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Volume 115 Issue 503 (April 2005)

Tropic Trust Versus Nordic Trust: Experimental Evidence From Tanzania And Sweden

Håkan J. Holm, Anders Danielson

 Data for Tanzania and Sweden are in files tanzaniadata.txt and swedendata.txt, respectively. They are formatted as tab-separated text files.

First column is ID-numbers used to pair subjects. ID n was paired to ID n + 100. In Sweden, subjects 1-29 and 101-129 participated in the experiment on November 27 and the rest on November 28.

Columns %Sent, %Rec, %RETURN and %DICT refer to the percentage sent, received, returned, and sent in the Dictator game, respectively. In swedendata.txt, %TRICT is the percentage offered in the Trictator Game. Male, Age and Siblings are self-explanatory. GSS TRust is the answer to the generalised trust question. TRIND is the trust index. Lend_Money is the frequency with which subjects lend money to friends. Self rep trustw is how subjects perceive their own trustworthiness. Column Strangers record how subjects respond to "These days you cannot trust strangers".

Precise definitions of the variables are in Appendix Table A1 of the paper; summary statistics are in Table A2.