The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment … a trust game. In a second experiment, we elicit social appropriateness norm of actions in the bribery game and the …, are less likely to trust than those in an isomorphic role in the ultimatum game. We also uncover the underlying mechanism …

How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust … country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings … from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS trust question captures expectations about others' trustworthiness …