Trustworthiness and social capital in South Africa: Analysis of actual living standards data and artifactual field experiments

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 695-722

  Carter, Michael R ^a   Castillo, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEGAL SYSTEM; LIVING STANDARD; LOW INCOME POPULATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79958828579     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660000     Document Type: Article

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