Glaeser, Edward L.; Laibson, David I.; Scheinkman, José A. - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (2000) 3, pp. 811-846
We combine two experiments and a survey to measure trust and trustworthiness - two key components of social capital. Standard attitudinal survey questions about trust predict trustworthy behavior in our experiments much better than they predict trusting behavior. Trusting behavior in the...