Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 364-382

  Sutter, Matthias ^a   Kocher, Martin G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Experiment; Inequity aversion; Reciprocity; Trust; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147124675     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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