Titre
A city-wide experiment on trust discrimination
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Falk. A.,
Auteure/Auteur
Zehnder. C.,
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
0047-2727
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2013-04
Volume
100
Première page
15
Dernière page/numéro d’article
27
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This paper reports evidence from a city-wide field experiment on trust. About 1000 inhabitants of Zurich take part in a trust experiment, in which first movers can condition their investments on the residential districts of second movers. First movers differentiate their investments systematically depending on where in Zurich the second mover lives. The observed discrimination pattern is robust as indicated by additional data collected in a newspaper study and a laboratory experiment. Economic status seems to be key for a district's reputation: first movers invest more if second movers live in high-income districts. Investments into districts are positively correlated with the corresponding willingness to repay, which indicates that first movers correctly anticipate the relative trustworthiness of inhabitants of different districts. Furthermore, we find that people trust strangers from their own district significantly more than strangers from other districts. This in-group effect is, at least partly, driven by more accurate beliefs about the trustworthiness of in-group members.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_379374F6AE7E
Date de création
2013-01-27T22:38:10.450Z
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2025-05-20T20:40:01Z
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BIB_379374F6AE7E.P001.pdf
Version du manuscrit
preprint
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PID Serval
serval:BIB_379374F6AE7E.P001
URN
urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_379374F6AE7E0
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