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Are Survey measures of Trust Correlated with Experimental Trust? Empirical Evidence from Cameroon

Etang, Alvin; Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen (Discussion Paper, 2010)

We analyze the correlation between survey-based measures of trust and behavior in the Trust Game in two villages in Cameroon. Some participants play the Trust Game with people from their own village, and others with people ...
Does social capital affect foreign aid allocations?

Knowles, Stephen (Discussion Paper, 2002)

This paper explores the issue of whether countries with high levels of social capital give more foreign aid than others. It is often argued that in countries with high levels of social capital (as measured, for example, ...
Survey Trust, Experimental Trust and ROSCA Membership in Rural Cameroon

Etang, Alvin; Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen (Discussion Paper, 2007)

Broadly speaking, economic experiments and surveys have found trust to be much lower in Africa than in industrialized countries. We analyze new experimental and survey results from rural Cameroon, where the average level ...
Which Institutions are Good for Your Health? The Deep Determinants of Comparative Cross-country Health Status

Knowles, Stephen; Owen, P. Dorian (Discussion Paper, 2008)

We extend the literature on the deep determinants of economic development by focusing on life expectancy, instead of income per capita, as an indicator of economic development, and by examining the role of informal, as ...
National environmental performance: a cross-sectional analysis

Grafton, R Quentin; Knowles, Stephen (Discussion Paper, 2002)

Using cross-country data from a sample of low, middle and high-income countries, the paper explores the empirical relationships between national measures of social capital (civic and public), social divergence and social ...
Bookworms versus Party Animals: An Artificial Labor Market with Human and Social Capital Accumulation

Farhat, Dan (Discussion Paper, 2011)

Data show that educated workers earn higher wages and face lower unemployment rates. Economists believe this is due to improvements in human capital while sociologists believe that social capital (or network formation) ...