We test whether altruism is a significant confound of observed choices in the standard trust game. We allow for rich and poor trustees and examine whether, consistent with dominant altruism, trustors give more to the poor, or whether, consistent with dominant trust motives, trustors give no more to the poor than to the rich. This test is based on within-treatment and within-subject comparisons....

Trust as a concept and empirical measure has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades. However, gaps remain in our understanding of what exactly is measured by the different experimental and survey measures of trust, and how they relate to each other. In this paper, we demonstrate that the commonly used trust game captures trust in strangers, b...

Trust as a concept and empirical measure has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades. However, gaps remain in our understanding of what exactly is measured by the different experimental and survey measures of trust, and how they relate to each other. In this paper, we demonstrate that the commonly used trust game captures trust in strangers, b...