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Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

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Johansson-Stenman, Olof () (Department of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University)
Mahmud, Minhaj () (Department of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University)
Martinsson, Peter () (Department of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University)

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Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social distance between Hindus and Muslims in the trust experiment in terms of fractions sent or returned, but the responses to the survey questions indicate significant differences: Hindus, the minority, trust other people less in general, and Hindus trust Muslims more than the other way around.

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Paper provided by Göteborg University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers in Economics with number 167.

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Date of creation: 31 Mar 2005
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Publication status: Forthcoming in Economica, 2009.
Handle: RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0167

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Keywords: social capital; trust; social distance; religion; trust game; field experiment; Bangladesh;

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C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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