The Material Basis of Cooperation: How Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour

Gustav Agneman, Paolo Falco, Exaud Joel, O. Selejio
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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.
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合作的物质基础:稀缺如何减少信任行为
信任行为是合作的基石,因此也是经济绩效的基石,尤其是在经济交易往往依赖非正式协议的较贫穷社区。但信任行为的潜在代价是高昂的,因为对方可能决定背叛。在本研究中,我们通过利用准实验性的粮食供应变化来研究粮食短缺是否会影响坦桑尼亚农村的信任行为水平。通过一项实地实验,我们证明,与丰饶季节相比,农民在丰饶季节表现出较低水平的信任行为,并表明这种差异可以通过食物稀缺的变化来解释。
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