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Rational and Biased Trust: An Investigation Based on Experimental Data from Urban Ghana
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Rational and Biased Trust:
An investigation based on experimental data from
urban Ghana
Abigail Barr
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University of Oxford
August, 2004
Prepared for delivery at the
2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
September 2 - September 5, 2004.
Copyright by the American Political Science Association
Abstract: This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but expect those with more children to be less as opposed to more trustworthy, and females to be less and the associationally active to be more trustworthy when they are neither. Trustors do not account for the negative impact of various recent, bad experiences and the positive impact of voluntary work, full time work, and indigenousness on trustworthiness. Keywords: trust; trustworthiness; expectations; field experiment; Ghana. JEL classifications: C93, Field Experiments; D84, Expectations; Z13, Social Norms and Social Capital.
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I am grateful to the Russell Sage Foundation for funding this research. Thank you also to my
experimental participants and research assistants in Ghana for their hard work, and to members of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, for their useful comments. All remaining errors are my own.
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Rational and Biased Trust:
An investigation based on experimental data from
urban Ghana
Abigail Barr
1
University of Oxford
August, 2004
Prepared for delivery at the
2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
September 2 - September 5, 2004.
Copyright by the American Political Science Association
Abstract: This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and
resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased.
Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately
take account of the religiousness of trustees, but expect those with more children to be
less as opposed to more trustworthy, and females to be less and the associationally
active to be more trustworthy when they are neither. Trustors do not account for the
negative impact of various recent, bad experiences and the positive impact of
voluntary work, full time work, and indigenousness on trustworthiness.
Keywords: trust; trustworthiness; expectations; field experiment; Ghana.
JEL classifications: C93, Field Experiments; D84, Expectations; Z13, Social Norms
and Social Capital.
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I am grateful to the Russell Sage Foundation for funding this research. Thank you also to my
experimental participants and research assistants in Ghana for their hard work, and to members of the
Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, for their useful comments. All
remaining errors are my own.
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