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The Material Basis of Cooperation: How Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour
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- Agneman, Gustav (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Political Science,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- Falco, Paolo (author)
- University of Copenhagen
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- Joel, Exaud (author)
- University of Dar es Salaam
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- Selejio, Onesmo (author)
- University of Dar es Salaam
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- 2022-11-30
- 2023
- English.
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In: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1468-0297 .- 0013-0133. ; 133:652, s. 1265-1285
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- Trusting behaviour is a cornerstone of cooperation and, hence, economic performance, not least in poorer communities where economic transactions often rely on informal agreements. But trusting behaviour is potentially costly since the counterpart may decide to defect. In this study, we investigate whether food scarcity influences the level of trusting behaviour in rural Tanzania by leveraging quasi-experimental variation in food supply induced by the harvest. Through a lab-in-the-field experiment, we document that farmers display lower levels of trusting behaviour during the lean season compared to the abundant season and show that the difference is explained by variation in food scarcity.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
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