Data and Code for: Trust and Promises over Time

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Florian Ederer, Yale University; Frederic Schneider, University of Cambridge

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Promises_over_Time_replication_script.do text/x-stata-syntax 38.6 KB 04/10/2020 02:34:AM
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Project Citation: 

Ederer, Florian, and Schneider, Frederic. Data and Code for: Trust and Promises over Time. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-07-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E118729V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Using a large-scale hybrid laboratory and online trust experiment with and without pre-play communication, we investigate how the passage of time affects trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. Communication (predominantly through promises) raises cooperation, trust, and trustworthiness by about 50 percent. This result holds even when three weeks pass between the time of the trustee’s message/the trustor’s decision to trust and the time of the trustee’s contribution choice and even when this contribution choice is made outside of the lab. Delay between the beginning of the interaction and the time to reciprocate neither substantially alters trust or trustworthiness nor affects how subjects communicate.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms trust; promises; trustworthiness; persistence; delay
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      C72 Noncooperative Games
      C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
      D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States, Switzerland
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 11/10/2014 – 10/6/2017
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 11/10/2014 – 10/6/2017
Universe:  View help for Universe Subject pools for experiments at the University of Zurich behavioral economics laboratory and the Yale University School of Management behavioral laboratory
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) experimental data

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