Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay

被引：166

作者：

Schechter, Laura ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Agr & Appl Econ, Madison, WI 53706 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION | 2007年 / 62卷 / 02期

关键词：

trust; risk aversion; experiment; Paraguay; gender; PREFERENCES;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jebo.2005.03.006

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Play in the traditional trust experiment depends both on trust beliefs and on levels of risk aversion. We ran two experiments with a diverse set of subjects in 15 villages of rural Paraguay, the traditional trust experiment and a new experiment measuring only risk aversion. We find that risk attitudes are highly predictive of play in the trust game. In addition, omitting risk aversion as a regressor in trust regressions significantly changes the coefficients of important explanatory variables such as gender and wealth. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：272 / 292

页数：21

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