Does market participation promote generalized trust? Experimental evidence from Southern Africa

作者：Siziba Shephard; Butte Erwin^*

来源：Economics Letters, 2012, 117(1): 156-160.

DOI：10.1016/j.econlet.2012.05.003

• Trust
• Generalized morality
• Market integration
• Trade

Does market participation promote generalized morality and trust, as postulated by some recent theories? We use experimental data from Zimbabwe and Mozambique to probe into one specific component of this question, and find evidence to the contrary. The short-term effect of market integration appears to be to lower generalized trust. However, this finding is not robust across all countries.

• 出版日期2012-10