Logo of Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinLogo of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
edoc-Server
Open-Access-Publikationsserver der Humboldt-Universität
de|en
Header image: facade of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
View Item 
  • edoc-Server Home
  • Schriftenreihen und Sammelbände
  • Fakultäten und Institute der HU
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
  • Discussion papers of interdisciplinary research project 373 / Sonderforschungsbereich 373
  • View Item
  • edoc-Server Home
  • Schriftenreihen und Sammelbände
  • Fakultäten und Institute der HU
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
  • Discussion papers of interdisciplinary research project 373 / Sonderforschungsbereich 373
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
All of edoc-ServerCommunity & CollectionTitleAuthorSubjectThis CollectionTitleAuthorSubject
PublishLoginRegisterHelp
StatisticsView Usage Statistics
All of edoc-ServerCommunity & CollectionTitleAuthorSubjectThis CollectionTitleAuthorSubject
PublishLoginRegisterHelp
StatisticsView Usage Statistics
View Item 
  • edoc-Server Home
  • Schriftenreihen und Sammelbände
  • Fakultäten und Institute der HU
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
  • Discussion papers of interdisciplinary research project 373 / Sonderforschungsbereich 373
  • View Item
  • edoc-Server Home
  • Schriftenreihen und Sammelbände
  • Fakultäten und Institute der HU
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
  • Discussion papers of interdisciplinary research project 373 / Sonderforschungsbereich 373
  • View Item
2003-04-23Buch DOI: 10.18452/3604
On Representative Trust
Bellemare, Charles
Kröger, Sabine
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. Thereby a main focus is determining its variation across groups with different individual characteristics. In this paper we combine the virtue of laboratory experiments and survey data analysis. We present results from a novel experiment conducted on a representative sample of the Dutch population. The advantages of this combination of methods are to shed light on four almost undocumented yet important issues in trust economics. Our results can briefly be summarized as follows. We do not find evidence of a participation selectivity bias which is a serious concern for laboratory experiments which rely almost exclusively on volunteer participants. Contrary to the existing literature, we find that stated trust measures correlate with experimental trust. The differences in parameter estimates across both measures are significant, but do not hold a jointly test. We also find that the age and education profiles of trust are opposite to those of reciprocal behavior. Finally, we find that the choice of proxy variable for social capital matters greatly, leading to very different inferences.
Files in this item
Thumbnail
24.pdf — Adobe PDF — 313.1 Kb
MD5: f0aa3a32c5402959f3e637d86fe2fbb0
Cite
BibTeX
EndNote
RIS
InCopyright
Details
DINI-Zertifikat 2019OpenAIRE validatedORCID Consortium
Imprint Policy Contact Data Privacy Statement
A service of University Library and Computer and Media Service
© Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
 
DOI
10.18452/3604
Permanent URL
https://doi.org/10.18452/3604
HTML
<a href="https://doi.org/10.18452/3604">https://doi.org/10.18452/3604</a>