Using data from a unique household survey and an artefactual field experiment conducted in rural Bangladesh, this study evaluates the impact on trust in community members of incentive for risk-sharing arrangement between villagers. Risk sharing provides a major opportunity for cooperation in rural economies, and the experience of cooperation could facilitate trust. In order to test this hypothesis, this study characterizes the incentive for risk sharing by the patterns of exogenous income shocks in the real world and risk preference, and trust in community members is elicited experimentally. The empirical results from dyadic regression demonstrate that villagers connected by a stronger incentive form a higher level of trust
Risk is central in the study of rural development. To cope with risk, smallholder farmers rely on a ...
Historically, is has been common to use a so called general social survey (GSS) to investigate trust...
This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of...
Using data from a unique household survey and an artefactual field experiment conducted in rural Ban...
Although interpersonal trust is essential for socioeconomic development, the formation mechanism of ...
Trust levels, identified by some scholars to be a potential determinant of risky behaviours, may aff...
Broadly speaking, economic experiments and surveys have found trust to be much lower in Africa than ...
Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behav...
We analyze the correlation between survey-based measures of trust and behavior in the Trust Game in ...
Development projects frequently use the strategy of group formation to promote project interventions...
Trust plays a key role in promoting cooperation, exchanges, and interactions among individuals and t...
Trust is important for development but can be hard to build. In this paper, we report on experiments...
In this paper we use experimental data collected in rural Cameroon to quantify the effect of social ...
Using a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda we study how risk sharing influences investment behavi...
Risk-sharing is a fundamental form of economic behaviour. It can occur through formal insurance mark...
Risk is central in the study of rural development. To cope with risk, smallholder farmers rely on a ...
Historically, is has been common to use a so called general social survey (GSS) to investigate trust...
This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of...
Using data from a unique household survey and an artefactual field experiment conducted in rural Ban...
Although interpersonal trust is essential for socioeconomic development, the formation mechanism of ...
Trust levels, identified by some scholars to be a potential determinant of risky behaviours, may aff...
Broadly speaking, economic experiments and surveys have found trust to be much lower in Africa than ...
Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behav...
We analyze the correlation between survey-based measures of trust and behavior in the Trust Game in ...
Development projects frequently use the strategy of group formation to promote project interventions...
Trust plays a key role in promoting cooperation, exchanges, and interactions among individuals and t...
Trust is important for development but can be hard to build. In this paper, we report on experiments...
In this paper we use experimental data collected in rural Cameroon to quantify the effect of social ...
Using a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda we study how risk sharing influences investment behavi...
Risk-sharing is a fundamental form of economic behaviour. It can occur through formal insurance mark...
Risk is central in the study of rural development. To cope with risk, smallholder farmers rely on a ...
Historically, is has been common to use a so called general social survey (GSS) to investigate trust...
This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of...