implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …

implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …

Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample … of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first … trust other immigrants. Immigrants appear to be less trustworthy overall but this finding disappears when we control for …

representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and … power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …

raises the other players' beliefs about the donors' trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …

one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that …Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate … individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming trust beliefs about the same pool of potential partners - i.e., more …

Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades … claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test a … commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly unsusceptible …

paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …