What is it about?
This paper is about the levels of trust among smallholder farmers in Nicaragua who participated in a group based rural development intervention compared to those who did not participate. Trust is measured using a lab-in-field economic experiment, namely the trust game, and trust related survey questions. We find that more trusting individuals seem to be participating in the groups promote by the project, we do not find that individuals participating in groups not promoted by an external intervention are more trusting.
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Why is it important?
We discuss several motivations for individuals to join groups, particularly when promoted by development interventions and conclude that these motives can affect whether collective action project impacts are likely tio be sustainable in the long term.
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It was a great pleasure to design and implement this research and to work with my coauthor and project partners in Nicaragua. This research has lead to interest to further explore the relationship between trust and group interventions in other settings.
Alexandra Peralta
University of Adelaide
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This page is a summary of: Trust, Trust Attitudes and Group Membership, Journal of International Development, June 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jid.3294.
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