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Intra-Generational Trust - a Semi-Experimental Study of Trust Among Different Generations

Holm, Jerker LU and Nystedt, Paul LU (2005) In Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 58(3). p.403-419
Abstract
From a public database in Sweden we obtained a subject pool consisting of one group of 20 years old and another group exactly 50 years older. The groups participated in a mail-based trust game, in which the young cohort exhibited more trust than the older one. Subjects significantly preferred to place trust in co-players of their own cohort and of the female sex. When amounts sent and proportions returned in the mail-based game are compared with other trust games conducted in standard laboratory environments, it is found that the mail-based game does not seem to generate extreme distributions.
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trust game, cohort effect, experiments, social capital
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Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
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58
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403 - 419
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Elsevier
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0167-2681
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10.1016/j.jebo.2003.10.013
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  series       = {{Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization}},
  title        = {{Intra-Generational Trust - a Semi-Experimental Study of Trust Among Different Generations}},
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