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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 403-419 |
| Journal | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Bibliographical note
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Health Economics and Forensic Medicine (Closed 2012) (013040050), Department of Economics (012008000)
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Free keywords
- trust game
- cohort effect
- experiments
- social capital
