Levels and Factors of Trust in Russian Regions: Results of an Online Experiment
Speaker Alexey Belyanin, PhD,Senior Research Fellow, International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioral Economics,National Research University Higher School of Economics
Trust is known as the most important factor in the efficiency of economic and social processes, characterizing the level of development of public institutions (Knack & Keefer, 1997). Traditional methods of measuring trust in survey research (for example, using the World Value Survey methodology) show a rather low level of trust in Russia compared to other countries (Algan & Cahuc, 2013). Unlike survey methods, the trust investment game (Berg e.a., 1995; Johnson and Mislin, 2011) provides an opportunity to measure the level of trust people have in each other under real incentives.In 2020, we conducted an online trust experiment in 12 Russian cities, representing all federal districts, with the participation of more than 2,000 people. The participants in the experiment - registered users of the Yandex-Toloka crowdsourcing platform - made decisions during the experiment with respect to participants from all cities (double strategic method), which made it possible to collect almost 25 thousand decisions and stimulated expectations regarding the decisions of opponents - the same participants from other cities.
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