@techreport{Bellemare2003Representative,
abstract = {Because of its relation to economic growth, there is a policy interest in mea-
suring 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.},
author = {Charles Bellemare and Sabine Kr\"{o}ger},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; Vertrauen; Social Capital; Experiment; Niederlande},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10050247},
number = {2003,24},
title = {On Representative Trust},
type = {Discussion papers of interdisciplinary research project 373},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22239},
year = {2003}
}
