Inter-ethnic trust and reciprocity: results of an experiment with small businessmen

Trust and Identity in a Small, Post-Socialist, Post-Crisis Society

“…See Greif (1989). Bouckaert and Dhaene (2004) report trust among businessman from different ethnic origins in the same city in contemporary Belgium.…”

The Pay-What-You-Want game: What can be learned from the experimental evidence on Dictator and Trust Games?

“…Social distance can be considered to be low if both players are of the same nationality or the same ethnicity. Bouckaert and Dhaene (2004) conducted a TG with Turkish and Belgian businessmen from Ghent and found no effect of ethnic origin. A possible explanation for this is that all subjects share the same identity, namely being businessman from Ghent.…”

Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh

“…Second, efficient risk sharing is difficult to be achieved in fractionalised communities, given the limited availability of social sanction (Miguel and Gugerty, 2005) and lower altruism (Bouckaert and Dhaene, 2004;Charness and Gneezy, 2008). 6 Therefore, while the household consumption in non-fractionalised communities, where efficient risk sharing can be achieved, is affected only by the covariate component (community-level) of disaster shock, those in fractionalized communities cannot cope with the idiosyncratic (household-level) shock and therefore suffer from both covariate and idiosyncratic shocks.…”

“…Social sanction cannot be imposed effectively in such communities (Miguel and Gugerty, 2005). Furthermore, fractionalisation leads to the decline in social preference (Bouckaert and Dhaene, 2004;Charness and Gneezy, 2008) and social capital La Ferrara, 2000, 2002). Criminologists also claim that fractionalisation is a driver of social disorganisation (Shaw and McKay, 1942;Kornhauser, 1978;Sampson, 1987).…”