We specify and estimate an econometric model which separately identifies distributional preferences and the effects of perceived intentions on responder behavior in the ultimatum game. We allow the effects of perceived intentions to depend, among other things, on the subjective probabilities...

Because of its relation to economic growth, there is a policy interest in measuring social capital and average trust as its currently most important proxy.In this paper we measure societal trust and trustworthiness by combining the virtues of laboratory experiments and survey data and present...